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Copy Act 44 9 and 10 William III for raising sum not exceeding £2,000,000 for settling the trade to the East-Indies Statute c. 1696-1697.
East India Company: Module 1, Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947 (India Office Records, A - D) Available online
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- Language:
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- Subjects (All):
- William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
- William.
- East India Company--History--Sources.
- East India Company.
- Genre:
- Statutes and codes
- Physical Description:
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- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1696-1697].
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: IOR/A/1/51
- This is the first Act of Parliament for regulating the trade to the East Indies was passed. Effectively putting the Company's monopoly up for auction, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Montagu, devised an arrangement for the government to borrow £2 million. All those who offered money, whether individuals or corporations, were to be united into a corporation called the General Society and each member of the Society was to be permitted to trade to the East Indies.This document is physically bound within IOR/A/1/23 (together with IOR/A/1/40, 47, 49, 50 and 57 and copies of IOR/A/1/48 and 59).
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