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 upon Interrogatories, shall in their Warrants of Commitment specify such Question or Questions.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Royal Company, their Directors, Officers, and Servants, and every of them, shall, for the Space of One Year, to be computed from the Seventeenth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and forty nine, be, and they are hereby restrained and disabled from assigning, transferring, or disposing of all or any their Military Stores, Ammunition, Slaves, Canoes, Vessels, and Things necessary for the Use or Defence of their Forts and Settlements; and all Actions, Suits, and Process, depending, or which shall be hereafter commenced or prosecuted by any Person or Persons for Recovery of any Debt or Sum of Money due, or pretended to be due, from the said Company, or from any Person or Persons, for or in respect of any Debt or Debts contracted for or on Behalf of the said Company, shall be, and the same are hereby stayed for the Space of One Year, to be computed from the said Seventeenth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and forty nine.

And whereas, late One of the Chief Agents of the said company at , now a Prisoner for Debt in the Custody of the Sheriffs of the City of , did, with Two others of the said Company’s Agents or Servants there (to wit) and , in the Year One thousand seven hundred and forty five, contract a Debt at  aforesaid, of fourteen hundred Pounds, for and on the behalf of the said Company, for the Support and Maintenance of their Forts and Servants: And whereas the said  now stands charged in the Custody of the said Sheriffs, in Execution, on a Judgement given in the Court of , at the Suit of One , for the Debt aforesaid, which, together with Costs of Suit, and Interest thereon, amounts in the Whole to the Sum of Sixteen hundred and four Pounds, Sixteen Shillings, and Six Pence, upon a Judgment obtained against him in His Majesty’s Court of , by the said ; be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said  be forthwith discharged out of the Custody of the said Sheriffs, upon the said  giving a new Judgement to the said , for the said Sum of Sixteen hundred and four Pounds, Sixteen Shillings, and Six Pence, with Stay of Execution thereon, for One Year, to be computed from the said