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being received be instantly sent to, and be dis- Memoir on 

 tributed to Collectors of Dharwar, Canara, Mala- Cultivation, 

 bar, Seringapatam, Tinnevelly, Coimbatore, Trichi- 

 nopoly, Tanjore,Barrahmahl, Arcot,Rajahmundry, 

 Vizagapatam, Ganjam, and a little to Cannool, 

 and the most positive orders should be given to 

 the said Collectors to order the seed without 

 delay to be sent to the different Amildars, with 

 instructions to give it to the head cultivators, or 

 any respectable native having lands for cultivation, 

 and to advise them to plant the same in and about 

 the villages, near tanks, wells, nullahs, springs, in 

 short wherever there is a command of water, that 

 it may be duly nourished. At the same time an 

 order should be issued by public tomtom, saying 

 that fifty star-pagodas will be paid at the Amil- 

 dar's cutcheree, upon the first delivery of 500 lbs. 

 of clean white cotton, free from leaf, seed, and 

 dirt, or two and a-half star pagodas for each 

 maund, weighing 25 lbs. of clean white cotton, 

 free from leaf, seed, and dirt ; and further, as a 

 reward to cultivators. Government will present to 

 the first candidate who shall succeed in raising 

 500 lbs. of clean white cotton from Brazil seed, 

 and who shall deliver the same at the talook cut- 

 cheree of the Amildar within two years from the 

 time of planting, a gold medal with chain, to wear 

 round the neck. This medal and chain shall be 

 in value fifty pagodas, and shall be presented by 

 the Collector in open cutcheree on some festival 



day. 



