110 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [2ND SEASON. 



tween them, wliicli was to be called the " lint room." 

 On the ground floor, the centre room was to be occupied 

 by the wheels belonging to the driving machinery, whilst 

 the two end rooms were to be used as store rooms. 

 The wheels in the lower room would be connected with 

 the gins in the upper rooms by a single band passing 

 through the wall and floor, at an angle of about forty- 

 five degrees. By this plan the gin would receive the 

 compound motion it required. The saw cylinder and 

 the brush wheel revolve in opposite directions ; the 

 brush wheel with an accelerated motion of about five 

 revolutions to one revolution of the saw cylinder, which 

 is effected by proportioning the size of the cylinder and 

 brush wheels. The great desideratum in India was to 

 drive both with one band. This object Mr. Finnie 

 proposed to effect by passing the under part of the 

 band over the brush wheel, and thus driving it in an 

 Minutes of opposite direction to that in which it 

 Consuita- drives the cylinder. After some little dis- 

 Sent 1 ?^ cussion, the erection of the gin-house at 

 Pari. 'Return Sevacausey on the above plan was finally 

 (1857), p. 364. ganct i one( i at a cogt f 2699 rupees. 



Hire of a temporary (Jin-house at Aroopoocottah. — 



The discussions about the driving machinery and gin- 

 house had commenced about the latter end of 1846, 

 but sanction for the erection of the gin-house was not 

 obtained until September, 1847. Meantime the gather- 

 ing season for 1847 had passed away. Mr. fmnie, 

 however, had not suffered the time to be lost without 

 some show of effort. He had three hand gins in his 

 possession, two of twenty-five saw wheels, and one of 

 twenty saw wheels ; and he professed to be still anxious 



Mr. Einnie's to assist J)r ' Wig ht in completing the 

 letter, 23rd Court's order for six thousand bales. Ac- 

 Parh Return cordingly, about the commencement of the 

 (1857), p. 279. gathering season, he induced the head man 

 at Aroopoocottah to rent him a house at seven rupees 

 (14^.) a month, and a godown at three rupees (6s.) a 

 month, for the purpose of ginning Cotton to complete 

 the Court's order. 



