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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IX. RESIGNATION OF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOUR-GENERAL. THAT Warren Hastings having by his agent Lauchlin Macleane, Esquire, on the loth day of October, in the year 1776, signified to the Court of Directors his desire to resign his office of Governour-General of Bengal, and requested their nomination of a successor to the vacancy, which would be thereby occasioned in the Supreme Council, the Court of Directors did thereupon desire the said Lauchlin Macleane to inform them of the authority, under which he acted in a point of such very great importance; and the said Lauchlin Macleane signifying there- upon his readiness to give the Court every pos- sible satisfaction on that subject, but the powers, with which he was intrusted by the papers in his custody, being mixed with other matters of a nature extremely confidential, he would submit the same to the inspection of any three of the members of the Court, the said Court of Directors empowered the chairman, deputy chairman, and Richard Becher, Esquire, to inspect the authorities, powers, and directions, with which Mr. Macleane was furnished by Mr. Hastings, to make si 4 theI the propositions contained in his letter of the i oth October 1776, and to report their opinion thereon. And the said Committee did accordingly, on the 23d of the said month, report, that, having con- ferred with Mr. Macleane on the subject of his letter presented to the Court the 11 th instant, they found, that, from the purport of Mr. Hast- ingss instructions, contained in a paper in his own hand-writing given to Mr. Macleane, and produced by him to them, Mr. Hastings declared he would not continue in the government of Bengal, unless certain conditions, therein speci- fied, could be obtained, of wh...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217420778 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021742077X |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $20.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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