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Gurwahl. In 1858, it was proposed to form another 

 Joint-stock Tea Company in London, and an appli- 

 cation was similarly made to Government for two- 

 thirds of its plantations in the Himalaya Hills, 

 with all their implements and factories, such portion 

 being considered essential to the success of the 

 undertaking. In 1859, again, a very benevolent 

 proposition was embodied in a memorial presented 

 to the Secretary of State by the projectors of the 

 Deyrah Dhoou Company. This Company solicited 

 that the Secretary of State would be pleased to direct 

 the transfer to them of the Government plantations 

 in the Deyrah Dhoon and the Kangra Valley, on 

 the same terms as the Government plantations in 

 Assam were made over to the Assam Company 

 i. e. at the estimated value of the buildings on 

 the ground, nothing being allowed for plantations, 

 by far the most extensive of all in the possession 

 of Government, and according to Dr. Jameson, at 

 the time, yielding a clear profit of a lakh of rupees, 

 or 10,000, per annum. 



The object of all these applications was trans- 

 parent. It was to create a monopoly ; and, though 

 anxious to dispose of its plantations, this the Govern- 

 ment of India distinctly refused to countenance 

 or sanction. True it is, that promises were made 

 of supplying the public with seed and seedlings as 

 had hitherto been done; but the Government of 

 India cautiously, and, after the experience gained 



