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Rh account of the said school was opened in the Bank of Bengal in the names of Rai Harachandra Ghosh Bahadur and Pundit Iswarachandra Vidyasagar, in November 1861.

"9. In 1864, the abovenamed Managers of the school changed the name of the school into the Hindu Metropolitan Institution, with a view to have the Institution affiliated to the Calcutta University.

"10. And in that year an application was made to the Syndicate of the Calcutta University for the affiliation of the said Institution up to the B. A. standard, * * *. The application, however, was refused.

"11. In 1865, Babu Khelat Chandra Ghosh, the owner of the house in which the school was located, and with whom a contract had been entered into by Raja Pratapchandra Sinha and Pundit Iswarachandra Vidyasagar to pay enhanced rent on condition that certain additions and alterations were made in the school premises, instituted in the original side of the High Court, Suit No. 882 of 1865, for rent against the said two Managers of the school, who in their written statement filed in that suit say that they among others were Managers of the school * * *"

For ready reference, extracts from the written statement referred to above, filed on the 1st September 1865, are given below:—