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1 July 1788

In the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal

Plea Side
The First Term in the twenty Eighth year of the Reign of King Gorge the third and in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Eight.

Fort William
[fold] Bengal
[fold] wit

Doorgapersaud Shaw by James Forbes his Attorney Complains of Lewis DaCosta who is a Settled Inhabitant of Calcutta and therefore Subject to the Jurisdiction of this Honorable Court of a Plea that he render to the said Doorgapersaud ~~~ Thirty four thousand Current Rupees of Lawful Money of Bengal which he owes to him and unjustly detains for that to wit that whereas the said Lewis DaCosta and One George Gearmaine on the ~fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four at Calcutta in Bengal aforesaid by their Contain Writing –