do. commission |
          on L604,500 42,315 |
                          ---------- |
                            L653,315 |
[F] 6. " Balance 562,185 |
                          ---------- | ----------
                          L1,215,500 | L1,215,500

[A] 1.  The sale amount is computed on an average of the sales of the two last years’ imports.

[B] 2.  The custom is computed on an average of what was paid on piece-goods and raw silk of said imports, adding additional imposts.

[C] 3.  The ships going out of this season, (1782,) by which the above investment is expected to be sent home, are taken up at 47_l._ 5_s._ per ton, for the homeward cargo; this charge amounts to 35,815_l._ each ship; the additional wages to the men, which the Company pay, and a very small charge for demurrage, will increase the freight, &c., to 40,000_l._ per ship, agreeable to above estimate.

[D] 4.  The duty of five per cent is charged by the Company on the gross sale amount of all private trade licensed to be brought from India:  the amount of this duty is the only benefit the Company are likely to receive from the subscription investment.

[E] 5.  This charge is likewise made on private trade goods, and is little, if anything, more than the real expense the Company are at on account of the same; therefore no benefit will probably arise to the Company from it on the sale of the said investment.

[F] 6.  This is the sum which will probably be realized in England, and is only equal to 1_s._ 6_d._ per rupee, on the eighty lacs subscribed.

[6] Vide Mr. Francis’s plan in Appendix, No. 14, to the Select Committee’s Sixth Report.

[7] The whole sum has not been actually raised; but the deficiency is not very considerable.

[8] Fourth Report, page 106.

[9] Par. 36.  Vide Fourth Report from Com. of Secrecy in 1773, Appendix, No. 45.

[10] Vide Sel.  Letter to Bengal, 17 May, 1766, Par. 36, in Fourth Report from Com. of Secrecy, in 1773, Appendix, No. 45.

[11] Ibid.  Par. 37.

[12] Vide Committee’s Fifth Report, page 21, and Appendix to that Report, No. 12.

[13] 1st and 5th April, 1779.

ELEVENTH REPORT

OF THE

SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

ON

THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA.

WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE APPENDIX.

November 18, 1783.

ELEVENTH REPORT