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COTTON- WOOL. 



^Bombay"' i^^^ion to cxteiid the proposed mdulgence, by 

 31 Dec. 1829. allowing Europeans, who might be desirous of 

 raising indigo, or any particular kind of produce, 

 to hold land for that purpose, the tenure being in 

 all cases leasehold and not proprietary. 



No. 68. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council, Madras, dated I8th 

 August 1830. 



Letter to p^r. 14. YouT letter of the 16th October 1829 



Madras, 



8 Aug. 1830, acquaints us, that as you consider the inferiority of 

 the Madras cotton to be attributable to the charac- 

 ter of the plant rather than to the soil or climate, 

 and from a desire to encourage any measure w hich 

 holds out a prospect of fair remittance to England, 

 you had been induced to view in a favourable light 

 a proposal from a Mr. Fischer, for supplying the 

 Company with a small quantity of cotton, the 

 produce of Mauritius seed, to be delivered at Ma- 

 dras at 115 rupees per candy; and as the quality 

 of the sample which had been submitted to you 

 was decidedly superior to any which had been pro- 

 duced in Coimbatore or Tinnevelly, you had no 

 doubt of its obtaining a better price in the Chinese 

 or English markets. 



15. We have noticed in our letter to you of the 

 8th October 1823, that Bourbon cotton was not 



then 



