Copy of a letter from Richard Bond, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood, Secretary of State for India] in which he thanks him for his appreciation of the difficulties of the Lancashire cotton trade; passes on the view of the Chamber deploring the statement that the new Indian constitution will not include any provision to limit the right of India to impose taxes on goods imported from Britain; notes that the Chamber considers this "an abandonment of the vital interests of our own country" and intends to bring the Lancashire case before the Joint Select Committee; and asks the government to consider securing a trade agreement with India. He encloses a summary of the proposed evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Carbon typescript.