108 K AW -SILK. 



No, 5. 



Minute of the Board of Trade, '22d October 1832, 

 a?id Letter to the Bengal Government. 



(K.) 



Minute of the The Secretary havino; reported that he has sup- 

 Board of Trade, ^ J & r ^ r 

 22 Oct. 1832. plied the Secretary to the Agricultural and Horti- 

 cultural Society with a portion of the silk-worms' 

 eggs applied for in the above letter : 

 • Agreed, We address the Vice-President in 

 Council as follows. 



To the Honourable Sir C. T. Metcalfe^ Bart., Vice- 

 President in Council, Fort William. 



Honourable Sir : 



Letter from V/ e haVG the hoUOUr to acknowledge the re- 



Board of Trade. . r. -R/r o -Tk • 1 ' ' 



ceipt oi Mr. Secretary Prinsep s communication 

 of the 9th instant, and in reply, beg leave to state, 

 for the information of your Honourable Board, 

 that we have distributed with suitable instructions 

 the silk-worms' eggs received from the Superin- 

 tendent of the Botanic Garden at Dapooree, 

 amongst the four Commercial Residents of Bau- 

 leah, Soonamooky, Hurripaul, and Commercolly. 



We have likewise provided the Committee of 

 the Horticultural and Agricultural Society super- 

 intending the experimental farm at Akia with a 

 supply of these eggs ; and as they have expressed 

 a wish to be furnished with the cuttings of the 



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