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INDIAN COTTON OESS BILL DISCUSSION IN THE ASSEMBLY.

DELFI February šlak. In the Legialettre Assembly Mr. Enllah mored for the third reading of the Bill provide for the creation of a fund for the improvement and development of growing marketing and manufacture of cotton in India. The Joint Commities to which the Bill was referred discussed at length, the question whether the es should be levied on cotton exported by sen as well as on cotton consumed in the milis a British India and decided by a minority that cess should be levied in hotheses. As regards the amount of the coes the Committee decided that i

PROPOSED CALENDAR.

A THIRTEEN-MONTH YEAR DISCUSSED BY MERCHANTS

A resolution, endorsing the Congressional to improve the Gregorian calendar and bill providing for an international conference establish fixed international calendar of thirteen months of four weeks each will be Commerce of the State of New York. The discussed at a meeting of

the Chamber of bill provides that the

extra day to make 388 be designated as January 0.

The International Congress of Chambers, calendar reform since 1908, the Committed of Commerce has voted resolutions urging of Foreign Commerce and the Revenue Laws, of which William E. Feck is chair- man, reported. Mr. Peck's report said;

is the purpose of the in this coun try

calendar reform which will of cotton but for the first three years months of twenty-eight days each,

divide the year into exactly thirteen OBTAINABLE. from the commencement of the Act it

that should be levied as double the rate. each, the extra

month of four wocks of seven days to make 365 to be day to be an

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that effect. He said that the burden of the cess on the export would ultimately inconveniences resulting from its irrg- fall on the producer. The major portion gularities as to the number of days in of the produce was consumed in the mills the month. We never know on what day The levy of the cess, therefore, should holidays will fall, only by

of the week New Year's Day or other THE KEY TO GROW RICH, te porfined to the cotton consumed in the

consulting the

THE CHINA INDUSTRIES mills and should not be extended to the By making uniformity in the number exported cotton. The House of Commons of days in a month statistics can be

DEVELOPMENT BANKING and resolved to compel the spinners of made truly comparative, resulting is

CORPORATION. LIMITED, England to pay a particular cess to the better facilities for efficiency and economy DUDEKLI BURKEY, gives to all its Depositors cotton growing association in order to in all business affairs.” improve the growth of cotton there. If

■ Handsome Bate of Interest, cotton growing in India was also to he improved the millowners should similarly

AUTHORISED CAPITAL $2.000,000,00 be taxed.

Captain Sassoon opposed the amend

mont.

The Hon. Mr. Sarma said that the cotton industry required one crore for improvement and research work and that. was why Government had imposed a cess of four annas but the Joint Committee reduced it to two annas. Any further weakening of the hands of the Central Committee on Cotton-by reducing the lo come would lead to many difficulties in the achievement of their object,

Sir Montagu Webb also opposed the

amendment. N

The amendment of Mr. Iyer was put and lost.

Further discussion postponed.

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