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London, England, 1826-07-24 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE, July 19, 1826.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED
COMPA.7 of MEECH-4A TS of ENGLAND trading to
the EAST INDIES do hereby glue Notice,
That A SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COM.
PANY will be held at their House, in Lealenhall-street, on
Wilutistmay, the 48th Instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon,
at the desire of Nine Proprietors, agreeably to the following Let-
ter, received on the 10th instant, viz.

" To Josue DART, Esq. Sccretary to the Honourable the Court
of Directors of the East India Company.
" Sza—We, the undersigned Proprietor of India Stock, request
" that you will lay before the Honourable the Court of Directors
" of the East India Company this Requisition, to call a General
" Meeting of the Honourable the Court of Proprietors, that the
" following Motions may be submitted to their immediate con-
" sideration :

" First That !adverting to the Act of Parliament recently
" passed, which contains the following Clauses : '' That at any time
4' within three years from the passing of this Act, it shall and may
" be lawful for the Court of Directors of the said United Com-
• pany, to nominate and appoint, and to send to the PRES!-
, DENCIES of FORT WILLIAM, FORT ST. GEORGE,
"or BOMBAY, in the capacity of a Writer, any Person who
'"shall produce such testimonials of his character and conduct, and
"pass such an examination as by Rules and Regulations to be
." framed and established, shall be required. That the said Court
$ of Directors shall, and they are hereby required with all conve-
▪ nient speed, to frame and establish proper Rules and Regulations
" respecting the due and necessary qualifications of Writers; and
" that it shall and may be lawful to alter and vary such Rules and
" Regulations from time to time as circumstances may appear to
" require.' This Court, therefore, requests the Court of Directors
" now to submit their intended Rules and Regulations, that the
" same may be deliberately discussed by the General Court of
" Proprietors; also, in order to obviate every attempt to establish
" any unfair monopoly in Oriental E4tication, while the College
" Suspension Act is in force, like the one lately made by a regula-
" tion of the Court of Directors, which, .-hough published in their
" Court Calendar, or Red Book, has since, on aware reflection,
" beta rescinded.

" Second—That considering the manifold advantage of retort-
" cuing the feelings and interests of the various Public Depart-
" meats and °facial Couununities at the different Presidencies in
" British India with each other, in every branch of the sery ice
" this Court recommend that the Executive Government there be
" instructed to abolish immediately the odious practice of paying
" the Civil Servants in SICCA RUPEES, and the Army in a less
" valuable currency, called SONAT RUPEES, to prevent all
" discontent from the continuance of this unreasonable distinction
" between the King's or Company's Civil, Military, and Naval
" Functionaries in future, by the whole receiving their respective
allor ances in the same specie, or equitable Rates of the Local
" Coins where such Payments are made.

" We have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your mist obedient servants,
" WILLIAM MASON,
" WILLIAM THORNTON,
" R. SLADE,
" JOHN WILES,
" JOHN BORTHWICK GILCHRIST,
" JAMES MOUAT,
" LEICESTER STANHOPE,
I,ondon, " J. ADDINELL,
" June 30, 1826." " JAMES PATERSON."
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.