Outstanding debts were also agreed and the company permitted to export 250 tons of <answer>salt</answer>petre. Again in 1673, Banks successfully negotiated another contract for 700 tons of <answer>salt</answer>petre at £37,000 between the king and the company. So urgent was the need to supply the armed forces in the United Kingdom, America and elsewhere that the authorities sometimes turned a blind eye on the untaxed sales. One governor of the company was even reported as saying in 1864 that he would rather have the <answer>salt</answer>petre made than the tax on <answer>salt</answer>.
One of the governor of the company said that he would rather have saltpetre then____ in its raw form?
salt