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Report. mated a hope, that the provision under this order 

 would not eventually fall far short of 8000 hales, 

 of which the larger part should, of course, consist 

 of filature silk, and the remainder of country 

 wound. The views which led the Court to issue 

 these directions are explained in the Appendix D. 



In convevino; these orders, the Court, advertin^r 

 to the system under which the filatures were sup- 

 plied with cocoons, directed the Government to 

 consider whether it might not be practicable, to a 

 certain extent, to establish mulberry plantations 

 on their own account, so as to render the invest- 

 ment in a considerable degree independent of 

 other sources of supply. 



In order to remove some uncertainty which had 

 prevailed, as to the exact sizes or threads of the 

 difiPerent distinctions of filature silk desired to 

 be provided, the Court in 1816 transmitted to 

 Bengal sets of regulating musters, marked with 

 the names of the factories to which they respec- 

 tively applied, and directed that the silk should in 

 future be manufactured strictly in conformity with 

 them. On this occasion the Court's order was 

 for 5,500 bales, and the whole of it if possible was 

 to be furnished of filature-wound silk. The quan- 

 tity which it was desired to derive from each 



factory, 



