BAW-SILK. 



xliii 



dispose of the filatures by public auction ; but up Report, 

 to the date of the latest advices the greater part of 

 them still remained in the Company's hands. The 

 Government, however, considered it to be conso- 

 nant with the orders for the gradual abandonment 

 of the trade in raw-silk, to limit the further supply 

 to the quantity which could be manufactured at 

 the Company's own filatures. It resolved, there- 

 fore, that the hired native filatures should be given 

 up, and the purchase of silk by contract discon- 

 tinued, from which two sources a portion of the 

 investment had always been derived. 



In the Appendix M will be found statements 

 of the number of filatures, both Company's ai^d 

 Hired, as they stood in March 1832. 



