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therein referred to, on the subject of the paper manufactured by Mr. 

 Ondaatjie, and to request that you will be so good as to communicate 

 the same to him. 



I have, (fee 

 (Signed) W. D. Wright, 



for Agent. 



The Assistant Govt. Agent, Badulla. 



No. 422. Colonial Secretary's Office, 



Colombo, Zrd September, J 857. 

 SlE,— With reference to your letter No. 141, of the 26th March last, I 

 am directed to transmit to you a letter received from the Deputy Com- 

 missary General, on the subject of the paper manufactured by Mr. 

 Ondaatjie, and to request that the same may be communicated to him. 

 That officer lias been instructed to pay Mr. Ondaatjie for the paper 

 supplied by him. 



I have, &c. , 

 (Signed) C. J.[MacCarthy. 



The Govt. Agent, Kandy. 



No. 207. Deputy Commissary General's Office, 



Colombo, 25th August, 1857. 

 Sir, — The Correspondence liereAvith returned from the Government 

 Agent at Kandv, and his Assistant at Badulla, respecting the specimens 

 of paper manufactured by Mr. Ondaatjie, was referred to me with your 

 letter of the 5th June last, and I should have replied to it sooner, but 

 that I waited to be able to examine the paper lately received from 

 England, and in the hope that the Invoice shewing the latest prices of 

 paper would hare arrived ; but it has not yet reached me. 



2. It appears to me that there are three distinct questions raised in 

 the Correspondence. 



1st.— The substitution to a certain " extent" (a difficult term to define) 

 of Mr. Ondaatjic's papers for the commoner descriptions of paper, such 

 as Lumberhand, Common Foolscap, and Blotting Paper, which are now 

 imported from England. 



2nd. — The proposal to issue f.ee cf payment Mr. Ondaatjic's paper 

 to headmen in the districts for returns, or other documents for which 

 either olas are now used, or for which they are not allowed stationery. 



3rd.— The comparative price between Mr. Ondaatjic's paper and 

 imported paper. 



3. It appears to me that the specimens of paper forwarded w ; .th 

 the Government Agent's letter of 26th March last. (No. X, here- 



