Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries from 1st May to 31st October 1866, BCCI_Report_1866A, English


Description : Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries held on Monday, the 31st December 1866. It discusses the River Trust, report of the Currency Commission, telegraphic and postal communication between India and England, Bank of Bengal charter, East Indian railway, the famine, reversion of the tariff and transfer to the free list of articles of petty value and yielding little or no revenue, duty on old copper, deposit of government paper as security for Customs Duties, adhesive stamps, time allowed for application for refund of Export Duty, bills of Lading, reduction of usance of Bills drawn in India and China on Europe, railway communication between Lahore and Peshawar, detention of overland mails, proposed introduction of the system of sorting letters on board Mail Steamers, reporting of grounding of vessels, postal and telegraph service at Diamond Harbour and Mud Point, returns of silver coinage, selected members of the Chamber, new members, members retired, funds of the Chamber, revised rules of the Chamber, cotton cultivation in the North-Western Provinces, schedule of commission charges, tonnage schedule for the Port of Calcutta, members of the Chamber
Title : Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries from 1st May to 31st October 1866
Reference Number : BCCI_Report_1866A
Digital file name(s)(.pdf) : BCCI_Report_1866A.pdf
Digital file name(s) tiff : BCCI_Report_1866A_001 to BCCI_Report_1866A_079
Digital file name(s) jpeg : BCCI_Report_1866A_001 to BCCI_Report_1866A_079
Digital folder name : BCCI_Report_1866A
Ancillary Title : nil
Volume and issue number : 1866 Report
Date(s) : 1st May to 31st October 1866
Extent (Pagination) : 1-107, Appendix: 1-19
Volume and issue number : 1866 Report
Medium of copies : Photographed digital images [24 bit, 400 dpi, uncompressed, colour, Tiff]
Medium of original material : Paper, printed in black and white
Creator(s) - Author(s) : BCCI Committee headed by F Schiller, President
Publisher : Cones & Co.'s Press
Place of Publication : No.23, Loll Bazaar
Subject : Half-yearly financial report of the BCC&I, Economics, Finance, Colonial history, Calcutta under the British
Physical Condition : overall condition is good, broken spine, improper cover alignment
No of Leaves : 128 + 2 binding pages + covers + spine
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] With cover : 14.4 x 24 x 1.3
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] Without cover : 14 x 23.4 x 0.9
Note on item : Handwritten note is present in BCCI_Report_1866A_073.
Languages of material : English
Scripts of material : Roman
Contributor(s) - Owners of the original material : The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries
Creator(s) of digital copy : Arnab + Aki + Sujata + Amritesh
Catalogued by : Chandrima
Date(s) of the digital copy : February 10, 2014
Place where copy was made : SCTR, JU, Kolkata
Present storage location : BCC&I Kolkata
Software : Canon EOS Utility , Adobe Lightroom 5
Hardware : Canon EOS 60D
Keywords : Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industries, trade records, colonial trade records, imperial trade records, British trade records in Kolkata, British Raj in Kolkata,