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REPORT ON 



Report. of wrouglit silks to quit that branch and take to 

 the winding of raw-siik. 



Every encouragement was to be extended to the 

 cultivation of the mulberry-plant, so as to make 

 it more general through the Bengal provinces, 

 and the Government was directed to make such 

 deductions from the rents of the lands planted 

 with it, as should have the effect of a bounty in 

 its favour, and render it more profitable than any 

 other article of culture. 



In conformity with the instructions of the Court 

 of Directors, an advertisement was published in 

 1772, inviting the Ryots to cultivate the mul- 

 berry-plant, and as an inducement thereto, de- 

 claring that new or waste lands laid out and im- 

 proved for this purpose, should be held rent-free 

 for two years, and be taxed at half the price of 

 the ancient mulberry-grounds of the same per- 

 gunnah or village for the third year; in all suc- 

 ceeding years the lands were to be assessed at the 

 full rates. This offer was made subject to the 

 condition, that the Ryots were to keep in cultiva- 

 tion the lands which they actually held at the time 

 by their original pottahs, whether laid out in mul- 

 berry plantations or any other species of culture, 

 and to pay their usual rents without any claim for 

 deduction. 



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