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 ESTABLISHING A

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FORT-WILLIAM in BENGAL

Bearing Date the Twenty-ſixth Day of March, in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of GEORGE III.

Anno Domini, One Thouſand Seven Hundred and Seventy-four.

GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and ſo forth: To all to whom theſe Preſents ſhall come, Greeting, WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament, paſſed in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign, reciting a Charter, bearing Date, at Weſtminſter, the Eighth Day of January, in the Twenty-ſixth Year of the Reign of Our Royal Grandfather, King George the Second, of glorious Memory, by him granted to The United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the Eaſt-Indies; thereby, amongſt other Things, conſtituting and eſtabliſhing Courts of Civil, Criminal, and Eccleſiaſtical Juriſdiction, at the ſaid United Company's Settlements, at Madraſpatnam, Bombay, and Fort-William in Bengal; and that the ſaid Charter does not ſufficiently provide for the due Adminiſtration of Juſtice, in ſuch Manger as the State and Condition of the Company's Pre-