قراءة كتاب A Short View of the Laws Now Subsisting with Respect to the Powers of the East India Company To Borrow Money under their Seal, and to Incur Debts in the Course of their Trade, by the Purchase of Goods on Credit, and by Freighting Ships or other Mercantil

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A Short View of the Laws Now Subsisting with Respect to the Powers of the East India Company To Borrow Money under their Seal, and to Incur Debts in the Course of their Trade, by the Purchase of Goods on Credit, and by Freighting Ships or other Mercantil

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Stewart John

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these points certainly are. The questions concerning general warrants, and dispensing powers, were, in respect of these, of very inferior importance. It is the duty of every British subject to submit with reverence and veneration, to whatever obtains the sanction of the three branches of the Legislature; but when any particular bill appears, to common apprehension, to be of dangerous consequence, we are entitled to hope and presume that it never will pass into a law.

State of the East India Company's affairs with respect to the cash which will come into their treasury, and what must be issued from thence at different periods.

	Cash.	Dr.
		l.	s.	d.
1767. May 11.	To ballance of the account of the debts and credits of the East India Company in England, made out by the Court of Directors, estimated to the 11th of May 1767, after deducting the amount of the bonds from the debt side, and what the government owes to the Company from the credit side,	66,408
Sep.	To part of the produce of the cargo by the Asia, that will be exposed to sale,	30,000
1768. Jan.	To part of the produce of eleven ships, viz. from Bengal and Madras, three from Bombay, and one from Mocha, the prompt payment,	665,386	13	4
		761,794	13	4
	To this sale might be added the prompt of the sale of 1000 peculs of silk, by the fourteen ships from China,	150,000
	China ware, drugs, &c.	20,000
		170,000

	To balance to February 5, 1768, brought forward,	544,485	13	4
July 31.	To part of the produce of the eleven ships to be exposed at the March sale, the prompt,	332,693	6	8
	To the private trade,	22,000
	To transacting the annuitants,	1,687	1
		900,866	6	8

1767.	per Contra,	Cr.
Oct. 31.	By ¼ interest on the bonds and annuities, deducting what received from government, due at Michaelmas,	12,679
Dec. 25.	By ½ a year's salaries, and other contingencies,	5,000
1768.
Feb. 5.	By ½ a year's dividend on the

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