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ber 1830 also notices, that you had received twenty- Letter to 



Bocabay, 



four bales and some bags of cotton from the Super- e March 1832. 

 intendent of an experimental farm which has been 

 established at Broach, in pursuance of our instruc- 

 tions of the 18th February 1829 in the Public 

 Department. 



1 1 . We collect from the papers annexed to your 

 Revenue letter of the 15th June 1831, that Mr. 

 Finey, whom you had engaged to institute and con- 

 duct the experimental farm, had been authorized, 

 in September 1829 (the season for sowing cotton 

 having then passed), to purchase a parcel of the 

 plant growing in the districts near Broach, and 

 that this cotton, gathered and cleaned under Mr. 

 Finey's personal direction, had on its arrival at the 

 presidency been there examined by a Committee 

 of Native Merchants, who pronounced it to be 

 superior in quality and cleanness to any they had 

 inspected for many years, and you saw it due to 

 Mr. Finey to express your satisfaction at the 

 result of his endeavours in this particular. 



12. We learn w ith much concern, that you were 

 soon afterwards deprived of the services of that 

 gentleman, his decease having taken place after a 

 night's illness, contracted, as it appears, from ex- 

 posure to rain in the active discharge of his doty. 



13. The dealers in London have deemed this 

 parcel of Mr. Finey's cotton to be perfect in co- 

 lour and cleanness, but not to be superior in staple 



p to 



