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Excise Officers, Were assaulted and Obstructed in their
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Duty on Board the Ship pamassres then lying at Deptford
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who bound over this Informant by Recognizance to prosecute and
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this Deponent Maketh Oath. That a Bill of Indictment upon
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the late Act of the Nineteenth of George the Second, Chapter the
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Thirty fourth for Shooting at An Officer on Board a Ship was
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Nelson and Brock; they being the Officers agt. whom the
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Listol was discharged and not this Depont: But the Grand Jury
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did find the Said bill not to be a true bill Whereupon Murphy
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was discharged being
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sixty inter on in was petition
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Walter
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