258 



COTTON-WOOL. 



^Bombly"' ^^^^ contingent expenses), which he states 



5 Oct. 1833. will be quite sufficient to carry on the duties of 

 the farm. The establishment was still further 

 reduced under an arrangement subsequently made 

 by the Superintendent with the ryots, to furnish 

 labour of every description, on condition that, for 

 every begah so cultivated, they were to be allowed 

 to hold an equal quantity of land free of rent. 



11. As the Superintendent was often obliged to 

 leave the farm at Danda, from which he would be 

 so still more frequently when engaged in carrying 

 into execution the plan of purchasing kupas from 

 the ryots, and as his absence, even for a day, was 

 attended with much inconvenience, in consequence 

 of there being no competent person to take charge 

 on such occasions, it was considered necessary 

 that he should have an assistant ; more especially 

 as the unhealthy climate of Guzerat rendered it 

 imprudent to hazard the success of the establish- 

 ment on the life of a single individual. Mr. Allen 

 was accordingly appointed an Assistant to the 

 Superintendent, on a salary of one hundred rupees 

 per mensem, with batta at the rate of one rupee 

 per diem when employed beyond the farm, and 

 four hundred rupees were granted to enable him 

 to defray the expenses of his journey. 



12. Considering it advisable that there should 

 be subsidiary farms in different parts of the 

 country, we authorized the Superintendent, in 

 May 1831, to establish one on the vs^estern side of 



the 



