Moreover, my Lords, it was in consequence of these very transactions that the new covenants were made, which bind the servants of the Company never to take a present of above two hundred pounds, or some such sum of money, from any native in circumstances there described.
Burke discusses the establishment of new covenants to prevent corruption among Company servants.
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