Proceedings. _ [Mareh, 1905.] 
fair clearness on a paper which is not inconveniently thick or 
smooth. 
3. The Committee after seeing representatives of Messrs. 
Thacker, Spink & Co., and the Baptist Mission Press, recommend 
the following estimate submitted by the latter :— 
Paper A. Rs. 3-8 per page for 8vo. 
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4, The Committee also recommend that the new paper and, 
as far as possible, the types should be employed for works here- 
after to be published in the Bibliotheca Indica. 
The question of improving the vernacular types used in his 
publication must be postponed, nothing better being available in 
India, but the Committee has reason to believe that improvements 
will shortly be effected. 
- 5. The present Report is submitted to this Meeting . of 
Council in order that if it.1s adopted the new arrangements may 
apply to the publications of 1905. The preparation of a design for the 
new printed cover is still under consideration, but can be easily 
completed before any new publications are issued. 
6. The Committee were further of opinion that select Barer: 
tisements should appear in “ Journal and Proceedings,” as in the 
J.R.A.S., and that the arrangements for this purpose should be 
entrusted to Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., whose representative 
informed the Committee that they were ready to undertake the 
work and that the income to be derived from this source would 
probably recoup the Society for a very large proportion of the 
cost of the “ Journal and Proceedings.” It is suggested that these 
advertisements besides being a source of income would be of con- 
siderable practical use to members. 
7. To facilitate the system of publishing papers, and to avoid 
the delay often caused by reference to Council, in accordance with 
the standing regulations, the Committee recommend that all 
arrangements with regard to the publication of papers be made 
by a “Standing Publication Committee, composed of the Hditors 
of the Journal and Proceedings, and that this Committee be given 
the powers now resting with Council, except when the publication 
of a paper involves expenditure beyond the sanctioned grant. In 
such a case, the sanction of Council would be necessary before the 
printing of a paper. This change of regulation can be introduced, 
on resolution of the Council, by a single change in the wording 
of the standing regulations printed in pp. 25 and 26 of the Rules, &e. 
of the Society. 
>» 8. The Committee recommend the restoration of the old 
practice of publishing in the Proceedings from their minutes, the 
list of members at each Meeting of Council as well as extracts 
when they appear to be of general interest. Such extracts might 
Be aa read at the ‘General se ion the eee of 
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