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pointed to a fixed situation in the Company's Report, 

 service at home, to examine and report upon the 

 qualities of silks received from Bengal, and to 

 afford such instructions as might be necessary, 

 to enable the Company's servants in Bengal to 

 remedy defects, and render the silk as perfect as 

 possible. 



A report of the Board of Trade having de- 

 clared that Mr. Wiss had, by an assiduity equal 

 to his skill, introduced and established the Italian 

 mode of ivinding at one opei'ation from the pod, the 

 Court presented him with £1,000 as a mark of 

 their approbation. At the same time the Bengal 

 Government was directed to present £100 to 

 A. Delia Casa, one of the Italian winders em- 

 ployed at Jungpore. Mr. Wiss continued in the 

 Company's home service for many years, and 

 was eminently useful in furnishing the Residents 

 in India with suggestions for improving their 

 silks. 



In 1777 the Bengal Government state in a let- 

 ter to the Court, that the plans of Messrs. Wiss 

 and Robinson had produced the most beneficial 

 effects, the cost of raw-silk having been lowered, 

 and the provision of it being capable of extension 

 at pleasure. The anxiety of the Court that the 



ii. (b) new 



