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1. Extract Letter from the Bengal Board of Trade to the Vice- 



President in Council, dated 29th July 1831, referring to 

 new ghyes^ or furnaces, invented by the Residents at Rad- 

 nagore and Soonamooky, and suggesting the expediency of 

 establishing an Experimental Filature, for ascertaining the 

 relative merits of the same, and of other inventions for the 

 improvements of Silk. 



2. Extract Letter from the Bengal Board of Trade to the Vice- 



President in Council, dated 20th August 1832, reporting 

 the experiments at the said Filature, and recommending the 

 construction of pottery ghyes at all the factories where the 

 old standard basins are used, and where the alteration can 

 be effected without impeding the current work. 



3. Explanation of the New Pottery Ghye Apparatus for spinning 



Raw-Silk, composed b}^ Mr. Colin Shakespear, Resident at 

 Soonamooky. 



4. Extract Letter from the Secretary to the Bengal Government 



to the Board of Trade, conveying the concurrence of Govern- 

 ment in the Board's opinion of the superior merit of the 

 pottery ghyes, and directing the Board to issue the requisite 

 instructions for their gradual or immediate adoption. 



5. Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to the Governor- 



general in Council, Bengal, dated the lith September 1833, 

 regarding the quality of two specimens of Silk spun at the 

 Experimental Filature. 



6. Minute of the Bengal Board of Trade, 10th October 1833, 



containing the report of their Secretary of the operations 

 carried on at the Experimental Filature whilst under his 

 supervision, with a statement of the manufacturing charges 

 thereat, contrasted with those incurred at the neighbouring 

 Filatur^ at Cuttorah. 



