INDIGO. 



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The reasonings of the Board of Trade for giving Bengal** 

 sugar a preference over this commodity are satis- s July 1795. 

 factory. The advantages derivable to Bengal 

 from its cultivation are nevertheless too important 

 to be lost sight of. The proposition alluded to 

 in that minute, of providing it by contract for six 

 per cent, promissory notes, if made by the Board 

 of Trade, will, we trust, have met your concur- 

 rence, or that some other means will have been 

 devised for furnishing the usual supply to this 

 country. We enclose, as usual, the account sales 

 of each contractor's supply. 



No. 10. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor-general in Council^ Bengal, dated 

 the 3d February 1796. 



Par. 34. Having perused the very voluminous Letter to 

 papers to which you have referred us, on the sub- 3 Febl^ms. 

 ject of the Europeans who have lately settled in 

 the zemindarry of Benares as indigo -planters, we 

 approve of your several orders and resolutions 

 relative thereto, as contained in your letters to the 

 Resident of the 7th March and 23d May 1794, 

 and we trust that the late Regulations will effec- 

 tually tend to remedy those abuses, of which there 

 appeared too much reason to complain. 



35. We concur with you in opinion, that though 

 D 2 it 



