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INDIGO. 



Letter to mcasure anticipate the Board's recommendations 



Bengal, 



25 June 1793. in the relief then afforded, both as to tonnage and 

 freight, and from these aids^ combined with the 

 present prices, we are much inclined to think the 

 article cannot fail of rendering a productive ac- 

 count ; but as our Board of Trade, in whose zeal 

 and integrity in the management of our commercial 

 concerns we place the strongest reliance, must, 

 from their situation and local knowledge, be more 

 competent to form a correct judgment in this 

 respect than ourselves, we have resolved to invest 

 them with a discretionary power of yielding a 

 still further indulgence, should they see it needful, 

 by consenting that from the sale amount of all 

 indigo manufactured with Company's advances, 

 under the system that has lately prevailed, the 

 whole of the five per cent. Company's duty be 

 remitted, and that in all subsequent engagements 

 that shall be made while the above-mentioned 

 system shall exist, there shall be a deduction only 

 of freight at the rate of 15/. per ton of twenty 

 hundred or by measurement^ as the owners may 

 elect, and two per cent, as a commutation for the 

 various charges to which we are subject, which, 

 when the nature of them are considered, such as 

 hoyage, wharfage, warehouse-room, labour, print- 

 ing of catalogues, &c., with the addition of one- 

 half per cent, to a broker for assorting, appraising, 

 &c., we are satisfied is not more than equal to an 

 actual reimbursement of our expenditure. 



111. We 



