Bengal National Chamber of Commerce. Report of the Committee for the Year 1931 with Appendices Statement of Accounts and Balance Sheet

List of Associations Affiliated to the Chamber xi A Brief History of the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce 1 Proceedings of the Annual General Meeting held on the 5th February 1932 6--30 Secretary's Report 7 Presidential Speech Adoption of the Report of the Committee and the Statement of 'Receipts and Disbursements for the year 1931 25 Election of Office-bearers and Members of the Executive Comm [...] The interest which the Indian merchants took in the affairs of the Chamber will be evident from the fact that as many as 35 members had joined the Chamber from the very beginning and that the number rose to 54 at the end of the first year. [...] The principle of Local Self-Government was first recognised by the Government in the matter of the administration of the Calcutta Port Trust in 1888 when they introduced in the Bengal Council a Bill for amending the Calcutta Port Trust Act and providing for the election of four representatives from the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and one from the Calcutta Trades' Association. [...] In 1888 the Marquiss of Lansdowne the then Viceroy of India in reply to the address of welcome presented by the Chamber to His Lordship upon his assumption of the office of Viceroy acclaimed the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce as the accredited exponents of the views of the Native mercantile classes of Bengal." Twenty-two years later Lord Hardinge in reply to the address of welcome presente [...] To recount only a few of such problems I should refer to the various issues involved in the immnent change in the constitution of India the budgetary and financial problems of the year and last but not least the momentous developments in the currency system of the country which proved so disturbing to the commercial community for the uncertainties involved and so dangerously harmful to the ec