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No. L 



Extract Letter from the Bengal Board of Trade 

 to the Honourable the Vice-President in Council y 

 dated the 29th July 1831. 



(L.) 



We have now the honour to report, that the Letter from 



Board of Trade, 



senior Member of our Board proceeded to the Rad- 29 July issi. 

 nagore aurungs for the purpose of inspecting some 

 of the filatures, the ghyes of which had recently 

 been altered after a plan proposed by the Resi- 

 dent, Mr. Becher, and sanctioned for all the Rad- 

 nacrore filatures, as intimated in Mr. Officiatins: 

 Secretary Bushby's Letter of the 3d May last. 



It will be in the recollection of your Honour in 

 Council, that Mr. Beeher s plans had for their 

 object, first a saving of fuel equal to seventy-five 

 per cent., as compared with the quantity consumed 

 in the ordinary ghyes or furnaces. Secondly, a 

 small saving in the mode of supplying water for 

 the basins, by means of pipes with cocks, for con- 

 ducting it from a reservoir erected near a tank, 

 whence the water is drawn in a perfectly clear 

 state by buckets dipping into the centre of the 

 tank, instead of the usual mode of drawing it from 

 the side, where it is more or less dirty. Thirdly, 

 to give double the number of basins in the same 

 filatures, should they require to be all used toge- 

 ther. 



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