130 COTTON IN THE HABEAS PRESIDENCY. [2ND. SEASON. 



CHAP. 2nd. Heavy expenses of ginning. Mr. Finnie sub- 

 .. mitted at the same time a tabular statement, exhibiting the 

 181 cost of ginning operations. This estimate was confined to 

 Mr. Fin. ^ ne actual expenses of the day, excluding the rent of the 

 23?d S ^ept! house, and the cost of machinery and superintendence, 

 fletum ' Moreover, he reported that the business was conducted, and 

 uso. tetter,' the expenses disbursed, under his own eye ; and consequently 

 Messrs Ar- w ^ n greater celerity and stricter economy than could be ex- 

 co! hn 26th pected when left to the Native servants. From his state- 

 ibid plIS", nient, which is exhibited on the opposite page, it would 

 366< seem that the net cost of every pound of gin cleaned Cotton 



was nearly 3|d. Accordingly, Mr. Finnie inferred that it 

 was utterly impossible to use the gin in cleaning Cotton 

 as a mercantile transaction. He also reported the same re- 

 sults to Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co,, of Madras ; and the 

 Messrs. Ar. latter concurred in his conclusions, but trusted that a ma- 

 co'sjetter, chine might yet be constructed, which would clean the 

 1847. Pari.' Cotton in a manner equally efficient, and at a less cost. 



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365 57) p * ^ke Statement of Mr. Finnie bears the following title : 

 " Tabular Statement, showing the quantity of seed Cotton 

 cleaned in a day by one Thresher and three Gins, two of 

 twenty-five saws, and one of twent}?- saws ; the per centage 

 and quantity of clean Cotton from a given quantity of seed 

 Cotton, and the amount and per centage of waste ; the cost 

 of seed Cotton, cost of separating the seed from the fibre 

 and total cost per candy of clean Cotton in Rupees (reduced 

 to English money,) and cost per Ib. in English money." 



