XII. and XIII. regulation VI. 1805, the articles therein enumerated, if intended for private use, and not for sale, be liable to the payment of town duties on importation into any of the cities and towns, specified in section IV. of that regulation; and also whether articles composing the private property of individuals passing through the ceded and conquered provin ces be subject to the operation of regulation XI. 1804, the following notice, with the sanction of the governor-general in council, is published for general information:-That all articles, whether intended for sale or for domestic consumption, if rendered liable to the assessment of government customs, or of town duties, by regulations XI. 1804, and VI. 1805, are declared to be subject to all the rules contained in those regulations on being imported within the jurisdiction of any of the customhouses, established in the ceded and conquered provinces; that the several collectors of government customs in those provinces, on a written application being made to them for that purpose, are authorized to pass at their discretion, the baggage and necessaries of individuals, free of duty, provided the collector shall be satisfied that the packages and parcels, for which application may be made, contain such articles only as are bona fide of the description of private baggage; but that excepting in cases of this nature, no person or persons, by the special orders of the governor-general in council, are exempted from the payment of the duties to which they may be liable under regulations X. 1804, and VI. 1805. Published by order of the board of trade, J. THORNHILL, Secretary.

Fort William, Aug. 5, 1806.

Fort William, Public Department,
Aug. 13, 1806.

The public are hereby informed, that the residents at Lucknow and Delhi, the collectors of the land

revenue and other officers in the ceded and conquered provinces, and in the province of Benares, who were authorized by the advertisement of the 12th February last, to negotiate bills on the presidency at par, have been directed, from the 31st instant, to grant bills on the application of individuals at the exchange of 103 Lucknow or Benares sicca rupees, for 100 Calcutta sicca rupees, the bills to be drawn payable ten days after sight. The collectors and other officers, who are authorized to negotiate bills on the presidency, in the provinces of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, will continue to draw on the terms of the advertisement of the 12th February. By order of the honorable the governor-general

in council.

THOMAS BROWN,

Chief Sec. to the Govt.

Fort William, Accountant-General's Office, Aug. 13, 1806. Notice is hereby given, that the treasury notes of this government, which may be outstanding from No. 3,381, to No. 3,510 of 1805-6, inclusive, will be discharged on application at the general treasury, on Thursday, the 21st instant, on which day the interest thereon will

cease.

H. ST. G. Tucker,
Accountant-General.

Notice is hereby given, that on Thursday, the 18th of September next, and the following days, until the whole is disposed of, will be put up to sale by public auction, at the Salt-office, maunds 12,00,000 of the honourable company's salt,

the

sale :

the particulars whereof are below auction, for ready money; any prostated. The salt will be put up to fit arising thereupon shall belong to sale at specific prices. The lots will government, and any deficiency be fixed at one thousand maunds falling thereupon, shall be made each, (at an even scale) of eighty- good by the first purchasers, with two sicca weight to the seer. One all expences attending the re-sale. rupee to be paid down on each lot Printed certificates, under the sigto bind the purchase. The salt to nature of the secretary, specifying be transported from the places of the purchaser's name, the number delivery, (which are fully detailed of the lot, and the particulars of the in an advertisement published at salt purchased, will be delivered to this office) at the risk of the pur- the purchasers on their having comchasers.

pleted the payment of their depoParticulars of the twelve lacks of sits, both in cash and paper. But maunds of salt to be sold by public the certificates above-mentioned auction, with the conditions of the must be returned previously to the

orders and rowannahs for the deliDivisions. Quantity for very of the salt being issued. On

Sale.

a payment for salt being made, an Hidgelee

1,93,000

equivalent proportion of the paper Do. Kurkutch

7,000 Tumlook

2,30,000

deposit will be returned to the pur24 Pergunnabs

2,00,000 chasers, so that twenty per cent. in Bullooah

1,75,000 paper will always be retained on the Chittagong

68,000 balance of the purchases, until the SULKEA.

whole shall be paid. On a payment Coast salt

3,16,557 in ready money, or treasury bills Seized salt

3,196 Coot Gunge ditto

being made, an order will be im

1,761 Narrain Gunge ditto , ... 486

mediately issued by the secretary to MAUNDS 12,00,000

the board of trade, for the delivery

of a quantity of salt equivalent to A deposit in company's paper of it, and the merchant will be fur. twenty per cent. on the amount of nished with the order for delivery, salt purchased. Payment in cash, and such rowannals as he may reor treasury bills, ten per cent. on quire for the salt, on his paying the amount of the salt purchased. Pe- rowannah fees as usual. " No order riod for completing the payments, will be issued for a less quantity than three months after the conclusion two hundred and fifty maunds of of the sale.

salt. It being stipulated that the The deposit in company's paper, salt shall be paid for within three (this paper to be received at par for months from the conclusion of the its principal only) and the propor- sale ; in case any salt shalt not be so tion of payment in cash, or treasury paid for, a proportion of the paybills, as above specified, to be both ment in cash, as above stipulated, made within ten days after the con- to the extent of ten per cent. on the clusion of the sale. In failure of purchases unpaid for, will be liable either the stipulated deposit in pa- to forfeiture; and moreover, the per, or the payment in cash, or salt will be forthwith advertised for treasury bills, being made by the a ready money sale; all losses and period above specified, the salt to expences attending such sale, to be be immediately re-sold by public borne by the first purchasers, and

any

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missioners in the purchase of the account, be admitted in the work. bonds and notes of this government, All stones are to be cut to the on tenders being made to them in quick, and to have no part of them the usual manner.

spongy, or soft ; any stone defecPublished by order of the go- tive or that has any Haw within vernor general in council,

eight inches of the surface, or that Thos. BROWN, is of an inferior quality will be Chief Sec. to the Govt. rejected, and all expence of re

moval to be at the cost and charge NOVEMBER

of the contractor. Notice is hereby given, that 4th. The stones are all to be sealed proposals of contract will filled and correctly bedded, perbe received at the Bank of Hin- fectly level ; the beds on the same dostan, on or before the 1st Janu- layer, to be of similar heights, ary, 1807, for the construction and no layer to be less than ten of a mausoleum over the remains inches in thickness; it will be deof the late most noble marquis sirable that the lower courses Cornwallis, at Gazepore, agreea- should be more, from one foot to bly to a plan, elevation, and section, fourteen inches. All the stones now lodged at the Bank for in- to be fastened together by iron spection, and where any further cramps, to have at least four to each information will be given that may stone. The cramps to weigh (col. be required.

Garstin to be requested to give the 1st. The foundation of the necessary information, which should building to be of the best masonry remain at the Bank) - oz. and to of bricks, made for this express be run in, and covered with lead, purpose, and none but those of a and to be so placed as not to be good quality and exceedingly well within six inches of the outer faces burnt will be admitted ; the work of the stones ; all the faces to be to be built in bond, in a workman- rough chiselled, or finished on the like manner; the mortar to be interior sides in the way that stones made as is hereafter particularized, are usually cut, before they receive

2d. The floor of the building to the last polish ; and on the outer be raised, agreeably to the plan, face to be cut and polished in the and constructed on arched Aues best manner, the joints to be careand brick on edge, over which to fully chamfered and sifted ; any be laid a pavement of China mar- work where this caution is not ble, in slabs of two feet square, used, is to be taken down, that properly cleaned and bedded in fault rectified, and replaced at the strong cement. The steps up to contractor's expence. In forming the building to be faced with stone the cornices large stones, at least six and finished with an astragal noos- feet in length by two, and six wide, ing, each stone forming the steps are to be used; and at all the angles to be at least six feet in length. square stones at least six feet square.

3d. The rest of the building to All ornaments to be cut out of the be erected agreeably to the plans, solid; and the hardest and best stone sections, and elevations, and to to be used for that purpose. For be built with free stone, to be the doine, every stone is to be cut drawn from the quarries of Chunar to a bevel, and made of a length to or Mirzapore ; none but stone of form one solid mass, so thai each the very first quality will, on any

layer layer shall reach from the outside and surveyed. The contractor to be to the interior, both faces of which responsible for its remaining in per. must be carefully cut, fitted, and fect order for the term of one year, polished. The mortar to be used from the day of survey. The throughout the building to be made committee will reserve to themof the best stone chunam, burnt on selves the right of accepting, or the spot. The stones to be drawn otherwise, such proposals as may from the quarries at Dugeah Dehrie, be offered, as they may deem most

, near Lettif Ghur, and burnt at advantageous for the public, withGazepore. All mortar to be made out assigning any reasons for so in the following manner :---pro- doing. The work to be completed portions of chunam one-third, in two years from signing the fine sified soorkey one-third, and contract, and to be constructed of one-third sand, well washed, under the superintendance of such from the rivers Curramanassa, or person as the committee may deem the Jurgoo, to be so clean, that proper ; and in the event of any the water must run from it

per- difference of opinion, between the fectly clear. The sand being wet- contractor and superintending offite! with as much lime-water as it cer, either with respect to the will retain, the lime is to be put quality of materials or the mode of under it to slack, and when the carrying on the building, the same fermentation has ceased, it is to be to be determined by an umpire, well beaten, and afterwards soor- whose decision shall he final. key is to be added in proportion of one-third, to be made of fresh

Fort William, Accountant Gen's. well burnt bricks, to be sifted

Office, Nov. 19, 1806. through a fire.sieve; and as a very

Notice is hereby given, that the small quantity of mortar will be used, the expence will not be treasury notes of this government, great, but its composition must be

which may be outstanding from carefully attended to, and no joint

No. 5,281 to No. 5,466 of 1805-6 to be above three-tenths of an inch inclusive, will be discharged on in thickness. The composition to application at the general treasury, be thoroughly incorporated by

on Thursday, the 20th November, repeated beating. The proposals

on which day the interest thereon

will cease. are required to specify the terms on

H. St. G. TUCKER, which the brick work by the one

Accountant-gen. hundred cubic feet, and the stone work per cubic foot, will be con- Fort William, Public Department, structed. Two good and sufficient

Nov. 24, 1806. securities will be required for the Notice is hereby given, that the due performance of the contract, orders of government of the 12th and a penalty of fifty per cent. will April, 1804, which were publishbe exacted in case of failure. The ed in the Calcutta gazette, of the advances will be made as follows, 19th April, 1804, whereby Ed

, one-third on signing the contract, ward Bunny, formerly a writer in one-third on the second story being the office of the collector of goraised to the height of the pedi- vernment customs at. Moorshedaments; the last payment after the bad, was declared incapable of whole shall bave been completed holding any office hereafter in the

service