1876.] Accommodation of the Society. ■ 75 



it would now be absolutely essential to put the entire building into a state 

 of thorough repair, and to effect such alterations and improvements, as 

 were obviously necessary for furtherance of the objects of the Society and 

 the increased comfort and advantage of its Members. 



To this end it would be necessary to expend some small portion of the 

 new capital, so as to render the Society's Premises really efficient, conxEort- 

 able and appropriate. A Sub-Committee had been appointed by the 

 Council to suggest and superintend the carrying out of the required changes, 

 and it was hoped that whatever might be determined on, would be carried 

 out before the nest cold season. 



The Secretary then read the Deed of Release, as below, and the motion 

 of the Chairman that the Meeting should accept and confirm the action of 

 the Council was carried unanimously. 



Deed of Eelease. 



Dated this 30th day of March, 1876. 



The CoTHsrciL of the Asiatic Society oe Bej^gaI/. 



To the Secretary of State for Isdia in Coiotcil. 



W[}i% Jlntumture, made the thirtieth day of March, one thousand eight 

 hundred and seventy six, Between Thomas Oldham, LL. D., President ; 

 Babtj Rajendralala Mitra LL. D., The Honorable Edward Clive 

 Bayley, C. S. L, C. S., and Colonel Henry Edward Landor Thuillier, 

 R. A., C. S. I., (Vice-Presidents) ; Colonel James Eardley Gastrell, 



B. S. C, Louis Schwendler, Esquire, Henry Blochmann, Esquire, M. A., 

 Captain James Waterhouse, B. S. C, James Wood-Mason, Esquire, 

 Timothy Richards Lewis, Esquire, M. B., James O'Kinealy, Esquire, 



C. S., Babit Prannath Pandit, Walter Kerr Waller, Esquii-e, M.D., 

 Charles Henry Tawney, Esquire, M.A., and Edward Gay, Esquire, 

 M. A., Members of the Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal of the 

 one part, and the Secretary of State for India in Council of the other 

 part, Whereas the said Asiatic Society of Bengal is a Voluntary Society the 

 affairs financial and otherwise of which are regulated, administered and 

 directed by a Council selected annually by the said Society. And Whereas 

 upon the second day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy- 

 six, the said Tliomas Oldham, LL. D. Avas duly elected President of the 

 said Society and Bdhu Hdj endraldla JMitra, LL. D., The Ilonorahle Edward 

 Clive Bayley, C. S., C S. L, and Colonel Henry Edward Landor TlmiUier, 

 M. A., C. S. J., Vice-Presidents, and Colonel James Eardley Gastrell, B. S. C, 

 Louis Schvendler, Esquire, Henry Blochmann, Esquire, M. A., Cajptain 

 James Waterhouse, B. iS. C, James Wood-Mason, Esquire, Timothy Bichards 

 Lewis, Esquire, M. B., James O'Kinealy, Esquire, C. S., Bdhu Prannath 



