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Rh In the supplementary report submitted to the Council of Education in May, 1844, it was stated that the senior students of the College had been allowed to attend a course of Lectures on Law, delivered by the Advocate-General once a week, between the months of October 1843 and February 1844; and that an examination of the students of the institution who attended the Law Lectures had been held, the answers to the questions being examined by Sir, who adjudged the prize of a gold medal to Iswer Chunder Mittre. It was also mentioned that the prizes for proficiency in, given by the Hon’ble the President of the Council of Education, were contended for at this institution on the 11th March, and that the gold medal was awarded to Anundo Kissen Bose, and the silver medal to.

The prize of a gold medal awarded to Iswer Chunder Mittre upon the successful result of his examination in Law, and the prizes of gold and silver medals awarded to Anundo Kissen Bose and Rajnarayen Bose, for proficiency in Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments, alluded to in the preceding paragraph, were presented by the Right Hon’ble the Governor-General to the respective candidates, on the 9th October 1844.

The Advocate-General delivered a second course of Law Lectures at this institution between the months of May and August last. An examination of the students who attended that course has been held by him. The papers containing the questions and answers were submitted to the Hon’ble C. H. Cameron, who again assigned the first place in order of merit to Iswer Chunder Mittre.

But as a medal had been recently awarded to him, the Advocate-General proposed that a present of Books should be substituted on the present occasion, which has been approved of by Government. The Advocate-General further suggested that a present of books should be made to Jogace Chunder Ghose, whose performance was nearly equal to that of Iswer Chunder Mittre.

The scholarship examinations were held on the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th and 7th October, under the immediate superintendence of the following gentlemen:—

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