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A MANUAL 



ON TilE CULTURE OF SILK, AND ITS MANUFACTURE, 



Prepared under the instructions and 'superintendence of the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the House of 

 Representatives of the United States, introduced by the Honorable 

 Charles Miner, of Pennsylvania, and adopted on the eleventh of May, 

 1826, in the following words, viz: 



Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be prepared 

 a well-digested Manual, containing the best practical information 

 that can be collected, on the growth and manufacture of silk, adapted 

 to the different parts of the Union, containing such facts and observa- 

 tions, in relation to the growth and manufacture of silk in other coun- 

 tries, as may be useful, and that the same be laid before Congress at 

 the commencement of their next session. 



