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2. Mr. Randall's Memoir on the growth of Letter to 

 cotton, and the samples which accompanied it, of Traded 

 will be forwarded to the Court of Directors, in 



order that the Honourable Court may consider 

 of the expediency of procuring cotton-seed of a 

 better species from America, to supplant the 

 inferior kind of cotton at present grown in India. 

 The same project was strongly recommended by 

 Mr. Bernard Metcalfe, from whom the Honour- 

 able Court may probably have the means of ob- 

 taining useful information regarding it. 



3. The Governor in Council thinks it very 

 desirable, as proposed by you, that an enhanced 

 price should be offered in the Ceded Districts for 

 clean picked cotton of a better description than 

 what is usually produced there. 



4. The several Collectors will be instructed, 

 through the Board of Revenue, to afford all the 

 assistance in their power to the Commercial offi- 

 cers in Tinnevelly, Coimbatore, Masulipatam, 

 and Vizagapatam, in establishing and managing 

 the proposed experimental cotton-farms, with the 

 view of introducing the culture of an improved 

 species of cotton. The object in view is of much 

 importance, and worthy the attention of Govern- 

 ment ; and its attainment, probably, will admit of 

 being secured, or its impracticability be ascer- 

 tained, without subjecting the Company to any 

 heavy expense. 



Fort St. George, 8th June 1819. 



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