Council Proceedings. Official Report. Bengal Legislative Council Seventeenth Session 1925. 17th to 21st and 23rd to 26th March 1925

J. M. DAS GUPTA: Will the Hon'ble the Member in charge of the Political Department be pleased to lay on the table a list showing-- (i) the names of the political prisoners of Bengal who are now imprisoned in the various jails of India and Burma; (ii) the social standing and the average income of each before his arrest; (iii) the moaetary help the Government are allowing for the maintenance of thei [...] the Member in charge of the Department of Revenue aware that in 1871 the landholders of Bengal presented a petition to Parliament protesting against the proposed cess on land in Bengal on the ground that it would be a direct breach of the Permanent Settlement ? (h) Is the Hon'ble the Member aware that the Government of India first started the proposition of taxing the permanently-settled estates [...] Babu SATYENDRA CHANDRA MITRA: (a) Will the Hon'ble the Member in charge of the Political Department be pleased to state the nature of the papers seized by the police at the house of Mr. [...] Babu BEJOY KRISHNA BOSE: Will the Hon'ble the Member in charge of the Department o Finance be pleased to state the total of the increments for superior services provided for in the next year's budget in all the departments owing to the acceptance of the Report of the Lee Commission? [...] (b) If the answer to (a) is in the affirmative will the Hon'ble the Member be pleased to state whether they have any instructions from the Government to behave in this way ? (c) If the answer to (b) is in the negative are the Government considering the desirability of-setting matters right ? (d) Is the-Hon'ble the Member aware that the notice of the Secretary to the Council was drawn to this fac