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sider it necessary that any specimens of them werefurnished.
2. I shall have much pleasure, however, in availingmyself of the offer you are so kind as to make to procurespecimens of the articles referred to in the 4th and 5thparagraphs.
3. Under the explanation conveyed in the Gth, 7th,and 8th paragraphs, I would not wish you to furnish mewith specimens or models of the articles therein referredto; unless you have any reason to suppose that the loomsused in the district of Shorapore differ from those ofother parts of the Nizam’s dominions. In this case it willno doubt he desirable that models of them be furnished,constructed on a moderate scale, and of a convenient sizefor carriage.
4. Samples of the cotton grown in Shorapore, I think,would be acceptable, and I beg therefore that you will beprepared to send them of every kind, accompanied by anexplanatory memorandum of the soil on which they aregrown, the prices for which they can be produced, thepurposes to which they are applied, whether for homeconsumption or exportation, and whether the culture ofcotton is susceptible of any considerable extension, be-yond the quantity now produced in Shorapore and theneighbouring districts. Every information regarding thecotton produced in the Nizam’s country will be consideredhighly valuable in England.
5. If the wool alluded to in the 10th paragraph is ofthe same quality as that of Jaulnah and the Deccan gene-rally, it will be unnecessary, in my opinion, to send any ;and the same remark may he made with respect to thefine and coarse cumblies made from the wool, as the ma-nufacture of these articles probably does not differ fromthat of other parts of the Nizam’s country.
(1. Samples of the fine and coarse yarns mentioned inthe 11th paragraph may he sent, if you have reason tosuppose that they differ in any essential respect, or aresuperior in quality, to those produced in other parts ofthe country.
7. A collection of specimens of minerals might, 1 think,be sent with propriety ; and if not approved by the Secun-derabad Committee, with w hich will rest the duty of ulti-mate selection, it will he carefully returned to you.
8. The subject noted in the 13th paragraph is disposedof in a letter from the Government of India, of which Ihave the honour to transmit a copy for your information.
9. The objects referred to in the 14th and concludingparagraph of your letter, will, I think, form an interest-ing portion of the general collection to be transmittedfrom the Nizam’s country.
10. The articles you may be so good as to forward toSecunderabad, to the address of the Committee, if fur-nished from any part of the Nizam’s country, will be paidfor by the Nizam’s Government; but those procured fromthe Shorapore district itself, should, I think, be paid bythat State.
11. 1 shall submit a copy of your letter now underacknowledgment, and of the lists to which it gave cover,as well as of this reply, for the information of the Secun-derabad Committee; and shall not fail to communicate toyou hereafter any suggestions with which the Committee may kindly favour me after perusal of these papers.
(Signed) J. S. Fraser, Resident.
(True Copy.) Cum. Davidson,
Officiating Assistant Resident.
Resolved,—That the best thanks of the Committeebe given to Major-General Fraser, for his kindness infavouring them with the above correspondence, whichwill be recorded, and which the Committee gladly availthemselves of his permission to make generally known.
College, Madras, 22nd June 1850.
Sir,^—I have the honour, by desire of the Madras Cen-tral Committee, to annex copy of a resolution of themeeting ot this day, and at the same time to express theCentral Committee s best thanks for your having commu-nicated and placed at their disposal the useful and variedinformation contained in the several reports from the
officers of II. II. the Nizam’s
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composing the Committees assembled under your d 11tion to report on the products and resources utNizam’s territories.
(Signed) Edwahd Bali our, „Secretary to it. o-
'To Major-General Fraser, $c.,
List of Articles furnished by Nawab Siraj-ui-ABahadur, Minister to His Highness the Ni2 A5Hyderabad .
Hyderabad Residency, 27th September l8a0' ^Sir,—I am greatly obliged by the polite oiler youmade, of furnishing certain articles for transmissionthe National Exhibition of 1851. _ „
2. I have communicated this offer to the gentlun ^
who form the Secunderabad Committee, with a vie^their acquainting me which of these several article*’ ^may be desirable to accept and transmit to England > ’it is not the object of the Supreme Government, ‘either duplicates should be forwarded from hence, <’ 1 ■* Athing else than what is peculiar to llis HighnessNizam’s country. _ • r to
3. I shall do myself the honour of communicatmfc ^
you hereafter the reply which 1 may receive fromCommittee . t0
4. In the mean time I request you will be so goodlet me know in what manner you would wish theyou are now so good as to offer, to be ultimately
of after their exhibition in England; whether to be Jin England on your account, or given up to any a fc o pwhom you may appoint in London , for the purposetaking charge of them and returning them to India -I have, &e(Signed)
(True copy.)
J. S. Fraser, Resided-Cuth. Davidson,
Assistant Resided •
lb Siraj-ui.-Mui.k Bahadur,
Hyderabad , 30 th September 18-5ff- ^Sir,—I have been favoured with your letter of yus* 1 ’ 1day’s date. , j
With reference to the last paragraph of your * ct j!’q oSbeg to say that 1 am not desirous that any of thewhich may be forwarded by me to the National E*bition should be returned to me, or sold on my ao CA>11and I therefore leave it entirely to you and the fte” j umen of the Committee, either to place the articjquestion, after their exhibition, in a museum, or i> ( |the proceeds to be given to any of the charitable i* 16tious in Loudon. i llC -
1 shall be obliged by your kindly making 'I'J'quainted with the latest date on which articles in' 01for the Exhibition should he sent from hence.
1 have, &c.,
SlltAJ-UL-
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Translation (furnished by Siraj-ul-Mulk Bahailu> ) Al))List of Artici.es manufactured at AurUN° t ] l( ,in the Hyderabad Territories, intended r t'sNawab Siraj-ul-Mulk Bahadur for Prince AExhibition in London .
at'dsAkl ,a j
Variety of sets of lace (Kinaree), viz.:
Elegant embroidered luce, each piece Iff )’ ^ ...
length, from 3 to 10 Its. per yard; gold lace of the ^, r
rabad (Agra ) pattern of deep colour, at 2-11 of
toluli; silver lace of the Akbnrabad (Agra ) path-deep colour, at 2 Its. per toluli.
Each set of lace weighs 12 tolahs. Its-
Gold lace (stamped figures) of deep colour, at - ] 0 iir,per tolali; silver lace (stamped figures), of cut
at 2 Its. per toluli; narrow gold lace (gota), diam