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Emblem of the Government of India, i.e., three lions,
the chakra and the Hindi words. A copy of the
emblem is enclosed.

APPENDIX V
NOTE BY HONOURABLE THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITU-
s ENT ASSEMBLY, DATED THE 7TH NOVEMBER, 1949.
As regards the illumination the following points
must be cleared by correspondence with Shri Nandalal
Bose:
(a) We must give him the size of the paper and leave
it to him to decide what the best plan would be and
what space should be left between the design and the
calligraphy. From the plan which is attached to the
letter of Shri Nandalal Bose dated 31st October, it
seems that the size of the paper should be 18" by 14",
that the design should cover 2£" in width and that he
wants to know what the measurement of the space
should be between the design and the writing. I
think it better to leave it to him to decide,what would
be best from the artistic point of view. We should
only suggest that there should be sufficient margin
left on the left side for binding.
(b) We should ask him also how the work will be
executed and under whose supervision if he himself is
unable to supervise the whole of it. Possibly he might
give us someone who could supervise the whole work
under his guidance.
(c) We should get an idea from him of the cost per
page so that we may find out what -the total cost would
be.
(d) We may find out what he exactly means by 'the
papers being designed before the writing is started'. I
do not think it means completing the illumination. It
simply means leaving the necessary space according to
plan for illumination which may be done even after the
.manuscript has been written out.