208 



RAW -SILK. 



(L.) fuel ; though a considerable reduction will also be 

 Board of Trade fQ^j^ (J to havc been made in the items under the 



Report, 



10 Oct. 1833. head of petty and cocoonery charges. 



Originally the basins and reels used at Howrah 

 were of various kinds, but under the Board's recent 

 instructions, they have all been converted into the 

 Shakespearian pottery plan, with exception of 

 Mr. Becher's quad and double basins, which remain 

 unaltered. 



The cocoons hitherto worked off have been ob- 

 tained exclusively from the Hurripaul and Radna- 

 gore aurungs, with exception to a small supply 

 received during the past March bund from the 

 CommercoUy district, and which yielded 1 maund 

 23 seers 12 chittacks of silk. 



