upon Interrogatories, The Questions to be inserted in the Warrant of Commitment.shall in their Warrants of Commitment specify such Question or Questions.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, The African Company restrained from disposing of any Military Stores, &c.That the said Royal African Company, their Directors, Officers, and Servants, and every of them, shall, for the Space of One Year, to be computed from the Seventeenth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and forty nine, be, and they are hereby restrained and disabled from assigning, transferring, or disposing of all or any their Military Stores, Ammunition, Slaves, Canoes, Vessels, and Things necessary for the Use or Defence of their Forts and Settlements; and all Suits for Money due by them, stayed for 1 Year.and all Actions, Suits, and Process, depending, or which shall be hereafter commenced or prosecuted by any Person or Persons for Recovery of any Debt or Sum of Money due, or pretended to be due, from the said Company, or from any Person or Persons, for or in respect of any Debt or Debts contracted for or on Behalf of the said Company, shall be, and the same are hereby stayed for the Space of One Year, to be computed from the said Seventeenth Day of March, One thousand seven hundred and forty nine.
And whereas David Crichton, late One of the Chief Agents of the said company at Cape Coast Castle, now a Prisoner for Debt in the Custody of the Sheriffs of the City of London, did, with Two others of the said Company’s Agents or Servants there (to wit) Thomas Chalmer and James Craik, in the Year One thousand seven hundred and forty five, contract a Debt at Cape Coast Castle aforesaid, of fourteen hundred Pounds, for and on the behalf of the said Company, for the Support and Maintenance of their Forts and Servants: And whereas the said David Crichton now stands charged in the Custody of the said Sheriffs, in Execution, on a Judgement given in the Court of King’s Bench, at the Suit of One William Stead, for the Debt aforesaid, which, together with Costs of Suit, and Interest thereon, amounts in the Whole to the Sum of Sixteen hundred and four Pounds, Sixteen Shillings, and Six Pence, upon a Judgment obtained against him in His Majesty’s Court of King's Bench, by the said William Stead; be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, David Crichton now in Custody for a Debt contracted on Behalf of the Company, to be discharged, on giving a new Judgement,That the said David Crichton be forthwith discharged out of the Custody of the said Sheriffs, upon the said David Crichton’s giving a new Judgement to the said William Stead, for the said Sum of Sixteen hundred and four Pounds, Sixteen Shillings, and Six Pence, with Stay of Execution thereon, for One Year, to be computed from the said