COTTON-WOOL. 



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skilful superintendence, at the places of clep6t to Letter from 

 which the cotton is first brought, and they esti- 04 juifi8S2. 

 mated that eighty or one hundred machines of the 

 kind, placed in the Calpee cleaning godowns, 

 would do the work of from fifteen hundred to two 

 thousand persons employed there during the im- 

 port season, and cause much less injury to the fibre 

 or staple of the cotton than it receives from the 

 present process. 



113. The Board afterwards proposed, that of 

 the three saw-gins which it was intended to assign 

 to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, one 

 might be forwarded for trial to the Calpee factory. 

 In conformity with this suggestion, we desired the 

 Mint Committee to instruct Captain Forbes to set 

 up one of the saw-gins and make it over to the 

 Export Warehouse-keeper for the purpose stated 

 in the Board's letter; the other two to be delivered 

 to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, as 

 before directed. 



No. 89. 



Extract Letter from H. Chamier, Esq,, Chief 

 Secretary to the Madras Government, to the 

 President and Members of the Board of Revenue, 

 dated the 11 th May 1833. 



You will be pleased to forward, for transmission cove^rnment 

 by the Sesostris, to the Court of Directors, copies of R^enul, 



17 May 1833, 



Letter from 

 Madras 



