Bande Mataram

Notes and Memos

Notes and Memos - I

I. Srijut Aurobindo Ghose is appointed Managing Director with full powers subject to the following provisions:—

1) The Budget to be fixed by the Directors, which he shall not exceed.

2) All appointments, dismissals, increments etc. to be in the power of the Directors only, but power of provisional appointments, degradations etc. is given to the Managing Director subject to sanction by the Directors at their next meeting.

3) When the Secretary and other officials or members of the Committee of Management are not in agreement, the orders of the Managing Director will be final.

II. The Managing Director shall be assisted by a Committee of Management consisting of four persons including the Secretary,

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the work to be distributed among them according to the following Departments.

1) Cash and Disbursements and general assistance to the Managing Director, especially in the matter of seeing that the books are regularly written up. NCM [Nirod Chandra Mullik]

2) Finance—i.e. Advertisements, Cash Sales, Subscriptions (V.P.P.) and generally whatever relates to the income of the paper. HPG [Hemendra Prasad Ghose]

3) Editorial—i.e. the arrangements for work and the improvement of the paper. The responsibility for the matter does not go with this charge, as that can only be undertaken by a Managing Editor. SSC [Shyam Sunder Chakravarti]

4) General Correspondence and Press, with Dispatch, Stores, etc. Secretary

Srijut Benoy Banerji shall exercise general supervision with the Secretary over the General Department, and be given whatever assistance he may require for any duties he may find it impossible to discharge in person.

The Managing Director shall have power to alter the distribution of work whenever he finds it working defectively.

III. The Budget is fixed at Rs. 4500 a month, according to the scheme drawn up by Srijut Prakash Chandra Dutt subject to the modifications subsequently made. It shall not on any account be exceeded until the paper becomes profitable, when the Managing Director will draw up a fresh scheme for the improvement of the paper. The reductions under the scheme shall be effected by the 24th February.

IV. Payments to the staff are to be made for the present out of the Rs. 500 received for shares with whatever comes in by way of daily realizations. No other money from shares is to be utilized henceforth for current expenditure but all strictly credited to Capital Account. The Rs. 500 abovementioned will be repaid to this account by instalments from the daily realizations.

V. Disbursements must be made according to the fixed rules. There shall be separate accounts for Capital Account, Paper,

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Establishment and general expenses, Daily Expenditure. The daily realizations shall be divided under these heads and only enough for the fourth item kept in the Office, the rest being paid into the bank. Whatever old bills have to be paid subsequent to the 24th February must be paid out of capital account except such as properly belong to the current month. When unexpected liabilities have to be met, an attempt should be made to raise shares to meet them.

VI. Srijut Girija Sundar Chukrabarti shall be appointed travelling Agent for the collection of shares, subscriptions etc. and asked to complete his Bombay tour as soon as possible so as to proceed to East Bengal for shares. Other agents shall be appointed on the commission system in Madras, Bombay and C. P. and Berar.

Notes and Memos - II

Budget

1) Money to be immediately paid for the scheme to be possible

Schroder—Rs. 1000 at least.

Dickinson—Rs. 1000.

Type—Rs. 1000.

Establishment—Rs. 2000 at least.

2) Arrears of work to be brought up and new system begun—yet no increase of establishment possible.

3) System of four accounts to be introduced rigidly as soon as 1 is solved.

4) List of old liabilities.

1) Cash sale going down. How to remedy this? Causes of decrease.

2) Advertisements difficult to procure unless paper is boomed and cash sale & circulation increase.

3) Subscriptions.

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1) Editorial matter insufficient. More hands required for articles etc. but fresh expenditure impossible.

2) News almost nil, more expenditure on telegrams, etc. necessary, but impossible. Reporters to be engaged but this means fresh expenditure.

3) Correspondent arrangements.

4) Working of Editorial Department—especially editing of Reports and Telegrams. Present staff seems unable to do it.

1) Correspondence.

2) Despatch horribly bad, how to improve it?

3) Stores—daily check.

4) Stocktaking.

5) Press. Another Press absolutely necessary but no money.

Notes and Memos - III

Elliot

Rs. 50 paid on account of pay, not case.

Rs. 20 paid by C. R. Das to E. through our office. He says we have nothing to do with that, but must pay it separately.

Notes and Memos - IV

Selections—A. Ghose

Correspondence—Editor

Reports & Telegrams etc.—S. Chuckerbutty

Notes and Memos - V

Englishman

Bengalee

Amritabazar

Empire (Mallik's)

1) Two copies of the above three papers absolutely necessary.

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Statesman & Daily News one copy for the present, whenever necessary another may be bought.

2) Bengalee & Amritabazar to be specially compared with our paper so as (1) to make sure that we are not fallen unnecessarily behindhand, (2) to see that full use is made of items we cannot secure.

3) Mofussil papers—to see that they are made fuller use of. See whether they all come.

Notes and Memos - VI

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Notes and Memos - VII

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