[Footnote 2: Vide Ibid. Appendix, No. 1. a. fo. 699.]
[Footnote 3: The Court's orders for this reduction, dated the 11th of June, 1764, are very positive and peremptory.]
[Footnote 4: The order was expected some time before it was issued.]
[Footnote 5: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 1. fo. 699. This remonstrance sets forth the high rates of supplies at a distance from the coast, objections of servants to act except in one capacity, and various expenses and hardships entailed by their situation, and aggravated by the reduction of allowances.]
[Footnote 7: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 4 fo. 702.]
[Footnote 10: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 7. fo. 702.]
[Footnote 12: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 9. fo. 703.]
[Footnote 13: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 10. fo. 703.]
[Footnote 15: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 13. fo. 704.]
[Footnote 17: Vide Letter, 1st May. No. 17. fo. 705. No. 18. fo. 705.]
[Footnote 18: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, Letter 4th May, App. No. 21. fo. 706.]
[Footnote 20: Vide Letter 5th May, No. 23. fo. 706.]
[Footnote 21: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, Letter 5th May, App. No. 24. fo. 707.]
[Footnote 23: Ibid. Nos. 28. and 30. fo. 708.]
[Footnote 24: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 29. fo. 708.]
[Footnote 27: Vide 9th Rep. of Com. of Secresy, App. No. 38. fo. 780.]
[Footnote 28: A legacy of 70,000_l._ was bequeathed by Meer Jaffier Aly Khan, Nawab of Bengal, in 1765, to Lord Clive, and paid by his Lordship, in the year 1766, into the Company's treasury at Fort William, to run at interest at the rate of 8 per cent., as an annual fund for the support of European officers and soldiers, who may be disabled or decayed in the Company's service in Bengal, and for the widows of officers and soldiers who may die on service there, 8th June, 1766.
The Company extended this donation afterwards to the benefit of all invalided, disabled, or superannuated officers and soldiers, and the widows of such officers and soldiers as may die in their service in any of their settlements in the East Indies, pursuant to an agreement stipulated between them and Lord Clive in the year 1770, by which the former establishment of shares was altered to the present moieties or proportions specified as follows:--