88 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [1ST SEASON. 



Mr. Simpson, another American Planter, on the very 

 ground urged by Mr. Pinnie; namely, that if the 

 Planters appeared as purchasers, their instructions 

 would command greater attention than would be given 

 to mere abstract recommendations. Accordingly, a 

 Minutes of similar permission was granted to Mr. Pin- 

 Consuita- nie, but under the same restrictions as 

 * Aug!, 1 ! !^. those imposed at Bombay ; namely, that 

 a857) Ret 265 P urcnases should he restricted to Cot- 



' i ' p ' ' ton ginned and prepared on the American 

 principle. 



140 Restriction removed. — Mr. Pinnie appealed strongly 



against the restriction to ginned Cotton. 



^ter ,i 28tn 3S ^ e re P ea ^ e ^ au his previous objections to 

 Aug., 1846. the use of the gin. He again stated that 

 ^57)^268. wna ^ was wanted was a machine like a 

 thresher to clean the staple, before the 

 people had separated it from the seed by the churka. 

 At the same time Mr. Pinnie requested permission to 

 connect himself with a house or houses of Agency, as 

 Minutes of he f° un( l it impossible for an isolated in- 

 Consuita- dividual to trade in Cotton. Both these 

 Nov'.fisL. requests were conceded by the Madras 

 ParL ,R etum Government; and thus Mr. Pinnie was 

 ' p ' ' allowed to act as general Agent for the 

 supply of Cotton, and to connect himself with any of 

 the houses of Agency. 



141 Mr. Finnie's first year's proceedings with the 

 Clxurka, Thresher, and Gin. — Up to this point there 

 appears to have been no breach between Dr. Wight 

 Dr. Wight's an(i Mr - Pinnie. Dr. "Wight supplied Mr. 

 Mter^28th Pinnie with three saw gins, — two of twenty- 

 Part Return five saws, and one of twenty saws, — to be 

 (1857), p. 266. wor ked by hand. He requested that Mr. 

 Pinnie might be furnished with sufficient funds for the 

 purchase of seed Cotton to keep his three gins at work. 

 He even represented to the Madras Government the 

 propriety of purchasing four or five hundred bales of 

 the best churkaed Cotton, to be cleaned by the thresher, 

 and then to be sent to England, in order to ascertain 

 what the best Native Cotton would realize in the 



