Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries from 1st May 1878 to 31st October 1878, BCCI_Report_1878, English


Description : The report contains the proceedings of the Half-yearly General Meeting of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries held on Tuesday, 18th February 1879. It discusses overland mail service, license tax, customs: import duties, cutoms: revision of tariff, customs: penal clauses of the Act, customs: duty on bonded salt, cargo boats, jetty charges, hospital dues, bill to provide for detention of unseaworthy vessels, survey certificates of Indian passenger steamers, compulsory pilotage in the Hooghly, compulsory pilotage in the port of Chandbally, East Indian Railway-delivery of goods at Howrah, East Indian Railway- block at Cawnpore, Eastern Bengal Railway- carriage of jute, telegraph services and telegraph ciphers, weather reports and registered rainfall, value-payable overland parcels, postal service with Serajgunge, Calcutta canals, country coal as ballast for emigrant vessels, port trust for Rangoon, registration of the Treaty of Tientsin, York-Antwerp rules of general average, importation of India rubber into Arrakan, new members, funds of the Chamber, revised tonnage for the port of Calcutta, schedule of commission charges, members of the Chamber, rules and regulations of the Chamber.
Title : Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries from 1st May 1878 to 31st October 1878
Reference Number : BCCI_Report_1878
Digital file name(s)(.pdf) : BCCI_Report_1878.pdf
Digital file name(s) tiff : BCCI_Report_1878_001 to BCCI_Report_1878_121
Digital file name(s) jpeg : BCCI_Report_1878_001 to BCCI_Report_1878_121
Digital folder name : BCCI_Report_1878
Ancillary Title : nil
Volume and issue number : 1878 Report
Date(s) : 1st May 1878 to 31st October 1878
Extent (Pagination) : 1-33, 1-178, Appendix: i-xvi
Volume and issue number : 1878 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 George Yule, President
Publisher : Thomas S Smith, City Press
Place of Publication : 12, Bentinck Street
Subject : Half-yearly financial report of the BCC&I, Economics, Finance, Colonial history, Calcutta under the British
Physical Condition : Overall condition is good
No of Leaves : 117 + binding + cover + spine
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] With cover : 24.7 x 15.4 x 1.7
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] Without cover : 23.8 x 14.5 x 1.1
Note on item : Print layout of the item is different from others in the series.
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 : Aki + Amritesh + Arnab + Sujata + Soumashree + Chandrima
Catalogued by : Chandrima
Date(s) of the digital copy : 19 March 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.