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(11 ) the Sum to be recovered be not of greater Value than Thirty Thouſand Rupees;and the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, ſhall have the like Power and Juriſdiction, and is hereby authorized to hear, examine, try and determine, all ſuch Cauſes, Actions, and Suits as aforeſaid, ariſing, growing, and to be brought or promoted againſt every other Perſon or Perſons whatſoever, Inhabitants of India, reſiding in the ſaid Provinces, Diſtricts, or Countries of Bengal, Babar, and Oriſſa, upon any Contract or Agreement in writing, entered into by any of the ſaid Inhabitants, with any of His Majeſty's Subjects, where the Cauſe of Action ſhall exceed the Sum of Five Hundred current Rupees, and when ſuch Inhabitant ſhall have agreed in the ſaid Contract, that, in caſe of Diſpute, the Matter ſhall be determined in the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal; and to the end that Juſtice may be adminiſtered in the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, with all convenient Speed and certain Effect, Our Will and Pleaſure is, and We do hereby further grant, ordain and appoint, that upon any ſuch Cauſe of Action, as aforeſaid, it ſhall be lawful and competent, for any Perſon whatſoever, by himſelf or his lawful Attorney, admitted and enrolled as aforeſaid, to prefer, to the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, and file of Record, in the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, a Plaint or Bill in Writing containing the Cauſe of Action, or Complaint, whereupon the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William, in Bengal, ſhall, and is hereby authorized to award and iſſue a Summons, or Precept in Nature of a Summons, in Writing, to be prepared in Manner above-mentioned, directed to the ſaid Sheriff, and containing a ſhort Notice of the Cauſe of Action ſet forth in the ſaid Plaint, and commanding the ſfaid Sheriff to ſummon the Perſon, againſt whom the ſaid Plaint ſhall have been filed, to appear at ſome certain Time and Place, therein to be ſpecified, to anſwer the ſaid Plaint which ſaid Precept, and the Execution thereof, the ſaid Sheriff ſhall duly return to the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, and the Perſon or Perſons, ſo ſummoned, ſhall accordingly appear, and may plead ſuch Matter