Report of Proceedings. ix 



I. — That the Society be called, The Asiatic Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland* 



II. — That the designation of the Members of the Society be 

 M.A.S.\ Member of the Asiatic Society. 



Ill- — That the Meeting do empower the Council, as soon as 

 it shall have been elected, to frame Regulations, by 

 which, when sanctioned by the Society, at its General 

 Meetings, the Society is in future to be governed.]. 



IV. — That the Council be authorized to take such steps, or 

 make such arrangements, as they may deem advisable, 

 to provide a suitable place for the Society's meetings. § 



V. — That the Council be authorized to take such steps as may 

 be requisite, to obtain a Charter of Incorporation, as 

 early as they may find it expedient and practicable. || 



VI. — That the next General Meeting be held on Saturday, 

 the 19th of April, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 



The Chairman congratulated the Meeting on the promising 

 aspect which the Society bore, stating, that the number of 

 Members already entered on its list, exceeded Three Hundred. 



• His Majesty having been pleased, subsequently, to grant to the Society the title of 

 Royal, its present denomination is, The Royal Asiatic Society rf Great Britain and Ireland. This 

 distinction was announced to the Society, by its President, the Right Honourable Charles W. 

 Williams Wynn, at the General Meeting, June 7, 1823, as appears from the Minutes. 



t Tlie designation now is M.R.A.S. Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



X The Regulations have, accordingly, been framed. They were sanctioned by the Society, 

 at the General Meeting, April 19, 1823. They were afterwards printed, and distributed among 

 the Members. 



J The Council has succeeded in obtaining the lease of a convenient house, situated in 

 Grafton Street, Bond Street, which was taken possession of, in the name of the Society, on (he 

 15th of January, 1824; and the Society met there, for the first time, on the 17th of that month. 



II The Charter, by which the Society now is incorporated, is dated August 11, 1824. 



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