Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries for the half-year ended 30th April 1880, BCCI_Report_1879_1880, 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 1880. It discusses the budget for 1880-81, import duties on cotton goods, registration fees in place of duties, trades and professions tax bill, factory labor bill, trade-marks bill, telegraph service, differential rates of postage on overland foreign correspondence, pilotage charges, proposed amalgamation of the duties of port officer with those of the port commissioners, railway extension in Bengal, transport and storage of inflammable oils, extension of trade in Indian tea to the Australian colonies, statistics of Indian tea, declaration of actual weight, standard samples of Indian wheat, the doorgah poojah holidays, departure of overland mail steamers from Bombay, government trade circular, stamps, revision of customs tariff valuations, the committee, 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 for the half-year ended 30th April 1880
Reference Number : BCCI_Report_1879_1880
Digital file name(s)(.pdf) : BCCI_Report_1879_1880.pdf
Digital file name(s) tiff : BCCI_Report_1879_1880_001 to BCCI_Report_1879_1880_132
Digital file name(s) jpeg : BCCI_Report_1879_1880_001 to BCCI_Report_1879_1880_132
Digital folder name : BCCI_Report_1879_1880
Ancillary Title : nil
Volume and issue number : 1879-1880 report
Date(s) : For the half-year ended 30th April 1880
Extent (Pagination) : 1-23, 1-200, Appendix: i-xx
Volume and issue number : 1879-1880 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 Morison, Vice-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 : pest infested, foxing, chemical reaction, pages are extremely brittle, slightly distorted images because of binding
No of Leaves : 128 + binding + cover + spine
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] With cover : 24.1 x 14.8 x 2.2
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] Without cover : 24 x 14.2 x 1.3
Note on item : Adhesive tape marks as well as tapes are visible in BCCI_Report_1879_1880_010, BCCI_Report_1879_1880_049, BCCI_Report_1879_1880_050, BCCI_Report_1879_1880_051, BCCI_Report_1879_1880_100 and BCCI_Report_1879_1880_101.
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 19, 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.