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be effected, and during the administration of Lord Report. 

 Coniwallis contracts were abolished. The mode 

 of providing the investment by the agency system 

 and payment of commission was substituted, and 

 continued in practice for many years. But the 

 Court in 1830, at the recommendation of the 

 Supreme Government, put an end also to this 

 system, and directed the remuneration of the silk 

 agents to be made by fixed allowances instead of 

 a commission. 



The very extensive warlike operations then 

 carrying on in India (1781) having caused great 

 pecuniary embarrassment to the Company, the 

 usual allotments for the provision of the invest- 

 ment for Europe were absorbed, and the hope 

 which the improved quality of Bengal raw-silk 

 had justly raised, seemed, after all the Company's 

 exertions, in great danger of being frustrated. 

 To maintain the capabilities of the factories, pre- 

 vent the dispersion of the workmen now in- 

 structed in the new method of winding, and keep 

 up the silk produce in the Company's possessions, 

 the trade in raw-silk to England, hitherto in the 



I hands of the Company, was ordered to be thrown 



8 , open. 



j 1 The Bengal Government were directed to leave 

 ,e 1 (b 2) the 



