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INDIGO. 



No. 3. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor- general in Cou?2cil, Bengal, dated 

 the 27th March 1787. 



Letter to Par. 263. Application having been made to us 

 27 March ]787. by Mr. Robert Heaven, for permission to proceed 

 to Bengal to apply himself to the cultivation and 

 improvement of sugar, cotton, and indigo, and 

 being well satisfied with the qualifications of Mr. 

 Heaven, who for thirteen years past has employed 

 his talents in the culture of those valuable articles 

 in the West Indies, we have permitted him to pro- 

 ceed to your Presidency and remain there five 

 years, under the usual covenants and restrictions 

 entered into by persons allowed to proceed to 

 India to practice in the way of their profession ; 

 except as to trade, which part he is to be per- 

 mitted to carry on only in the particular articles 

 of indigo, sugar, and cotton, of his own manufac- 

 ture, and that in common with every other person 

 engaged in the same pursuits, without being 

 granted any particular or exclusive privileges, 

 that may in any measure tend to a monopoly in 

 those articles. 



