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1788, April 10.--Pa. 592.
_Second._
_Question._--Whether it be competent for the Managers to produce an
examination taken without oath by the rest of the Council in the absence
of Mr. Hastings, the Governor-General, charging Mr. Hastings with
corruptly receiving 3,54,105 rupees, which examination came to his
knowledge, and was by him transmitted to the Court of Directors as a
proceeding of the said Councillors, in order to introduce the proof of
his demeanor thereupon,--it being alleged by the Managers for the
Commons, that he took no steps to clear himself, in the opinion of the
said Directors, of the guilt thereby imputed, but that he took active
means to prevent the examination by the said Councillors of his servant
Cantoo Baboo?
1789, May 14--Pa. 677.
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_Answer._--The Lord Chief-Baron of the Court of Exchequer delivered the
unanimous opinion of the Judges upon the said question, in the
negative,--and gave his reasons.
1789, May 20.--Pa. 718.
_Third._
_Question._--Whether the instructions from the Court of Directors of the
United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, to
Warren Hastings, Esquire, Governor-General, Lieutenant-General John
Clavering, the Honorable George Monson, Richard Barwell, Esquire, and
Philip Francis, Esquire, Councillors, (constituted and appointed the
Governor-General and Council of the said United Company's Presidency of
Fort William in Bengal, by an act of Parliament passed in the last
session, intituled, "An act for establishing certain regulations for the
better management of the affairs of the East India Company, as well in
India as in Europe,") of the 29th of March, 1774, Par.
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