1873.] Government grant of House allowance. 81 



Rev. M. A. Sherring. 

 J. G. Delmerick, Esq. 



The Committee op Papers. 

 The Members of Council. 

 The President said that the letter he was about to read to the mem- 

 bers of the Society would explain itself. They were aware that a claim sub- 

 mitted to the Government of India by the Council for rent of the house they 

 occupied as a Museum, from the date at which Government had contracted 

 to relieve the Society of these collections, had been for a long time under 

 the consideration of Government. They would therefore hear the result with 

 great satisfaction at finding that Government had assented to the claim of 

 the Society in full. 



No. 68. 

 From J. Geoghegan, Esq., Under Secretary to the Government of India, 

 Department of Agriculture, Revenue and Commerce. 

 To the Honorary Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Calcutta, dated 1st March, 1873. 

 (Industry, Science and Art.) 



Sir, — With reference to your letter to the address of the Government 

 of India in the Home Department, No. 47, dated the 29th January, 1872, on 

 the subject of compensation for the loss of house accommodation consequent 

 on delay in completing the new Museum building at Calcutta, I am directed 

 to say that after full consideration of the circumstances of the case, His Ex- 

 cellency the Governor- General in Council is pleased to accede to the request 

 of the Committee of the Asiatic Society, and to grant the Society a special 

 allowance of Es. 400 per mensem from the date fixed by law for the re- 

 moval of the Museum collections, up to the date on which they may actually 

 be removed. 



I have the honor to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your most Obedient Servant, 



J. Geoghegan, 

 Under-Secretary to the Government of India. 

 Eead a letter from F. S. Growse, Esq., M. A., C. S., on the proportion of 

 the Muhammadan and Hindu population of the village of Dotana near 

 Mathura. 



' On the high road between Delhi and Mathura, and about 22 miles from 

 the latter city, is the village of Dotana, noticeable in this peculiarly Hindu 

 part of the country for having as many as 715 Muhammadans, out of a total 

 population of 1411. Scattered about in the fields by the road side are a 

 number of Muhammadan buildings, mosques, tombs and dargahs, which 



