100 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [!ST. SEASON. 



CHAP, the seed by the churka. At the same time Mr. Finnie 

 ' requested permission to connect himself with a house or 

 t houses of Agency, as he found it impossible for an isolated 

 Son 8ult 2nd ^dividual to trade in Cotton. Both these requests were con- 

 Par?. 1 ReI ceded by the Madras Government ; and thus Mr. Finnie was 

 /. 1857 ' allowed to act as general Agent for the supply of Cotton, 

 and to connect himself with any of the houses of Agency. 



Mr. Finnie ? s first year's proceedings with the 

 Churka, Thresher, and Gin. Up to this point there ap- 

 pears to have been no breach between Dr. Wight and Mr. 

 Finnie. Dr. Wight supplied Mr. Finnie with three saw 



July. 1846. 



fin* (1857) &" 18 ' two ^ twen ty fi ye saws, and one of twenty saws, to 

 P, 266; foe worked by hand. He requested that Mr. Finnie might be 

 furnished with sufficient funds for the purchase of seed Cot- 

 ton to keep his three gins at work. He even represented 

 to the Madras Government the propriety of purchasing four 

 or five hundred bales of the best churkaed Cotton, to be 

 cleaned by the thresher, and then to be sent to England, in 

 order to ascertain what the best Native Cotton would rea- 

 lize in the English market. Dr. Wight considered this 

 last measure to be of the utmost importance ; inasmuch 

 as the Native dealers were so accustomed to mix the 

 inferior qualities of Cotton with the better sorts, that 

 very few samples of the best qualities of Indian 

 Cotton ever reached the English market, and consequently 

 much ignorance prevailed respecting the average prices 

 which such Cotton would realize. Thus the permission 

 nie'sietter, granted to Mr. Finnie to purchase churkaed Cotton harmo- 

 1846. Pari. n ized with Dr. Wight's own views. A distinction however 



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0^857) p. mus t be made, between the authority which he received to 

 i ht's P urcnase on Government account seed Cotton for ginning 

 SeT' is*? towards making up the 6000 bales, and the churkaed Cotton 

 Parl " (1857) f r threshing to make up the 600 bales ; and the permission 



turn 

 p, 33f, 



granted him to purchase any Cotton he pleased on private 



