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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to 46. We take the freio:lit of £9 per ton, because 



Bombay, ^ . ° T J- 



6 March 1832. if many ships of a proper burthen for an Indian 

 voyage be required, they would probably not be 

 obtainable on lower terms ; but if freight could be 

 had at £8 per ton, the remittance would be one 

 shilling and eleven-pence per rupee ; and if at £7 

 per ton, it would be two shillings per rupee. 



47. The invoice price of the superior kind of 

 Surat cotton, provided in pursuance of our order of 

 the 3d June ] 829 and shipped per Elizabeth, \\a.s one 

 hundred and thirty-eight rupees per candy, and 

 the parcel provided by Mr. Pelly and shipped per 

 Earl of Eldon appears to have cost one hundred 

 and twenty-seven rupees per candy ; but the gene- 

 ral price of your cotton has been about one hun- 

 dred and forty rupees per candy, varying with the 

 abundance of the crops. 



48. In your letter of the 23d July 1828, Revenue 

 department, you submitted to us propositions for 

 increasing the growth of cotton and for reducing 

 its price ; and in our reply to that letter, under 

 date the 16th July 1830, you have been informed 

 that we did not approve of the granting a bounty 

 upon cotton exported to the United Kingdom, but 

 it was our opinion that land appropriated to the 

 growth of cotton, sugar, and all other crops of a 

 peculiar nature, should not be subject to a higher 

 assessment than lands of the same quality under 

 ordinary crops, and that when such land is subject 

 to a higher assessment it should be reduced to 



that 



