86 RAW-SILK. 



(H.) quantity ordered. At Santipore only twenty-two 



Letter from vnaunds havc been manufactured ; but as the Cut- 

 Board of Irade, ^ 



22 Feb. 1828. tauies, who have been instructed by Mr. Wilkin- 

 son, will have no difficulty in completing the 

 remainder of the order, and as the Resident at 

 Rungpore has fully informed himself of the prin- 

 ciple and application of the patent, we are not 

 aware that there is any objection to Mr. Wilkin- 

 son's being permitted to quit India. 



No. 4. 



Extract Letters from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor-general in Council, dated the lOth 

 June 1829 and I6th June 1830. 



Extract Letter dated lOth June 1829. 

 Letter to q reccivcd in the last season, by the ships 



Bengal, ^ - 



10 June 1829. Wuvren Hastings and Zenobia, thirty bales of silk, 

 described as having been manufactured by means 

 of the patent reel referred to in the Report of the 

 Board of Trade to your Government, dated the 

 1st May 1827. Of these bales, fifteen were reeled 

 at the Rungpore and fifteen at the Santipore 

 factory. 



Fourteen of the bales in question have been 

 brought forward at our sales in February 1829, 

 and we have no reason to believe, either from the 



opinion 



