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as dunnage among the cargo, or in compressed bales, but 
quantity and steadiness of supply are essential, As regards 
price, my Lords understand that if the article could be laid 
down so as to cost from 2d. to 2!d. per lb. when purified and 
bleached, without reckoning the cost of preparation, it would 
be sufficiently low to answer the purpose in view. 
My Lords request that you will bring this subject under the 
consideration of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council 
for Trade, and move their Lordships, if they concur in the 
expediency of the inquiry here suggested, to communicate on 
the subject with the Foreign Office, in order that the necessary 
circular instructions may be issued to Her Majesty’s Consuls 
abroad, to carry out the objects adverted to. 
Tam, &c., 
James Booth, Esq., &c. (Signed) Jamus Witson. 
Board of Trade, April 19, 1854. 
Sir,—I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy 
Council for Trade to forward to you a copy of a communication 
received from the Lords of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and to 
request that the Commissioners for the Affairs of India may 
bring it under the notice of the Chairman and Directors of the 
Honorable East India Company, with a view to obtaining the 
opinion of Dr. Forbes Royle, the officer in charge of the 
scientific correspondence relating to the vegetable productions 
of India. 
I have, &c., 
Sir T. N. Redington, &c. (Signed) J. Emerson Tennent. 
India Board, May 15, 1854. 
Sir,— In reply to your letter of the 19th ult., enclosing a 
letter addressed to the Board of Trade by the Treasury 
respecting the procuration of raw material for the manufacture 
of paper, I am directed by the Commissioners for the Affairs of 
India to transmit to you a report by Dr. Royle, received from 
the East India House upon this subject, in compliance with 
the object expressed in your letter. 
T have, &c., 
Sir J. E. Tennent, &c. (Signed) TT. N. Reninerton. 
