200 



COTTON- WOOL. 



Letter from ties from cotton-wool, and thus supersede the hand- 

 Bengal Boaid ^ ^ ^ * ^ 

 of Trade picking, would be essentially serviceable in this 



to Government, i-ii i i t •^n i 



25 Oct. 1831. country, because such might be used, under skilful 

 superintendence, at places of dep6t to which the 

 cotton is first brought. Eighty or one hundred 

 machines of this description placed in the Calpee 

 cleaning godowns, would do the work of from fif- 

 teen hundred to two thousand persons employed 

 there during the import season, and cause, we ima- 

 gine, much less injury to the fibt e or staple of the 

 cotton. 



6. We have seen a machine of the above de- 

 scription at the Glo'ster cotton-works, and propose 

 requesting to be allowed to try some experiments 

 there with unpicked cotton which we have had 

 sent from Calpee for that purpose, and will do 

 ourselves the pleasure to submit the result to your 

 Honour in Council, should it appear that any 

 practical advantage is likely o arise from it. 



No. 80. 



Extract Letter from the Governor- general in 

 Council, Bengal, to the Court of Directors, dated 

 the 25th October 1831 . 



rfrom ' Wc directed the machines and me- 



^1831. t^l^ic work to be sent to the new Mint, to be 

 set up by the Superintendent of Government 

 machinery, under whose care they would be 



kept 



