COTTON-WOOL. 



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kept until it could be determined in what way Letter from 



I . Bengal, 



they should be disposed of. We desired the 25 Oct. issi. 

 Board of Trade to state whether the American 

 saw-gin, formerly forwarded to the Commercial 

 Resident at Etawah and Calpee, had been found 

 to answer, and called upon them to ascertain and 

 report the result of the experiments made with the 

 same description of machine (both received last 

 year from your Honourable Court) which we be- 

 lieved was then working at the Glo'ster mills. We 

 likewise desired the Board's opinion, as to the 

 disposal of the machinery which arrived by the 

 Thames and Lady Melville. 



No. 81. 



Extract Letter from the Secretary to the Bengal 

 Government to the Board of Trade p dated Fort- 

 JVilliam, Sth November 1831. 



Par. 2. The report of the trials with the machine Letter from 

 lent to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society Gov^nmentto 

 being so satisfactory, it is considered desirable by ^°nov°^^83l ' 

 Government that experiments should be likewise 

 made with the saw-gin at Calpee ; the Board are 

 therefore requested to acquaint the officiating 

 Resident with the mode in which the engine is 

 worked, and if any part is defective, as supposed 

 by Mr. Truscott, which can be ascertained by 



sending 



