As a Sub-Deputy Collector Mr. Goswami won the estimation of his administrative superiors. Col. Gurdon; who had an extensive experience of the administration of Assam, refers in glowing terms to Mr. Goswami's career as & Sub-Deputy Collector,—
“I rememeber how well he supervised the work of his subordinates at that time and how he met any difficulty with that determination and sangfroid which always distinguished him, for the work of a Sub-Deputy Collector Tahshildar | provided no bed of roses in those days, and revenue and settlement duties were full of difficulty more specially at a time when the whole settlement system was reorganised by Sir Bampfylde Fuller. It was about this time that the first resettlement operations on scientific principles were undertaken in the Assam Valley, when Hem Goswami was easily marked out by the authorities as just the man for settlement work under the new conditions; and I remember how highly the settlement officer, Mr. Barnes, spoke of Hem Goswami's keenness and driving power.”
On May 2nd, 1905, Mr. Goswami was promoted to the Assam Executive Service and appointed Extra Assistant Commissioner or Deputy Magistrate at Gauhati. He was then transferred to Tezpur, where with his old friend Rai Sahib Padmanath Gohain-Barua he evolved many schemes for the improvement of Assamese literature. Mr. Gohain- Barua founded the Usha, a monthly Assamese periodical, which established a reputation for chaste and lucid diction, no less for the classical character of the subjects dealt with in its pages. Mr. Goswami contributed a series of articles on several ancient Assamese manuscripts, but the most momentous contribution from Mr, Goswami was his account of the battle of Saraighat, in which the Mogul hordes under Raja Ram Singha were completely defeated by the Ahom forces under the General Lacit Barphukan. The unparalleled heroism of Lacit Phukan revealed for the first time through
