In witness whereof the parties abovementioned have hereunto set their respective hands and seals the day and year first above written.

Signed Sealed and Delivered by (Sd.) Prankrista Chatterjee.

Tinkari Chatterjee in the pre- (Sd.) Tinkari Chatterjee.

Witness to the signature of Sir (Sd.) Asutosh Mookerjee,

Two plots of land according to the plan submitted here with and which plan form a part hereof measuring about Fifty-two Bighas of land more or less including the surface and underground rights subject to the payment of rent and royalties to the superior landlords and the observance of other covenants thereof situate in Mouza Ikrah Revenue Survey No. 2309, Thana No. 38 Jamuria Sub-Registry Raneegunge Sub-Division Asansole in the District of Burdwan being plots Nos. 1 and 2 in the Settlement records of the Thana Jamuria in the District of Bardwan butted and bounded as follows:

Plot No. 1. Area about Fifty-one Bighas-Settlement Nos. 1102, 1103, 1104 and portions of 1105, 1106, 1111 and 1115 and No. 346 and portions of 725, 726, 727 and 728.

South by the pucca road leading from Ikrah to Jot Janaki.

East by the late Doyal Gope's dwelling house and Chandibad land.

North by Newal Kanali laud and khas Darga land.

West by the Shite tank,

Plot No. 2. Area about one Bigha -Settlement Portions of Nos. 1091, 1092, 1093 and 1094.

East by Murmamayi Charitable Dispensary.

North by the pucca road from Ikrah to Jote Janaki,

West and South by Babu Prankrishna Chatterjee's land on which the buildings, structures now standing and other buildings now in the course of

construction and repairs as go by the name of or are appurtenant to or reputed to belong to the Basanti Bejoy High English School as described in Second Schedule below.

Valued at Rs. 50,000.

Second Schedule' B.'

All the buildings structures, erections, and those buildings now in the course of construction which the Donors now agree to erect with all proper repairs and additions to the said buildings together with all wells, outhouses, erections, kitchens, godowns servants' quarters privies, urinals compound walls and such other structures as go by the name or are appurtenant to or reputed to belong to the said Basanti Bejoy High English School standing on the two plots of land measuring about fifty-two Bighas of land as described in the First Schedule above.

Valued at Rs. 30,000.

Third Schedule ' C.'

All that undivided one half share of the Donors in the Darpattani and Lakhraj Mukurari, Darmakarari chakran chowkidari interests in the Shibpur Revenue Survey No. 2573 Thana No. 18 and Duata Mouzas in Thana Jamuria Sub-Registry Raneegunge Sub-Division Asansole in the District of Burdwan comprising the settlement Nos. in Thana Jamuria in the District

of Burdwan subject to the payment of rent to the superior landlords and the observance of other covenants as mentioned in the Deed of Conveyance which was executed in favour of the Donors by Babu Damodar Chakravarti and others by a registered Deed in the Sub-Registry Office of Raneegunge in the District of Burdwan on the 26th day of the month of October in the year 1918. Be it hereby declared that the Donors hereby convey to the Donee their entire rights both special and underground acquired by and held under the said Conveyance dated the 26th day of October, 1918.

Presented for registration at 12-15 P.M. on the 23rd day of August, 1922, at the Calcutta Registry Office by Prankrista Chatterjee, son of Bejoy Govinda Chatterjee of 115A, Amherst Street, Calcutta by caste Brahmin, by profession landholder.

(Sd.) Prankrista Chatterjee

(Sd.) Ahmad Azahar, Sub-Registrar of Assurances,

Calcutta.

23-8-22.

Execution is admitted by the above Prankrista Chatterjee and by his brother Rishikesh Chatterjee for self and as agent for his brother Karaliprasad Chatterjee under a Govt. Power No. 6 for 1920 authenticated by the S. R. of Ranigange. Identified by Mr. Madhusudan Mallik, articled clerk to Mr. L. M. Mallik, Solicitor of 85-D, Wellesley Street, Calcutta.

Execution is admitted by Gopeswar Chatterjee, son of Beyoygovinda Chatterjee and by his nephews Durgadas Chatterjee and Tinkari Chatterjee sons of Nikunjabehary Chatterjee and Subodhchandra Chatterjee respectively Brahmin Landholders of 115A, Amherst Street, Calcutta, who are identified by Jogendranath Chakrabarti, Pleader, Police Court, Calcutta.

In accordance with the terms of the Conveyance Deed of the BasantiBejay School of Mines, Ikhra, the following Committees for the management of the University School of Mines at Ikhra were appointed for the year 1925-26:

1. The Hon'ble the Vice-Chancellor, President, Ex-officio.

2. Prof. P. Brühl, D.Sc., I.S.O., F.C.S., F.G.S., Representatives of
3. Jnanchandra Ghosh, Esq., M.A.
the Senate.

4. Prof. Praphullachandra Mitra, M.A., Ph.D.-Representative of the Faculty of Science.

5. T. H. Richardson, Esq., M.A., B.A.I., M.I.C.E., M.I.E. (Ind.), Representative of the Faculty of Engineering.

6. Hemchandra Dasgupta, Esq., M.A. University Teachers in Geology
7. Saratlal Biswas, Esq., M.Sc.
and Mining.

8.

The Director of Industries, Bengal, Ex-officio, nominated by the Minister-in-charge of Agriculture and Public Works.

9. The Director General of the Geological Survey of India, Ex-officio. 10. The Head of the Institution-Sasibhushan Bose, Esq., M.A., Ex-officio.

11. Manindralal Singha, Esq., B.A.-Representative of the Staff of the General Department of the Institution.

12. Representative of the Staff of the Mining Department of the Institution-vacant.

13. Basantidas Chatterjee, Esq. Representatives of the Donor's family. 14. Durgadas Chatterjee, Esq.

In conformity with the Deed of Conveyance, the Senate, on the recommendation of the Syndicate, constituted the Advisory Board of the School for 1925-26 as follows:

1. The Chief Inspectors of Mines, Dhanbad.

2.

Sir Nilratan Sircar, Kt., M.A., M.D., LL.D., D.C.L.

3. Mr. P. S. Keelan.

4. Mr. Prankrista Chatterjee.

5. Mr. Bagalacharan Kanjilal, M.B., Medical Officer attached to the School at Ikhra.

XI

Research Studentships, Scholarships,

Prizes and Medals.

1

PREMCHAND ROYCHAND RESEARCH

STUDENTSHIPS.

Premchand Roychand, Esq., of Bombay, in a letter to the Government of India, offered, to make a donation of two lakhs of rupees to the Calcutta University, and on the 9th February, 1866, paid over this amount to the Government of India, to be transferred to the University and held by it as a Body Corporate, under Section 2 of Act II of 1857. Mr. Premchand Roychand further expressed a hope, that the money should be devoted to some one large object or to a portion of some large object for which it might in itself be insufficient."

The Senate, at a meeting on the 21st July, 1866, accepted Mr. Premchand Roychand's munificent donation, and directed that it should be invested in 5 per cent. Government Securities.

The Senate, at its meeting, held on the 2nd May, 1908, approved the following rules for appropriating the proceeds of the donation::

1. Six Studentships of Rs. 1,400 a year, each to be called the "Premchand Roychand Research Scholarship," shall be maintained on the interest of the endowment.

2. Any graduate of the University of Calcutta, who has passed the Examination for the Degree of Master or Doctor in any Faculty, during twelve years from the time that he passed the Entrance or the Matriculation Examination, shall be eligible for only one of these Studentships. Explanation

Any person who passed the Entrance Examination in 1908 and subsequently passed the Examination for the Degree of Master or Doctor in any Faculty, may be a candidate for the Studentship in any year not later than 1920.

3. The Studentships shall be awarded for promotion of research. Each Studentship shall be tenable for three years, during which the student will be required to carry on some special investigation or work in the subject in which the studentship was awarded.

4. Two Studentships shall, ordinarily, be awarded every year, one in a Literary Subject, the other in a Scientific Subject.

5. The Literary Subjects be as follows:

English, Sanskrit, Pali, the Prakrits and Indian Vernaculars, Arabic, Comparative Philology with special reference to the Oriental languages, Indian Palæography and Epigraphy, Indian History, Philosophy, Economics.

The Scientific Subjects shall be as follows :

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Botany, Geology and Mineralogy, Zoology, including Proto-Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Experimental Psychology.

6. Candidates for the Studentship shall submit their applications to the Registrar not later than the 31st October in any year and shall at the same time pay a fee of Rs. 32. Each application shall state (a) the academical distinctions which the candidate has obtained; (b) the subject in which he has specialised; (c) any research or investigation which he has made in the