88 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [IST SEASOIT. 



Mr. Simpson, another American Planter, on the very 

 ground urged by Mr. I'innie ; namely, that if the 

 Planters appeared as purchasers, their instructions 

 would command greater attention than would be given 

 to mere abstract recommendations. Accordingly, a 

 Minutes of similar permission was granted to Mr. Fin- 

 Consuita- nie, but under the same restrictions as 

 AusI.'isIb. those imposed at Bombay ; namely, that 

 Pari.'Eoturu the puTchases should be restricted to Cot- 

 ' ■ ton ginned and prepared on the American 

 principle. 

 140 Eestriction removed. — Mr. Knnie appealed strongly 



against the restriction to ginned Cotton. 

 ftteJ'Sth'^ He repeated all his previous objections to 

 Aug., '1846. the use of the gin. He again stated that 

 U^saTj^^aes! ""^tat was wanted was a machine like a 



thresher to clean the staple, before the 

 people had separated it from the seed by the churka. 

 At the same time Mr. Finnie requested permission to 

 connect himself with a house or houses of Agency, as 

 Minutes of ^® found it impossible for an isolated in- 

 Oonsuita- dividual to trade in Cotton. Both these 

 Nov'.frsie. requests were conceded by the Madras 

 fiswi^'an Grovemment; and thus Mr. Finnie was 

 ' ' ■ allowed to act as general Agent for the 

 supply of Cotton, and to connect himself with any of 

 the houses of Agency. 

 141- Mr. Finnie's first year's proceedings with the 

 Churka, Thresher, and Gin. — TJp to this point there 

 appears to have been no breach between Dr. "Wight 

 Dr. ■Wight's *Qd Mr. Finnie. Dr. Wight supplied Mr. 

 letter, 28th Finnie with three saw sins, — two of twenty- 

 July, 1846. „ J r i i J- -U 



Pari. Eetum Hve saws, and one oi twenty saws,— to be 

 (1867), p. 286. worked by hand. He requested that Mr. 

 Finnie might be furnished with sufficient funds for the 

 purchase of seed Cotton 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 realize in the 



