The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-04 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEE. 27, 1824.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED
COMPANY of MERCHANTS orENGLAND, trading
to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice,
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COM PANT will be
held, by adjournment, at their House in Leadc.hall-street, on
FRIDAY, the sth March next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Fore-
noon, for the purpose of continuing the consideration of the follow-
ing proposition, tv_ _

"That application be made to Parliament, in the present Sea.
sion, for the Repeal of the tlith Clause of the Act of the 53d
Gem 111. cap. 15a, by which the Court of Directors is prohibited
from sending to India, in the capacity of a Writer, any Person who
shall not have Resided during Four Terms at the Ilasleybury Col-
lege." JOSEPH DART, Saaetary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Fell. 27, DV&
THE COURT of DIRECTORS a the UNITED
COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, trading
to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice,
That whereto, under arrangements promulgated by the Governor-
General, in Council, of Fort %V illiam, on the 11th and 2fith of
February, 11323, a certain portion of all the Promissory Notes of
that Government, bearing date the 31st of March, 11122, was dis-
charged on the Ist of May, 1023, and in the ease of Proprietors re- '
',Went in Europe their Agents were entitled to receive Treasury
Notes for the amount discharged, payable eighteen months after
date, and bearing interest for that period, at the rate of five per
cent. per annum, directions have been tinned to the said Govern-
ment to grant Rills upon the Court for the amount of such Trea-
sury Notes, in all cases in which the Proprietors shall be bona fide
resident in Europe, payable at the rate of two shillings the nun
rupee, and eighteen months after date, with a reservation to the
Court of the option of postponing payment for au, two. or three
Tenn after the expiration of the said testa &eighteen rowers. upon
inswing interest at the sate of four pee ten per annum for the
period of postponement.
This Notice is given in order that the Proprietors resident in
Europe may communicate directions thereon to their Agents in
India, in time to allow of those directions being received there pre-
viously to the Ist of October, 1924, at which time the Treasury
Notes became payable. JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1824.

INCORPORATED SOCIETY MIA Tint MANAGE-
MENT AND DISTRIBUTION ORE THE LITERARY

FUND.
A GENERAL MEETING of dio Members of this
1 Society will be held at the Society's Chambers, No. 4,
Lincoln% Inn Fields, on WEDNESDAY the 111th of March, for
the Election of thrir Officers, and for the transaction of other busi-
neas.—The Chair will be taken precisely at Two o'clock.
CDARLES STAIMCINS,
JA ES A NDERSOK LL.D. Registrars.
J. B. NICHOLS, F.B.A.

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