Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries from 1st November 1868 to 30th April 1869, BCCI_Report_1868_1869, English

Description : The report contains the proceedings of the Half-yearly General Meeting of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries held on Monday, 31st May 1869. It discusses the Address to His Excellency the Right Honorable the Earl of Mayo, KP, the budget for 1869-70, revision of the Customs tariff, revision of the Stamp Act, the River Trust, bridging the Hoogly, communication with China via Assam, proposed ammendment of Section 52 of the Customs Act, proposed levy of Customs Duty on ships's stores consumed in board while in port, telegraph station between Calcutta and Atcheepore, Great Basses rock light, proposed reform in the standards of weights and measure in British India, reduction of tariff for telegraph messages, overland postage, Indian inland postal service, cargo boat Manjees' strike and new shipping Ghat, licensing and registration of cargo boats, compulsory registration of partnerships and deeds of trust and gift, half-yearly returns of stocks of imports, cotton traffic and other returns, famine in the North-West, tributes to nations of Abraham Lincoln, portrait of Hon'ble J N Bullen, new members ofd the Chamber, funds of the Chamber, commercial returns for 1868, schedule of commission charges, tonnage schedule for the port of Calcutta, members of the Chamber, rules and regulations of the Chamber
Title : Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries from 1st November 1868 to 30th April 1869
Reference Number : BCCI_Report_1868_1869
Digital file name(s)(.pdf) : BCCI_Report_1868_1869.pdf
Digital file name(s) tiff : BCCI_Report_1868_1869_001 to BCCI_Report_1868_1869_129
Digital file name(s) jpeg : BCCI_Report_1868_1869_001 to BCCI_Report_1868_1869_129
Digital folder name : BCCI_Report_1868_1869
Ancillary Title : nil
Volume and issue number : 1868-1869 Report
Date(s) : 1st November 1868 to 30th April 1869
Volume and issue number : 1868-1869 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 James Rome, President
Publisher : Cones & Co.'s Press
Place of Publication : No 19, Loll Bazar
Subject : Half-yearly financial report of the BCC&I, Economics, Finance, Colonial history, Calcutta under the British
Physical Condition : pages are brittle
No of Leaves : 124 + binding + cover + spine
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] With cover : 14.2 x 23.3 x 1.7
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] Without cover : 14.1 x 22.6 x 1.1
Note on item : The report contains a few oversized pages.
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 11, 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.