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REPORT ON 



Report. filature were discontinued, and it was placed under 

 the charge of the Radnagore Resident, to aid in 

 furnishing the investment from his district. 



The Bengal Government was informed by the 

 Court's letter dated 23d July 1833, that under the 

 provisions of the Bill then in progress through Par- 

 liament, the Company's trade with India and China 

 would cease, but that the purchase of silk was to 

 be continued for 1834; and by the Court's letter 

 29th January 1834 it was intimated, that the pro- 

 vision of silk should also be carried on in 1835, at 

 such filatures as should then remain in the Com- 

 pany's possession ; but Government was directed 

 to take measures for the disposal of the silk 

 factories with as much expedition as was consistent 

 with prudence. The injunction to use prudence 

 being understood to refer less to the pecuniary 

 gain or loss of the Company, than to the interests 

 of the people and to the keeping up the supply of 

 silk for this country, it was declared the silk- 

 growers should not suddenly be deserted, unless 

 there were capitalists ready to carry on the fila- 

 tures, even though some loss should be incurred in 

 protecting them. 



In consequence of these instructions, attempts 

 were made in 1835 by the Bengal Government to 



dispose 



