--Pa. 1001.
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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
affirmative,--and gave his reasons.
1789, July 7.--Pa. 1030.
_Sixth._
_Question._--Whether it be or be not competent to the Managers for the
Commons to give evidence upon the charge in the sixth article, to prove
that the rent, at which the defendant, Warren Hastings, let the lands
mentioned in the said sixth article of charge to Kelleram, fell into
arrear and was deficient,--and whether, if proof were offered, that the
rent fell in arrear immediately after the letting, the evidence would in
that case be competent?
1790, April 22.--Pa. 364.
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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,--"That it is not
competent to the Managers for the Commons to give evidence upon the
charge in the sixth article, to prove that the rent, at which the
defendant, Warren Hastings, let the lands mentioned in the said sixth
article of charge to Kelleram, fell into arrear and was deficient,"--and
gave his reasons.
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