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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter fit for the general purposes of the British manu- 

 3 June 1829. facturer, we now desire that you will obtain on 

 the Company's account a quantity of Broach or 

 Surat cotton of the harvest of the season 1829-30, 

 to be gathered and prepared with the greatest 

 attention, and which we shall expect to receive in 

 London in the latter months of the year 1830. 



6. As the provision of cotton for the Company 

 in the Broach districts is not made by advances 

 of cash to the cultivators previous to the seed 

 being sown, but is conducted in the same manner 

 as by private merchants (viz, through the agency 

 of Dullots, who undertake to deliver the cotton at 

 the Company's godowns at a fixed price per bahar), 

 there will not, as we understand, be any existing 

 engagements which your Commercial Department 

 can at once make available to our present object ; 

 it therefore appears to us, that our intention may 

 be best carried into effect in the following manner, 

 viz. — 



7. That immediately upon the receipt of our 

 present instructions, you direct the Commercial 

 Resident at Broach to take the necessary measures 

 for securing, from some of the most favourable 

 districts under his Residency, a quantity of 

 the cotton which will have been already sown ; 

 for which purpose he will make arrangements 

 with patels, or other proper persons, to be 

 wholly distinct from their undertakings to de- 

 liver cotton for the China market ; or if this 



can no 



