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Journal of the House of Lords
… a Million Sterling a Year; but that is of course in a great measure prospective. The Officers who are to be reduced … Yes. But not altered by the Regulations? Yes; there is a great deal of Mohamedan Law altered by the Regulations. We … Judicial Functions? Not altogether. I allude chiefly to a great Proportion of the Duty which now appertains to the …
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… of Territorial Secretary, in one Branch, correspond in a great measure with those of The Chancellor of Exchequer in … be performed,) I was appointed Deputy to both. There was a great Arrear of general Letters to the Court of Directors at … cannot be disputed on the Ground of one or more of the Co-proprietors not having agreed to the Sale, as in private …
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… Change from established Custom in India gives rise to a great deal of Dissatisfaction. The Land Rent is what they … they guided in forming that Estimate? They are left in a great degree to their own Discretion, but still Rules are … Articles suited to it, that would occasion a very great Expence. A very great Expence. Is not such a Survey …
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… much Smuggling? Yes; and with it its concomitant Evils, a great deal of Crime. The Smugglers, in Bodies from Fifty to a … (Mr. Johnson, a Partner in the Firm of Messrs. Shotton and Co. Bombay,) who had no less than Four Contracts; viz t. for … throughout India? As far as I know of India. On the Western Coast it is a Necessary of Life; so much so, that …
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… of Profit? The Market lately, I think, has been a great deal glutted; and although English Goods have fallen in … the Individual; my Purser, who is a Man of Business, had a great Fancy for Pekoe Tea, which is a scented Black Tea; Four … smaller Calibre than you had, would not you have a very great Advantage over her from your Height in the Water? Yes, …
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… in India, and what they were? [366] Certainly; very great. When I first entered the Service there was no Judicial … through the Agency of Zemindars, of whom there are a great many, hereditary and others; and if not through them, … look forward to very satisfactory Results. In Three large Western Zemindarries, settled in 1802, there has been, so far …
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… within that local Ambit. The Civil Jurisdiction is also co-extensive over all Persons within the local Ambit; but … Hindoos in Calcutta, that they considered it a very great Advantage to them to have both their Persons and … in Causes of any Weight, the Expences are exceedingly great. Does any Mode occur to you in which they could be …
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… your Connection with the China Trade? Baring, Brothers and Co. have managed as Agents for a House largely connected in … into this Country, under those Circumstances, to a great Amount? Probably to the Extent of Two or Three hundred … those Importations been conducted through your House? A great Portion of them. Have they been to any considerable …
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… by my late Employers, through Messrs. Baring, Brothers & Co. The subjoined Supplement to the above Account continues … refers? It has, in Quantity; the Fall in Goods has been so great that the Amounts do not appear so much increased as the … you not imagine that they have carried their Exports to as great an Extent already as under the Circumstances which have …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Wales Island, the Jurisdiction of the Court has been co-extensive with that of the Government. Can you state at … almost every Term, which is Four Times a Year. So that no great Arrear existed? There was never any Arrear, unless it … they were obliged to get a Court established, after very great Difficulties attending the previous State. What was the …