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Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal,in whatſoever Manner to be moved, as well at the Inſtance or Promotion of Parties as of Office, more or mixed, againſt any of Our Britiſh Subjects, reſiding at the ſaid Provinces, Countries or Diſtricts, and which, by the Law and Cuſtom of the ſaid Dioceſe of London, are of Eccleſiaſtical Cognizance, and the ſaid Cauſes, Suit and Buſineſs, with their Incidents, Emergents and Dependents, and whatſoever is hereto annexed,To grant Probates of laſt Wills of Britiſh Subjects, dying within Bengal Bahar and Oriſſa; to commit Letters of Adminſtration of Inteſtates; and therewith connected, to hear, diſpatch, diſcuſs, determine, and alſo to grant Probates, under ſame Seal of the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, of the laſt Wills and (illegible text) if all or of the ſaid Britiſh Subjects, of Us, Our Heirs and Succeſſors, dying within the ſaid Three Provinces, Countries or Diſticts, of Bengal, Babar, and Oriſſa; and to commit Letters of Adminiſtration, under ſome Seal, of the Goods, Chattels, Credits, and all other Effects whatſoever, of ſuch Britiſh Subjects as aforeſaid; who ſhall die inteſtate, within the ſaid three Provinces, Countries or Diſtricts, or who ſhall not have named an Executor, reſident in ſuch Diſtricts, or where the Form of Proceedings therein as in the Dioceſe of LondonExecutor, being duly cited, according to the Form now uſed for that Purpoſe, in the ſaid-Dioceſe of London, ſhall not appear, and ſue forth ſuch Probate, annexing the Will to the ſaid Letters of Adminiſtration, where ſuch Perſon ſhall have left a Will, without naming any Executor, or any Perſon for Executor, who, ſhall then be alive, and reſident within the ſaid Three Provinces; Countries: or, Diſtricts, and who, being duly cited thereunto, will appear, and ſue-forth:a Probate thereof;to ſequſter Eſtates of deceaſed Perſons; and to ſequeſter the Goods, Chattels, Credits and other Effects whatſoever, of ſuch Perſons ſo dying, in Caſes allowed by law, as the ſame is and may now be uſed in the ſaid Dioceſe of London; to allow and reject Accounts. and to demand, require, take, hear, examine and allow, and, if Occaſſion require, to diſallow and: reject the Account of them, in ſuch Manner and Form as is now uſed , or may be uſed in the ſaid Dioceſe of London, and to do all other Things whatſoever, needful and neceſſary in that Behalf:Proviſo,Provided always, and We do hereby authorize and require the ſaid Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort-William in Bengal, in ſuch Caſes as aforeſaid, where Letters of Adminiſtration ſhall becommitted,
