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several ships away by the times before mentioned, you may pretty well for m a
judgment as to their arrival at their destined ports in general and of those in
particular which fall to your department and may be the better able to make
the necessary dispositions, as well for the securing as much as lies in your
power the safety of their import as the forwarding their dispatch without
loss of time according to their several destinations.

16. The arrival and departure of the Company's shipping will as usual be
sent you in lists certified by our Secretary to which therefore you are referred.

17. Lists of free merchants and all other persons who shall obtain our
leave to reside in India will likewise be transmitted in the same manner.

18. That you may have a general idea of the intended export on the before
mentioned ships as well for the several parts of India and China as to your
Presidency in particular, we are to inform you that a considerable part of the
tonnage will be taken up by the passage of military recruits and the extra-
ordinary quantity of military and other stores indented for. The number of
recruits and particulars of dbe stores for the service and use of the Fort William
Presidency you will be fully informed of by the lists and invoices which will
be transmitted by the respective ships.

19. The Government will send nearly in equal proportions on the 6 Coast
and China ships 273 tons of naval and 310 tons of vitualling stores for the use
of His Majesty's ships and about 25 tons of cloathing for Colonel Draper's
battaUion, all which are to be delivered at Fort St. George.

2ft. We have mentioned above that a considerable part of the tonnage
will be taken up with military stores ; the cannon shot, shells etc., intended for
your Presidency only will amount to 550 tons and those for Fort St. George
S8Q tons.

21. The mercantile part of our export will consist principally of wollen
goods, copper, lead and iron. The two latter articles for our Presidencies being
in smaller quantities than usual are rather intended to supply the necessity
our settlements may be in for them than with a view of trade ; you will be the
best judges of what use ought to be made of those consigned to you and we
shall accordingly depend upon your acting therein for the best.

22. The intended export is in general proposed to consist of about the

quantities viz.,

For "Bengal

832 bales of doth, 162 bales of long ells of 20 pieces in each and 200 bales do
of 10 pieces in each and one bale of flannels for cartridges to be shipped viz.,
37® bales on the Duke of Dorset
408 on ttse Storm&nt
417 on tibte New Ship, Capt Lindsay.
3^9 tans of copper viz.,

10® torn oa die Stormant
*<*„„„ New Ship, Capt. Lfodsay
7® „ M „ Lbtke of Ehrset and

40 torn of lead and 40 cons iron to be laden in equal quantities on the shinfr
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