Excerpt from Interesting Extracts From the Minutes of Evidence: Taken Before the Committee of the Whole House, to Whom It Was Referred to Consider of the Affairs of the East India Company, in the Sessions 1813 They have their plate there, their mahogany furniture and other articles made there, and by far the greatest part of them use the leather manufactured there for shoes, and boots, and hamess buff leather for belts is 'made there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.