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INDIGO. 



Bengar subjcct, comc to a resolution, to decline all further 

 28 March 1788. concems iu indigo (any engagements you may 

 have entered into with Mr. Boyce, excepted), for 

 the term of three years, to commence from the 

 receipt of these our advices in Bengal, and that 

 one year's notice be given of any future resump- 

 tion of the same by the Company ; during which 

 period we permit of its being sent home, on the 

 account of our servants and all others under our 

 protection, upon payment of freight. Company's 

 duties, and charges, in the same manner as took 

 place respecting the article of raw-silk. 



43. We are led to the measure of laying open 

 this branch of trade, in the hopes that it will create 

 among individuals that kind of competition, which 

 will not fail to operate in bringing the article to 

 its greatest possible state of perfection, and as 

 well as to ascertain the lowest rate at which it is 

 possible to be manufactured : in addition to which, 

 we conceive that it will afford the Company's 

 servants a legal, ample, and we hope, advantageous 

 mode of remitting their fortunes to Europe, and, 

 of course, be the means, as far as it shall extend, 

 which we are assured may be to a very consider- 

 able amount, of depriving foreigners of those re- 

 sources which they have been so successful in pro- 

 curing, for carrying on their commerce, to the great 

 injury of the Company as well as the nation at large. 



44. The samples transmitted of the manufacture 

 of Mr. Boyce, having been inspected by a gentle- 

 man 



