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pany whether the Factory House at Dacca shall be finished 
as Mr. Mandeville pene 28th December: Mr. Cooke has 
laid out some mone it.’ By August 1737 it would appear 
that the removal Re ads completed, for the writer and writes 
of the ‘“‘ workmen at Tezgaun”’ as if it were a place different 
from the place where he was writing. 
I may note here as an item of interest that the first canton- 
tii in Dacca were situated in Mauzah Baigunbari, which 
ns Tezgaon. The Chandmari Aa range) is still point - 
ed sins but all that remains of it is a large- mound, evidently 
the old butts, in and near which miaatiiaes of lead used to be 
found. The remains of an old road with a broken bridge, con- 
necting the cantonments direct with the Mymensingh road still 
exist. The present Ramna was constructed in 1825 by Mr. 
Dawes (the han Magistrate) as an open space between the old 
and the new cantonments. 
VouvumeE II. 
29th November 1736. Ata ‘ata eee present pes 
Russell! Esq., Supervisor and . Messers John Freame,* 
William Price, 3 Thomas Feake * ne Bernard Bouket.* 
Mr. Russell’s arriving yesterday morning as Super- 
visor and Chief for the time being with orders from the Hon’ble 
of Caleutta to inspect into the conduct of Mr. Thomas 
Chas the occasion of said order being from a complaint trans- 
mitted to the Govt. and Council by Messers Freame, Feake an 
Bouket setting forth that the said Mr. Cooke’ had, they believed 
embezzled the Honble Company’s cash as well as any 
other unwarrantable things. Mr. Russell now called us fa alec 
to enquire into these matters and told us that he was affraid our 
suspicions in relation to the cash would prove true, for that he 
had yesterday morning, at the same time that he took npere 
| He succeeded to a Baronetcy later. He was great ss cehaniscas of Oliver 
‘Cromwell. He became chief of Cossimbazar and died in Calcutta on 26th 
nore: 1743. (See Wilson’s Old Fort William 
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Wilson’s Early aisle, Vol. Ill). He became chief of Jugdea (in emg 
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