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RAW-SILK. 



(L.) improvements which have from time to time been 

 Boa^rdofTrrde, Suggested to the Board by ingenious individuals 

 29 July 1831. ^ealous for the improvement of the silk. 



No. 2. 



Extract Letter from the Bengal Board of Trade 

 to the Honourable the Vice-Fresideiit in Council, 

 dated the 20th August 1832. 



B^TfTr^e On the receipt of Mr. Acting Secretary Bushby's 

 20 Aug. 1832. letter of the 9th August, conveying the sanction of 

 your Honour in Council for the erection of this 

 filature, we addressed a circular letter* to the Silk 

 Residents, directing them to submit any observa- 

 tions they might have to offer on the existing 

 system in all its details under which silk is manu- 

 factured at the Company's factories, and to state 

 in what respects the process of manufacture was 

 susceptible of improvement, both with a view to 

 economy and perfecting the quality of the silk. 



Messrs. Becher, Shakespear, and Richardson, 

 who had previously submitted plans (that of the 

 latter being a ghye invented by Captain Somer- 

 ville), were particularly called upon to commu- 

 nicate any further observations which experience 

 had enabled them to make, on the practical advan- 

 tages 



* Of the l6th August 1831. 



