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ihem, appears to possess some advantage over the usual form of such 

 machinery. 



Samples of hemp, (American water rotted,) broken and skutched in 

 a state for market by the above tiientioned machinery, in Missouri, 

 were exhibited to the commitee, and are more clean, and better freed 

 from shives, than any they have before seen, while at the same time the 

 fibre of the hemp is equally carried out in thickness to the end of the 

 head, and in their opinion, such hemp would waste less in hackling 

 than that broken and cleaned by hand. 



JAMES RENWICK, Chairman. 

 JAMES J. MAPES, 

 HENRY B. RENWICK, 

 JAMES R. CHILTON, M. D. 



Committee. 

 New-York, October, 1845. 



