RAW-SILK. 



71 



rupees, leaves a profit of six to the ryot for his (G.) 

 labour, &c. J^'T k """i, 



' Dr. Roxburgh 



to Board of 



Trade, 

 23 Nov. 1812. 



Ordered, That copies of the letter and enclo- 

 sure from the Superintendent of the Botanical 

 Garden of the 23d November 1812, together with 

 extracts of the general letters from the Honourable 

 the Court of Directors, under dates the 2d June 

 and 16th September last, be transmitted to the 

 several Residents providing raw-silk, with infor- 

 mation that the observations and orders of the 

 Board thereon will be transmitted to them here- 

 after. 



No. 3. 



Extracts from several Letters from the Court of 

 Directors to the Governor-general in Council, 

 Bengal, 



Extract Letter, dated llth May 1826. 

 We have perused the correspondence of the Letter to 



. . Bengal, 



Resident with the Board of Trade, having for its n May i826. 

 object the obtaining of their permission to institute 

 an experiment in a new system * of cultivating the 



mulberry 



* Neez, or domestic, in contradistinction to the common 

 cultivation by the ryots. 



