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ravv-silk could be successfully brought into use Report, 

 in their respective manufactories to a very con- 

 siderable extent, in lieu of a portion of the thrown 

 silk supplied from Italy, and hoped the Court 

 would persevere in the measure, as it would not 

 fail of proving highly beneficial to the national 

 interest/' 



The Court being thus warranted to persevere 

 by the call of the principal consumers, w^hose tes- 

 timony was sufficient to silence all doubts with 

 regard to the propriety of the measure, and it 

 being satisfactorily established that Bengal raw- 

 silk could be thrown into organzine in this 

 country, with every prospect of advantage both 

 to the Company and to the public, orders were 

 issued to extend their consignments of silk from 

 Bengal to 4,000 bales per annum. 



The Court also communicated* to the silk trade 

 its intention of continuing, from time to time, 

 to have recourse to throw Bengal raw-silk to as 

 great an extent as might be expedient. But to 

 remove all apprehension that the Company might 

 hereafter ensao-e in throwing^ their silk into sin- 

 gles, trams, sewing-silks, and other articles, the 

 Court thought proper publicly to announce, f that 



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* Minutes, 30th Dec. 1796. f Minutes, 5tli Feb. 1796. 



