Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annals of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt The next measures of the minister were a bill to permit the east-in dia company to divide eight per cent. Interest on their capital. Ao act to allow the company a further respite of duties due to the exchea quer, to enable them to accept of bills beyond the amount prescribed by former acts, and to establish their future were followed by a bill for the better government of the affairs of the east-india company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.