io LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SESSION, 1909 



Bill introduced at the first Legislative Council 

 Meeting which I have attended. 



The events which influenced the Government in 

 bringing forward the measure are the following: 



On December 6th, 1907, an attempt was made 

 to assassinate the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal 

 by means of a bomb exploded under his train near 

 Midnapore. Two other abortive attempts of a 

 similar nature on Sir Andrew Fraser's life had 

 already been made on the railway-line near Chan- 

 dernagore. On December 23rd, 1907, Mr. Allen, 

 the District Magistrate of Dacca, was shot with a 

 revolver at Goalundo. On March 4th, 1908, Mr. 

 Hickenbotham of the Church Missionary Society 

 was shot near his house at Kushtia. On April nth 

 an attempt was made to assassinate the Mayor of 

 Chandernagore by a bomb. On April 3Oth a 

 bomb intended for Mr. Kingsford, who had been 

 Presidency Magistrate at Calcutta, was thrown 

 into a carriage at Muzaffarpur, and killed Mr. and 

 Miss Kennedy. On May 2nd the Manicktolla 

 bomb conspiracy was brought to light. On 

 June 2nd a serious dacoity was committed near 

 Nawabganj, in Dacca District, by a large band 

 armed with guns and revolvers, in which two 

 persons were killed. On June 2ist a bomb was 

 thrown into a railway-carriage at Kankanara and 

 injured an English gentleman, and there have been 

 several similar attempts in the same neighbour- 

 hood. On August 3 ist an approver in the Manick- 

 tolla case, which is under trial at Alipur, was mur- 

 dered. On September I7th a serious dacoity was 

 committed at Serampore. On October 20th and 

 3oth similar dacoities were committed in Malda 



