2nd. Whoever hires a house and resides there with his wife and

children, pays one Rupee yearly.

3rd. Whoever marries within his caste pays something as Russoom (fees).

4th. In all quarrels, whoever is found, on inquiry, to be in the wrong, pays something.

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5th. Whenever a marriage is preparing, one hundred beetle-leaves and ten beetle-nuts are paid.

6th. If any person is called upon to pay a debt of two or four Rupees, and refuses it from wickedness, if he is complained against, I make him pay it.

7th. Whoever wishes to quit his own caste and marry in another, or should do it from wickedness, pays something.

8th. Whoever, quitting his own caste, eats in another, pays something.

9th. Should any Beoparies and cloth merchants, by God's blessing, come from Orissa, they pay for each shop five Rupees.

10th. All Goldsmiths, Sugar Merchants, Stone Masons, Grainsellers, and Washermen, pay something.

11th. All natives of Orissa who die, on information being given to the Paramanick, he ascertains the property and puts aside sufficient to bury him; should there be any heir he delivers the household property to him, should there be no heir he gives something for the ceremonies, and if any thing remains he takes it.

12th.-All Orissa bearers who die, should no heir be found in the set or the castes, whatever he leaves behind him is kept in deposit six months. Should any person come from his house or family, I give it to him, but should no person come within six months, I give it in charity.

13th.-Brahmins and conjurers who act in that capacity pay some

thing.

Published by order of the Board of Revenue,

J. H. HARINGTON,

Secretary.

THE 16TH SEPTEMBER 1790.

Extract from the Proceedings of the Governor General in Council, in the Public Department, on the 10th September 1790.

Resolved, that with a view to encourage the acquisition of the native languages, such of the Honourable Company's writers as are

so disposed, be allowed, during the period of their writership, the sum of Sicca Rs. 30 per month for a Master to teach them; but that the first bill for this allowance (which is to be drawn with their Office salary) be not paid until it shall have been signed by the Governor General, agreeably to the established practice.

Ordered, that it be notified to the Honourable Company's writers that the Governor General will not be inattentive to the progress which they make in acquiring the country languages, and that it is the intention of Government to withdraw the allowance for a Master from those who on an examination by such persons as the Governor General may think proper to appoint from time to time for this purpose, shall be found not to have made a reasonable proficiency therein.

The Board, adverting to the Regulations passed in the Secret Department of Inspection on the 27th of June 1785, and published in the Gazette of the 30th of the some month, whereby it was resolved that the Honourable Company's writers should be allowed to draw (independently of their salary) Sicca Rs. 100 per month, and that they should be accommodated with apartments in the Writers' Buildings until their personal allowances (including the above 100 Rupees) should exceed Rs. 400 per month;

Resolved that the abovementioned allowance of Rs. 100 per month be abolished, and that the title to apartments in the buildings shall cease to every writer as well as to every other Civil Servant of whatever rank, whose personal allowances shall exceed the sum of Sicca Rs. 300 per month. It is to be observed that the allowance of Sicca Rs. 30 per month for a Master to teach the country languages is not to be considered as a personal allowance.

Published by order of the Governor General in Council,

J. WHITE,

Sub-Secretary.

THE 16TH SEPTEMBER 1790.

Extract from the Proceedings of the Governor General in Council, in the Separate Department, on the 27th of August 1790.

It is directed that, from and after the 1st of October next, no Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon employed at any of the out-stations shall receive more than one salary from the Civil Department, and for this it is required that he shall perform the duties of all the Civil Departments, whether Revenue, Commercial, or Judicial.

The Governor General in Council having taken notice that the salaries of the Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons employed at the outStations within the Company's Provinces, including the Zemindary of Benares, are not all regulated upon the same scale, directs that from the 1st of October next their allowance be fixed as follows:

:

Where full Surgeons are allowed by the Regulations of the 24th of October 1788, and also to those full Surgeons who were permitted to remain at Civil Stations, Sicca Rs. 300 for salary and Sicca Rs. 100 for house rent.

To Assistant Surgeons, when employed in the Civil line, Sicca Rs. 200 for salary and Sicca Rs. 100 for house rent.

Ordered, that the above allowance be drawn, in all instances where it may be practicable, from the Collector, and charged in the Revenue Accounts, and that the salaries of Surgeons or Assistant Surgeons be not paid from, or introduced into the Accounts of the Commercial Department, except when they may be stationed at a distance from any Collectorship, as in the instance of Luckypore, Bauleah, &c.

Ordered, that the salaries of the Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons attached to the several Presidencies beyond the Provinces be continued as at present.

(A True Extract)

J. FOMBELLE,

Sub-Secretary.

THE 4TH NOVEMBER 1790.

Extract from the Proceedings of the Governor General in Council, in the Revenue Department, under date 8th October 1790.

Agreed and ordered, that all British-born subjects, Armenians, and Greeks, as well those now at Sylhet as those desirous to proceed there for the purposes of trade, who shall produce to the Collector of the district. a License or Certificate from the Secretary to the Government, showing that they have permission to reside in that country, shall receive a Purwannah from the Collector to the Thannadars of the places and Pergunnahs where and near to the place where lime-stones are drawn or other articles of merchandize, such as wax, ivory, and iron, or other manufactures of the country are procured, (excepting places north-west of the

Surmah River, for, to such places, no person, whether British-born subjects, Armenian, or Greek, shall, on any account, be allowed to resort,) directing that the party shall suffer no let or hindrance in carrying on his traffic whilst he conducts himself in an orderly manner and attends duly to the directions hereinafter mentioned concerning the trade of the Natives.

Agreed and ordered, that as Sylhet is a Frontier District, and the circumstances of it render the regulation expedient, no License or Certificate, authorizing any British-born subject or other person not amenable at present to the Dewanny Adawluts to trade in Sylhet, shall be granted until the parties for whom they may be wanted shall enter into a Penalty Bond or Obligation under such security as Government shall approve, (the form of which Bond or Obligation may be seen at the Secretary's Office,) rendering themselves amenable to the Dewany Adawlut of the District of Sylhet at the suit of the Natives to all intents and purposes, and in the same manner as the Natives are amenable to it, at the suit of British subjects, by the 38th Article of the Regulations now in force for the administration of justice in those Courts. The Bond or Obligation shall be recoverable in the Dewanny Adawlut of Sylhet.

Agreed and ordered, that the Trade of Sylhet, whether in chunam or other articles, be declared entirely free to all the Natives, or, in other words, to all persons generally known under that denomination under the following Regulations :

1st. That they shall not supply the Cossyahs or other Hill-people with Arms, Ammunition, or other Articles of Military store under a penalty to be fixed by the Collector.

2nd. That such prohibited articles shall not pass the Chowkeys, where all boats will be searched, and contraband goods, if found, seized. No boat shall be detained longer than is absolutely necessary for this purpose.

3rd.—That no Burkundauzes, Sepoys, or other armed people belonging to individuals, shall be allowed on any pretence to pass to Laour and places north-west of the Surmah, nor to any place in the Company's country under the Collector of Sylhet, unless it shall appear to the Collector that the same are indispensably necessary for the personal defence or the safety of the property of the merchant or person who employs them.

Published by order of the Governor General in Council,

G. H. BARLOW,

Secretary.

THE 9TH DECEMBER 1790.

Address to Earl Cornwallis.

On Thursday, the 2nd instant, a Public Meeting was held at the Old Court House, in consequence of the following card, which had been circulated the day before, by the gentlemen whose names appear there undersigned :

"Calcutta, November 30th, 1790.

"The gentlemen of the Settlement are requested to meet at the Old Court House, at ten o'clock in the morning of Thursday, the 2nd of next month, for the purpose of considering of an address to the Governor General previous to His Lordship's departure to the Coast:

By eleven o'clock, a greater concourse of persons than we ever remember to have seen assembled in Calcutta upon any public business, being met together, there appeared a general impatience to proceed to the business of the day, and upon a call for the chair, Mr. Davies, the Advocate General, was desired by the Meeting to take the same.

The Company being seated, the Chairman rose, and having thanked the Meeting for the honor they had done him in calling him to the chair, which, however, he said would on that occasion have been much better filled by many of the gentlemen he then had in his eye, he observed that, by being placed there, he felt himself called upon, on behalf of himself and of the other gentlemen with whose names he had the honor to be joined in the card which invited the present Meeting, to explain the reasons and motives that had induced them to desire the attendance of the gentlemen of the Settlement, for the purpose expressed in their invitation.

That it had occurred to many of them, separately, that an address to Lord Cornwallis previous to his departure for the Coast, would be