Official Report Bengal Legislative Council Debates Monday 14th February 1938

SHRISH CAHNDRA CHAKRAVERTI: May I have your leave to move that the question of the Council Library and the appoinment of the Librarian and the staff to the same be referred to the Privileges Committee of this House to report within a week? [...] PRESIDENT: The motion before the House is that the quetion of the Council Library and the appointment of a Librarian and the staff be referred to the Privileges Committee of the House to report within a week. [...] To augment the resources of the zemindars the tenants and the edcated middle-classes within the limits of the federation and bring new revenue to the coffers of the State by levy on improvements effected or on increased incomes of parties concerned and thereby increase the potentiality of the State for nation-building and rural uplifting works is designed to make the country healthy and pros [...] I submitted the other day what the High Court held in the year 1865 that the right of the proprietorship of the landlord under the Permanent Settlement was subject to the existing right of the various classes of people inhabiting the land. [...] Therefore it should be the duty of the mover to request the respective party whips to select the names from amongst their members for the Select Committee so that there may not be any disagreement about the personnel of the Committee on the floor of the House.