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from actual trial, it forms an equally elegant, and much 
more durable carpeting than wool. 
The committee feel a degree of pride in having to state, 
that this invention, which converts a hitherto useless refuse, 
into a useful and highly important branch of manufacture 
has originated in our own state; and we feel a degree of 
confidence, that a discovery of so much real practical im¬ 
portance, will meet with the patronage of the public gener¬ 
ally ; but particularly of the legislature. 
E. C. GENET, 
JAMES LOW, 
HORATIO GATES SPAFFORD. 
A true copy, 
T. ROMEYN BECK, Rec. Sec’nj. 
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