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lA'DIGO. 



No. 23. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor -general 'm Council, Bengal, dated 

 the 1th June 1826. 



Letter to Par. 2. We have noticed that the draft of the 

 7 junl^i826. advertisement, as proposed by the Board of Trade, 

 differed from former practice, by limiting their 

 intended purchases to indigo manufactured in the 

 Lower Provinces ; and we approve of your having, 

 in your letter to the Board of Trade of the 24th 

 of November 1825, directed the usual form of 

 advertisement to be continued. We entirely con- 

 cur in your observation, that there is not any good 

 reason for excluding western indigo from the in- 

 vitation, if it be equal to the fixed standards ; and 

 should it be bad, the tender will, of course, be 

 rejected. And we take this opportunity of noticing, 

 that the western indigo is liable to greater loss of 

 weight by wastage than that of the lower pro- 

 vinces, owing, as we understand, to the haste with 

 which it is packed up, in order to its arrival at 

 Calcutta in the usual shipping season. This is a 

 point for the practical application of your officers 

 who superintend the purchases. 



