The humble petition of Johannes Gregory, Carapiet Gregory, Catchick Gregory, and Hurprisimah Gregory, infants
Most humbly sheweth
In the petition which your petitioners presented unto your worship
yesterday contain articles were omitted in the specification. We
therefore humbly beg leave to present this petition and allege and
please your worships take the same into your worships consideration that
three table and four tea silver spoons each of your petitioners were
purchased from the interest of the certain legacy bequeathed by your
petitioners late paternal uncle Mr. Carrapiet Arrakiel the spoons also
have been seized taken and removed by the person on your worship’s
bailiff who made the seizure as aforesaid and have carried them.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your worships will be
pleased to direct that the above mentioned spoons be released from the
seizure upon due investigation.
And your petitioners shall ever pray.
Calcutta
11 February 1824
Ramdial Roy – Plaintiff
V
Johannes Sarkies, Carrapiet Sarkies and Beckton Sarkies – defendants
To JW Fuller Esqr
Sheriff
Sir Be pleased under the writ of fieri facias issued in the above cause
to seize in the hands of Captain Roberts of the ship Harriet now lying
at Diamond Harbour all and singular the debts and sum and sums of money
owing and payable to him to the abovenamed defendants or to any or
either of them and also all goods property and effects belonging to them
or any or either of them respectively in his the said Captain Roberts
hands possession or power.
I am sir your obedient servt
Smoutt
Atty for the Plaintiff
18 November 1816
Exhibit B referred to in the
annexed affidavit of Arrakiel Gentloom Aviet Summon this 31 day of July called
before me.
In the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors at
Calcutta.
In the matter of the Petition of Henry George Kinsey
late of Howrah in the twenty four Purgunnah Master Mariner and late Commander
of the Barque Johannes Sarkies and now a prisoner confined in the common gaol
of Calcutta seeking the benefit of the act
of the ninth year of the reign of His late majesty George the fourth entitled
an act to provide for the relief of Insolvent Debtors in the East Indies.
Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the faith and so forth.
Upon the application of Mr. Pearl attorney for an
on behalf of the above named Insolvent and upon reading a petition and schedule
an assignment the certificate of the Gaoler of the Calcutta jail and a
certificate of Patrick Hanton Esquire the Examiner of this Court written at the
foot of the said petition and a certificate of the attorney of the said
Insolvent written at the foot of the said schedule filed this day. It is
ordered that Saturday the fifth day of August next be appointed for hearing the
matters of the said Petition. It is further ordered that notice of the day so
appointed as aforesaid be personally served upon the detaining creditor and
also upon all the other creditors of the said Insolvent stated in the said
schedule to be resident in Calcutta or the suburbs thereof one month before the
day so appointed for hearing as aforesaid.
It is further ordered that notice of the day so
appointed as aforesaid be inserted once in the Englishman the Bengal Hurkaru
and the Calcutta Exchange Gazette newspapers of Calcutta and also once in the
Bengallee and English in the Bengallee Government Gazette printed at Serampore
and once in the Bengallee Newspaper styled the Somachar Chundrica or in the
Bengallee newspaper styled the Prohakurin the Bengallee and English language
one month before the day so appointed as aforesaid and it is further ordered
that the gaoler of the Calcutta gaol do upon being served with this order bring
up the body of the said Insolvent before this Court on Saturday the fifth day
of August next at the hour of eleven o’clock in the forenoon and in like manner
from day to day until the further order of this Court to be examined before the
said court pursuant to the stated in this behalf provided and it is further
ordered that no creditor of the said Insolvent shall be allowed at the hearing
to oppose his discharge unless he shall have given notice of his intention to
the Chief Clerk three clear days before the day of hearing.
Witness Sir Lawrence Peel Knight Chief Justice at
Fort William in Bengal the seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
Chief Clerk.
With
great pomp and circumstance, the unveiling of two statues took place on
the 6th February 1907. Above is the King Edward VII statue donated by
Sir Paul Chater. The other statue unveiled on the same day was that of
The Prince of Wales (later King George V) donated by a friend and
colleague of Sir Paul, Mr. Bell-Irving even though he had left the
colony permanently five years earlier.
1853 Sir Lawrence Peel Knight, Chief Justice, upon reading certificate
of Prothonotary and a certificate of the Sheriff of the Town of Calcutta
(Frederick Bellaires?), adjourns hearing in the case of Fieri facias
usually abbreviated fifa, a writ of execution after judgment obtained in
a legal action for debt and damages, as more time is required by
Sheriff to acquire property of Aviet Minas in the cause of John Gomes.
There were several MINAS family members in India during this period,
and unfortunately I am unable to identify exactly which Aviet Minas this
document refers to.
David Melik Freedone Beglar sues Arratoon Harrapiet Arrathoon in Dacca 1854.
Mr. D.M.F. Beglar – Decreeholder
V
Mr. Arratoon Harrapiet Arrathoon – defendant.
To: The Sheriff of Calcutta
Civil Courts.
Sir
With reference to the warrant issued to you from this Court on the 27
June 1849 in the above case, I have the honour to forward to you a
Roobkaree from the Principal Sudder Ameen of thes District dated 19 May
last, soliciting at the request of the Decreeholder, that the amount of
the Decree Rs. 1947-8-4-6 therein referred to, may with interesting, be
realised from the effects of Mr. Arratoon Harrapiet Arrathoon Defendant,
advertised for sale by you in satisfaction of a Decree in favour of
Bebee Catherine Arrathoon.
I have the honour to be sir your most obedient servant
The Judge.
Zillah Dacca
The 14th July 1854.
