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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter from enabled to solve the doubts which still seem to be 

 17 No™^i83o. entertained, as to whether Indian cotton really 

 suffers deterioration from pressure or not, we beg 

 leave to inform your Honourable Court, that we 

 have directed that part of the cotton produced at 

 the cotton experimental farm at Broach be close 

 pressed and screwed, and part packed loosely in 

 bags ; and at the same time to observe, that it is 

 the general opinion of men possessing experience 

 in mercantile pursuits, that Indian cotton does not 

 suffer injury from being pressed, provided when 

 packed it is dry and free from foreign sub- 

 stances. 



No. 71 



Extract Letter from the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay to the Court of Directoi^s, dated the 2lst 

 December 1830. 



Letter from Par. 2. We bcg leave to inform your Honourable 

 2] D^L^I'mo. Court that some time ago a proposal was made to 

 us by one Buswunt Sing, an enterprising and 

 respectable merchant in Ahmednuggur, through 

 the principal Collector, to cultivate and supply 

 Government with cotton. One of the principal 

 conditions for which he stipulated was, that he 

 should have an advance of cash to the extent of 

 a lac of rupees, but without any interest being 

 charged, and which sum was to be repaid by in- 

 stalments 



