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"Written statement of the Defendants.

"I. In May one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine the then Committee of Management of a certain Educational Establishment, formerly called the Calcutta Training School, but now called the Metropolitan Institution, rented from the plaintiff the house mentioned in the plaint at the monthly rent of fifty rupees for the use of the said school.

"II. In April one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one a change took place in the Committee of Management, and the defendants, among others, became Managers of the said school.

"XII. In February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four the plaintiff had sent in a bill for rupees one hundred on account of rent for January preceding, which the defendants, along with the other managers of the said school, refused to pay in consequence of the incomplete state of the building. Since then no bill for rent has been presented by the plaintiff.