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Some other and what mode and whether the said Robert Palk, William Barton and the said President and Members of the said Board of Trade or some and one and which of them did not by some mode or other directly or indirectly receive some share of the Profits or Emoluments which were made as the Bill alledges by means of the said Provision of Bengal Wound and Filature Raw Silk or some compensation or consideration on account of the same or whether this Defendant did not share the Profit which by the Bill it is alledged he made by the Filature and Bengal Wound Wilk by him as in the Bill provided or delivered in the said year one thousand Seven hundred and eighty eighty one or some and what part thereof with the said William Barton and the said President and members of the said Board of Trade or some and which of them either by paying some Sum or Sums of Money to the said William Barton or to the said
President