General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: A. Constable and Company Subjects: Education / General Education / Higher Education / History Education / Secondary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S CIVIL SERVICE AND OF THEIR COLLEGE IN HERTFORDSHIRE Before commencing an account of the late East India College, it may be interesting to give a few particulars as to how the Company’s service in India was recruited previous to the establishment of that Institution. The Civil Servants of the East India Company were originally called Factors, 1 and, by an order of the 24th September 1599, it was laid down that
no Factor or other officer to be employed in the viage shall be admitted or appointed thereto but by a generall Assemblie of the Adventurors and then elected by the consent of the greater number of them assembled. Amongst the Lawcs or Standing Orders of the East India Company, dated 1621, the following relate to the Election