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      "chunk_data": "152. THE SERAMPORE COLLEGE ACT:\nBENGAL ACT NO. IV OF 1918\nSerampore College, founded by the Serampore missionaries in 1819, was granted a Royal Charter by the King of Denmark in 1827. The validity of this charter was recognised by the British Government when they took over Serampore in 1845. The Act of 1918 recognized this and, further, constituted a Senate, which was to become the affiliating and degree recommending agency for Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican Theological Colleges throughout India. The Act was published in the Calcutta Gazette of the 1st May 1918. Cited in George Howells, The Story of Serampore and its College, Appendix I, pp. 102-105.",
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