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The Reason for dividing into 85 Shares was with a View to provide for 
the whole of the Partners of the N. W. Company who had claims as Partners. 
Shares. 
NW in CO: oO CIN GEBHACTOUS fee ciel re) ol eerie siti oO 
LUACDICEMEVAGETS a2 sie ce NN MEN cle] CNE CRT 
SERECITCONSHANES cs ioc: eee eee tee lee NS 
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Shares. 
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MC ÉD rAders H.'s.) cs ati RCE tt 
diRetirediShares.. !.: se nc veahele tele Sc clee0e RRE 
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[In connection with this note it may be said that by the Deed Poll of Mar. 
26, 1821, which was drawn uplon the union of the two great Companies and 
signed by the representatives of each, the profits were to be divided into one 
hundred equal parts of which forty were to be divided between the chief factors 
and chief traders. These forty shares were again subdivided into eighty-five 
shares of which each of the twenty-five chief factors received two and each 
of the chief traders one. The exact numbers are shown in the note. See The 
Great Company, Beckles Willson. (London, 1900), vol. II., pp. 218, 219.] 
