The Calcutta Gazette: Or, Oriental AdvertiserPrinted at the Military orphan Press by O. T. Cutter, 1865 |
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Page 183 - pain of forfeiting all such goods or commodities which they, or any of them, shall so buy and sell again by way of traffic, or in which any of them shall so trade, and also treble the value thereof, one moiety to the said United Company, and the other moiety to him or them who will sue for the same.
Page 183 - and sell the same again, or any part thereof, at the place where he or they bought the same, or at any other place within the same Province, or any other such Province or country respectively except on account of the said Company; nor shall it be lawful for any of the
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Page 266 - well; to them I am a great deal indebted for the fortune of the day. "We have had 129 men killed and 472 wounded; the enemy not more, perhaps not so much, as they were entrenched, but they have lost a vast number of cavalry. "I have taken 107 pieces of artillery, 6,000