The Calcutta Gazeteer. Thursday March 12 1931. Part IV

production of jute and advising the Government on all matters relating to the production and the orgamIation of the maketing of jute and to the improvement of the economic value of Jute a Central Jute Board shall be constituted as soon as possible after the passing of this Act. [...] (2) The Board shall consist of the following members :— (i) the Minister in charge of the Department of Agriculture ex officio ; (ii) the Director of Agriculture ex officio ; (iii) the Registrar of Co-operative Societies ex officio ; (iv) the members of the Legislative Council representing the Indian Jute Mills Association the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce the Bengal Marwari Association [...] of 4. (1) The Minister in charge of the Department of Agrculture shall be the Chairman of the Board and the chief excutive authority of the Board. [...] of 7. On or before the 30th of December in every year the Director of Agriculture shall prepare and circulate to the members of the Board a full statement showing as far as practicable (a) the total area of the land in the Presidency cultivated with jute in that year ; (b) the total outturn of jute in that year ; (c) the total of the surplus stocks of jute held over from the previous year ; (d) [...] The Local Government may with the advice of the Board from time to time make rules consistent with the provisions of this Act and in particular without prejudice to the generality of the above provision may make rules— (1) prescribing the procedure at meetings of the Board : (2) prescribing the form of the register of jute lands to be maintained by Union Boards : (3) prescribing the mode of th