INDIGO. 



61 



No. 15. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor-general in Council, Bengal, dated 

 the ^\st August 1804. 



Par. 155 to 157. Proprietors of Indigo works request the erec- 

 tion of new works within limited distances may be prohibited. 



Par. 40. We are aware that the interests of the Letter to 

 indigo manufacturers have repeatedly suffered by 31 i^g!^^804. 

 the indiscreet competition of new adventurers ; 

 but we cannot approve the principle of an inter- 

 ference on the part of Government to check such 

 an evil, and think that you did well in refusing 

 your sanction to the proposal of the established 

 manufacturers. Since, however, the inconveni- 

 ences of which they complain may also have con- 

 tributed to the repeated calls made on the Com- 

 pany, to relieve the distresses under which this 

 branch of manufacture laboured, we are the more 

 disposed to wish that new enterprizes may be un- 

 dertaken with prudence, and that the cultivators 

 may avoid collisions, by friendly correspondence 

 among themselves, and by mutually restraining 

 their servants from issuing advances to those ryots 

 who may be under previous engagements. 



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