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COTTON-WOOL. 



No. 10. 



Extract Proceedings of the Fort St. George Com- 

 mittee of Reform, 



Fort St. George The Committee remark with concern, that the 

 ^TXrm.^^ i*aw material for the Coast investment is procured 

 in a great measure from foreign countries, and they 

 regret the little encouragement that has been given 

 to the growth in the Company's dominions to that 

 species of cotton best adapted to their goods. A 

 failure in the import of cotton by increasing the 

 price of the raw material, affects the weaver more 

 than the dearness of rice (which during the best 

 of times is seldom within his reach), and obliges 

 him to debase the manufacture. 



It appears that cotton imported from Saddah 

 Nagpore is best adapted to the Coast manufac- 

 ture, but being of a higher price, is mixed by the 

 weavers with cotton the produce of the Circars. 



The Commercial Resident should be directed to 

 procure seed of this superior cotton ; and if, on a 

 trial of its culture on the Coast, it is not found 

 to degenerate, every possible encouragement to 

 the growth of it should be given. Eighty rupees 

 per candy should be held out as a fixed price for 

 a given number of years; and when the culture 

 of this species of cotton is established, it will be 

 sufficient if the Commercial Residents are always 

 directed to afford a market for it at sixty-four 



rupees 



