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products into Malabar, to procure a small supply of the Jamaica 

 Ginger which appears to have been successfully grown in the Hor- 

 ticultural Gardens at Madras. 



1st. I need hardly remark that the Jamaica Ginger is likely 

 to grow well and prove a valuable addition to our products in Ma- 

 labar, where hundreds of tons of Ginger are annually grown. 



Copy of this letter will be communicated to the Committee of 

 the Horticultural Society with a request that they will enable the 

 Board to comply with Mr. Brown's request. 



2nd. The Board understand that the Director of the Govern- 

 ment Garden at Peridinnia near Kandy in Ceylon, will be prepared 

 to furnish a supply of this article should a further quantity be re- 

 quired for distribution. 



(Signed) J. Hudleston, 



Acting Secretary. 



Resolved, that the foregoing be complied with and some roots 

 be despatched to the Collector of Malabar for transmission to Mr. 

 Brown. 



Read the following Extract (para 6) of the Proceedings of Go- 

 vernment, dated 14th September 1859, relative to the People's 

 Park. 



6. Mr. Brown, the Superintendent of the Horticultural Gardens, 

 will undertake the immediate charge of these works under the di- 

 rections of the Committee, drawing for this duty an additional al- 

 lowance of fifty (50) .Rupees a month, and every bill connected 

 with the expenses which may be incurred on account of the Park 

 must, prior to its submission to Government, be certified by Mr. 

 Brown and countersigned by the Secretary to the Committe. It 

 will then be passed for payment from the fund, in the hands of the 

 Municipal Commissioners arising from the sale of the adjoining 

 allotments on the esplanade of Black Town, which already amounts 

 to upwards of 20,000 Rs. Mr. Brown's additional stipend will 

 be paid from the same source. 



With reference to the foregoing arrangement, then anticipated, 

 the orders of the Committee have been already passed (vide An- 

 nual Report.) 



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