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Their duty to the complainants in entering into the same and whether they and such or some and which of them did not well know that the prices thereby agreed to be given to this Defendant greatly or in some and what degree exceeded the real Value of the said Silk and the prices at which the same might have been made or procured for the Complainants and whether this Defendant upon obtaining the said Contract of the fifteenth of June one thousand Seven hundred and eighty one or at some other and what time did not give or agree to give to give to the said President of the said Board of Trade and to the said William Barton Jacob Rider and the other members of the said Board of Trade or some or one and which of them or some Person or Persons and whom by name on their account or on account of some and which of them some certain Sum or Sums of money or some share of the Profits of the said Contract or some Valuable consideration or suffer them or some and which of them to retain for their own use and benefit or for the use of some and which of them some part or proportion of the money Bonds or Certificates
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