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xxvi Rent to the said old Company), together with the said City and Dependencies, Also Fort Saint David and Three Miles compass of the circumjacent Country, upon which several Towns and Villages are erected,  Also the Factories of Cuddalore, Porto Novo, Pettipoiee, Metchlepatam, Madapollam;  and the Fort and Factory of Vizagapatam, the Settlement of York Fort at Bencoolen, on the island of Sumatra, and the Factory there; and the Factory at Indrapore; and the Factories of Tryamong Sillebar, and same other Outpagars or Factorie.s depending on the Factory of Bencoolen.—In Cochin China, the Factory of Tonqueen; also Fort William in Bengal, and the Factories of Chuttanuttee, with, a large Territory thereto belonging.   The Factory of Ballasore, Cossimbuzar, Dacca, Hughly, Maulda, Rajamaul, and Patna, and their Right to Bantam, or any other Settlements on the South Seas, and all other their Forts, Factories, Islands, Lands, Tene­ments, Territories, and Hereditaments, between the Cape of Good Hope and the Streights of Magellan;  and all Castles, Fortifications, Ordnance, Guns, Stores, Ammunition, Slaves, Horses, Cattle, Ships, Sloops, Boats, Vessels, Plate, Revenues, Rents, Customs, Incomes, and Profits, Pre­rogatives, Royalties, Privileges, Franchises, Pre-eminencies and Hereditaments of the said Old Company, within, upon, or belonging to, or held or enjoyed with, the said Islands, Ports, Facto­ries, &c before identified. And also all their Right, Estate, Tide, and Interest of, in, or to the several Mesuages, Warehouses, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, of the said Company, in the Parish of Great St. Helens, London, with their Appurtenances. To hold the Premises to the New Company, and their Successors, in as large and ample Manner as the same could or might have been held by the Old Company.

In this Conveyance are contained dwers Covenants of a temporary Nature, and also a Declara­tion to ascertain what shall be deemed the Dead Stock of the Old Company; and also a mutual Covenant for giving their respective Consents to a Decree in the Court of Chancery, for a spe­cific Performance of the Covenants contained in the Indenture Tripartite herein before abstracted.

The Award of the Earl of Godolphin, between the Old and New East India Companies dated 29th September, 1708.

BY Deed poll, under the Hand and Seal of the Lord High Treasurer the Earl of Godolphin, made in pursuance of an Act of the Sixth Year of Queen Anne, stating, that the Two Companies being desirous that a speedy and compleat Union might be had and perfected, pursuant to the before abstracted Indenture Tripartite, had agreed to refer all Matters in Dispute concerning the same, and the compleating the said Union, unto the final Determination and Award of the said Earl; and the said Earl, having thereupon heard both Parties, did adjudge and award to the fol­lowing Purport; viz.

1. That certain specified Parts of the separate Debts, Goods, Merchandizes, and Effects of the said Two Companies respectively, should be deemed Part of their United Stock. And for vesting the same in the New Company for the Benefit of the united Trade, the Old Company were directed to transfer such of the said Debts, as were due to them, unto the Queen’s Majesty, to the Intent the same might be re-granted under the Great Seal to the New Company; and after such re-grant, the New Company, in respect of the united Stock, were made liable to the Payment of the Debts as well of the Old Company on their separate Account, as of the New Company on Account of their old additional Stock called the Shares in the East Indies, Persia, China, and Saint Helena, and other the Limits of their Charter.

2. That inasmuch as the aforesaid separate Debts, Credits, and Effects of the Old Company, fell short by Estimation of a sufficiency to pay what was owing abroad on their separate Account, it was directed that the Old Company should pay to the New Company, £96,615 4s. 6d. by Instalments, for the Benefit of the united Trade. And because the Credits and Effects of the New Company exceeded by Estimation the Debts due on Account of their said old additional Stock, called Shares, in the East Indies, &c. therefore the Old Company were directed to pay to the New Company, for the Use of the respective Members interested in the said Shares, the Sum of ££66,005 4s. 2d.

3. The Third Part of the Award contains Directions for each Company to discharge their respec­tive Debts at Home within the Times therein limited, and, prescribes the Mode for raising Money amongst there respective Members.

4. The Old Company were to assign to the Queen such Debts, due to them in Great Britain, as they should not be able to get in before the Time appointed for the Surrender of their Char­-