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RAW -SILK. 



No. 3. 



Letter from the Bengal Government to the Board 

 of Trade, dated the lOth May 1827. 



(H.) 



Letter to J am directed to acknowledge the receipt of 



Board of Trade, , ^ ^ 



ioMayi827. your letter of 1st instant, with its enclosures, and 

 to state that, under the circumstances represented 

 therein, and in conformity to your recommenda- 

 tion, the Right Honourable the Vice-President in 

 Council is pleased to sanction the adoption, ex- 

 perimentally, of the plan of winding filature raw- 

 silk by means of the new patent reel, invented by 

 Messrs. Heathcoate and Co., on the terms proposed 

 by their agents, Messrs. Alexander and Co., and 

 in the manner suggested by your Board in the last 

 paragraph of your letter. 



2. You are accordingly requested to take the 

 necessary measures for giving effect to the fore- 

 going resolution, communicating the result in due 

 time for the information of Government and the 

 Honourable the Court of Directors. 



