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COTTON-WOOL. 



Further Minute by the Right Honourable the 

 Governor. 



Lord Clare's Since writinfij: the above, I have ascertained that 



Minute, . ? 



11 iMayi832. the quantity of cotton received from the farm is 

 fifty-seven bales, all cleaned by the saw-gin. The 

 fact that it has been so cleaned should be stated 

 in the advertisement. In addition to the quantity 

 which I have proposed to send to the Honourable 

 Court, I think it would be desirable to retain about 

 six bales to be consigned to the Supracargoes at 

 Canton. It will be interesting to have the estima- 

 tion in which this cotton is held by the Chinese, 



No. 85. 



Extract Letter from the Governor in Council, 

 Madras, to the Court of Directors, dated the 

 15th Mai/ IS32. 



Letter from Par. 29. In our dispatch dated 16th October 

 15 MayT832. 182 9, WO iuformcd your Honourable Court, that we 

 had accepted a tender by Mr. Fischer to supply 

 two hundred candies of Bourbon seed cotton at 

 the rate of one hundred and fifteen rupees the 

 candy. On making that tender, Mr. Fischer pro- 

 posed, in the event of the contract being continued 



for 



