Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries 1865, BCCI_Report_1865A, English

Description : The report contains the proceedings of the General Meeting held on 13th December 1865. It discusses the assassination of the president of the USA, mooring accomodations for vessels loading and discharging cargo, abolition and refund of additional export duties, duty on machinery, the condition of the Strand Bank, publication of weather reports on the Telegraph Gazette, meteorological observations, detention of mails at Galle, increased steam postage from Calcutta to China, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, the Australian colonies, etc, measurement of jute during the rainy season, screw moorings, mildew damage on cotton piece goods, and grain crops in Bengal. It proposes that Saturday be declared a half-holiday.
Title : Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries 1865
Reference Number : BCCI_Report_1865A
Digital file name(s)(.pdf) : BCCI_Report_1865A.pdf
Digital file name(s) tiff : BCCI_Report_1865A_001 to BCCI_Report_1865A_075
Digital file name(s) jpeg : BCCI_Report_1865A_001 to BCCI_Report_1865A_075
Digital folder name : BCCI_Report_1865A
Ancillary Title : nil
Volume and issue number : 1865 report
Date(s) : 1865
Extent (Pagination) : 1 - 30, Appendices: I - xcvii
Volume and issue number : 1865 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 John N. Bullen, President
Publisher : Cones & Co.'s Press
Place of Publication : No. 23 Loll Bazar, Calcutta
Subject : Half-yearly financial report of the BCC&I, Economics, Finance, Colonial history, Calcutta under the British
Physical Condition : pages have yellowed but the overall condition is good
No of Leaves : 70 + 4 coloured binding pages + covers + spine
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] With cover : 13.9 x 23.5 x 1
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] Without cover : 13.9 x 23 x 0.8
Note on item : There is a pencil mark in BCCI_Report_1865A_004.
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 : Soumashree
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.