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that precise limit. We also stated, that we should i^^"®*" 



^ Bombay, 



not object to affording relief from the transit duties ^ ^^^2. 

 and sea customs. 



49. Your Revenue letter of the 18th May 1831 

 acquaints us, that the subject was under your con- 

 sideration and a communication would be made to 

 us thereupon. 



50. We shall be enabled, upon the receipt of 

 that communication, to give more definite instruc- 

 tions in this department respecting a regular in- 

 vestment of cotton for transmission to England. 

 In the mean time we deem it expedient to direct, 

 that if the result of the measures you may have 

 adopted shall cause such a reduction in the price 

 of cotton that it can be invoiced at 115 rupees per 

 Surat candy, you will direct the Commercial Resi- 

 dent at the northern factories to provide three or 

 four thousand bales of the best thomil cotton of 

 the crop of 1832-3, which you will consign to 

 London upon private ships, if freight be obtainable 

 at the rates, not upon any account exceeding £9 

 sterling per ton, contemplated in a preceding 

 paragraph. If such freight be not obtainable, you 

 will send five hundred bales of this cotton to 

 England upon the best terms you may be able, and 

 the remainder of it to China. 



51. We find by a minute of Lord Clare in May 

 1831, and your letter to the Collector of Surat of 

 the 5th of that month, that you had authorized the 

 Superintendent of the experimental farm at Broach 



to 



