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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter freight and of improving its general appearance, 

 29 Aug!"mo. and which can be done with much greater compara- 

 tive ease when the cotton is fresh and new. Our 

 Governments of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, will 

 therefore call the attention of our Commercial 

 Residents to the present observation ; and it is our 

 positive order, that the commission be not paid to 

 any Commercial Resident whose provision of cot- 

 ton shall be faulty in this particular. 



2 1 . All the cotton should be of the best quality, 

 and perfectly free from seeds and dirt ; and we see 

 it proper again to enforce our former observations 

 on this head. The price of labour is so compara- 

 tively cheap in India, that it is our positive order 

 that the utmost care be taken to clean the cotton 

 in the most perfect manner, for which purpose 

 you will issue suitable directions to the Commer- 

 cial Agents ; and an especial report must be made 

 to us of the instructions which may be issued to 

 the Commercial Department in consequence of our 

 present communication, as it is the opinion of well 

 informed persons, that the objection to the use of 

 Indian cotton arises principally from its being 

 mixed with extraneous matters, the separation of 

 which in England occasions loss of time, as well as 

 other obvious objections. 



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