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APPENDIX II. 
Districts from which the Principal Firms in India who manu- 
i^ACTURE Shellac import Stick-lac. 
Enquiries were addressed to the four principal firms on the subject 
as to where they procured their stick-lac from. 
The following reply was courteously forwarded by Mesits. Jardine, 
Skinner & Co. of Calcutta : — 
1. The following are the districts from which we import stick-lac ; — 
Raipur, Bilaspur (Central Provinces) ; Manbhum, Singbhum, Lohar- 
dagga, Hazaribagh, Santhal Parganas, Gya, Palamau (Bengal) ; Mirza- 
pur (United Provinces) ; Jubbulpur, Hoshangabad (Central Provinces) ; 
Rewah Native States (Central India). 
2. Annual outturn of shellac, 1905-06, was about 6,000 maunds 
= R 7,20,000 
3. We manufacture first quality lac-dye selling at R6 per maund 
G. I. C. P, 0.— No. 74 R. & A.— 22-1-1908.— 700.— A G. J. 
