Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries from 1st May to 31st October 1877, BCCI_Report_1877, English
BCCI_Report_1877.pdfDescription : The report contains the proceedings of the Half-yearly General Meeting of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries held on Monday, 18th February 1878. It discusses financial operations of government, Hooghly bridge and toll, Coolie strike, port commissioners jetty charges and appropriation of surplus revenue, insufficiency of jetty accommodation and cargo boats, cargo boats, pilot service, consolidated Customs bill, customs, duty on salt in private and goevernment golaks, mofussil insolvency law, supply bills on government treasuries in Assam, Jute Warehouse Act, port commissioners bye-laws, port of Gibraltar: tobacco trade with Calcutta, official publication of weather reports, East Indian Railway, stocks and consumption of food grains in Madras famine districts, importation and storage of inflammable oils, improvement of Indian wheat, registration of British trade marks, local purchases of government stores, resolution by government of Bengal on annual report of marine department, lighting the approaches to the Hooghly, reported abolition of sorting overland letters, presidency courts of small causes, port of Rouen, 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 to 31st October 1877
Reference Number : BCCI_Report_1877
Digital file name(s)(.pdf) : BCCI_Report_1877.pdf
Digital file name(s) tiff : BCCI_Report_1877_001 to BCCI_Report_1877_156
Digital file name(s) jpeg : BCCI_Report_1877_001 to BCCI_Report_1877_156
Digital folder name : BCCI_Report_1877
Ancillary Title : nil
Volume and issue number : 1877 Report
Date(s) : 1st May to 31st October 1877
Extent (Pagination) : 1-13, 1-258, Appendix: i-xvi
Volume and issue number : 1877 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 Duncan Mackinnon, President
Publisher : Cones & Co.'s Press
Place of Publication : No 307, Loll Bazar
Subject : Half-yearly financial report of the BCC&I, Economics, Finance, Colonial history, Calcutta under the British
Physical Condition : Overall condition is bad, brittle pages, foxing, chemical reaction
No of Leaves : 152 + binding + cover + spine
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] With cover : 23.8 x 15.2 x 2
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] Without cover : 23.3. x 15.2 x 1.4
Note on item : Handwritten note is present in BCCI_Report_1877_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 : Aki + Amritesh + Arnab + Sujata + Soumashree + Chandrima
Catalogued by : Chandrima
Date(s) of the digital copy : March 18, 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.