Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries for the year 1937, Vol. 2., BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II, English

Description : The general section includes : Indian Accountancy Board, Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, Representation of Associated Chambers of Commerce. The Political and Constitutional section includes : Commerce and Industry Constituencies of the Bengal Legislative Council, Bengal Constituency of the Indian Legislative Assembly, Postage and Telegraph Rates between India and Burma. The Law and Legislation section includes : Income Tax Enquiry report, relief from double taxation of Income, Indian Income tax Act : related issues, Insurance Bill, 1937; Indian Motor Vehicles Act, 1914; Trade Disputes, Presidency Towns Insolvency Act. The Law and Legislation section includes : Commercial Documents Evidence Bill, Indian Merchandise Marks Act, 1889; Indian Registration Act, 1908; Indian Tea Control Bill, Bengal Relief to the Poor and unemployed Bill, Bengal Partnership Rules, 1937; Bengal Partnership bill, Bengal Local Self Government bill, Bengal Jute bill, Agricultural Produce Act, Code of Civil Procedure Bill, Arbitration Act, Bengal Tenancy bill, Bengal sweepstakes bill, Bengal legislature, fraudulent stamping of cotton, Bengal Boiler's Rule, Indian Electricity Rules, Indian Explosives Rules, Import Duty on Safety lamps. The Customs section includes : Indo-Japan Trade Agreement, Uruguay : Weights and Measures, Customs Notifications, Customs Duty onTanning Extracts. The Marine Section includes : Bengal Waterways Act, Hours of Work Indian Seamen, Seamen Welfare in Ports, Unifrm System of Maritime Bouyage, Seamen Welfare in Ports, Extension of the basic period of Lascar agreement, draft convention concerning annual holidays, welfare schemes for Indian Seamen, enquiry by the Imperial Shipping Committee, freight rates on exports, seamen's union under the trade union act. The Posts and Telegraphs section includes : Empire Air Mail Service, carriage of insuffiently stamped inland letters, Imperial Airways revised time table, International telegraph conference at Cairo, shortcomings of Indian Posts and Telegraphs services, registration of lettres at Clacutta GPO, phonogram service, Trunk Telephone System, Mail Train timings, Business with Nepal, proposed standardisation of business reply cards. The Railways section includes : report of the Indian Railway enquiry committee, revision of railway, railway wagon shortage, shortage of wagons, Upcoutry surveys, Local Advisory Committee, Classification of Titanum Ore.The Finance section deals with : Stamp Duty on Indian Currency bill, Income tax enquiry report. The Industrial section include : Payment of Wages Act, Bengal Payment of Debts, proposed extension of the factories act, Bengal State Aid to industries Act, Workmen's Compensation Act, Workmen's compensation rule, Imperial Preference : knitted goods. The Municiapl Section includes : Road transfer Conference, Calcutta Traffic Advisory Committee, Bengal board of Communications, Culverts over road side drains. The Miscellaneous section includes : Portfolio of communication, Central Transport Advisory Committee, Bengal Bord of Communications, Trade Statistics, discontinuance of Shipping reports, Imperial education, trade with Italy, Anti gambling league, Indian Central Jute Committee, Extension of Telephone Service in India, Middle Class unemployment, Begars amd Street Vendors in Clive Street Area, registration of Japan of the word Darjeeling as the trade mark of tea, The Coronation of His Impreial Majesty King George VI, Scotland's Empire Exhibition, 1938
Title : Report of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industries for the year 1937, Vol. 2.
Reference Number : BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II
Digital file name(s)(.pdf) : BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II.pdf
Digital file name(s) tiff : BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II_001 to BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II_504
Digital file name(s) jpeg : BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II_001 to BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II_504
Digital folder name : BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II
Ancillary Title : nil
Volume and issue number : 1937, Vol. 2
Date(s) : 1937
Extent (Pagination) : pp I to pp Vi (Contents), 2 pages without pagination, pp 1 to pp 981.
Volume and issue number : 1937, Vol. 2
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
Publisher : Criterion Printing Works
Place of Publication : 8, Jackson Lane, Calcutta
Subject : Yearly financial report of the BCC&I, Economics, Finance, Colonial history, Calcutta under the British
Physical Condition : Yellowing pages, foxing marks present, some text may be lost due to hard binding.
No of Leaves : 496 + 4 binding pages + cover + spine
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] With cover : 23 x 16 x 2.9
Dimensions (LxBxW)[in centimeters] Without cover : 22.3 x 15.4 x 2
Note on item : Handwritten note is present in BCCI_Report_1937_Vol_II_003.
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 : Sayan
Date(s) of the digital copy : 14-Nov-14
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.