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tui'e frames, new mats, punkahs, book-cases, furniture, &c., but the Coimcil 

 believe tliat this may be met in great part from mcome mthout trenching 

 further on the vested capital of the Society. 



It will thus be seen that the total expense of all the proposed repairs 

 and alterations of the buildings and the further cost of furniture &c., is 

 not likely to exceed Rs. 40,000. The amount of the Society's funded pro- 

 perty at the present moment is Es. 1,58,000, besides about Es. 6,000 in 

 floating account, so that should all the proposed improvements be adopted, 

 there will remain to the Society at least Es. 1,20,000 invested in 5|- °/q 

 Government Secui-ities and bringing in a regular income of nearly Es. 550 

 a month, quite independently of subscriptions, besides 4 or 5,000 rupees 

 available for the general purposes of the Society, Should the shops be 

 built the income mil be increased to at least Es. 750, and if they are not 

 built, to a little over Es. 600. 



The Council would take this opportunity of exj^ressing their indebted- 

 ness to Mr. E. E. Bayne for the vakiable professional assistance he has 

 rendered to the Society, as a member of the Committee of Eepairs, and 

 particularly for the trouble he has taken in preparing detailed plans and 

 estimates for the imjjrovements proposed by the Committee, though the 

 Council regret that they have been unable to carry out Mr. Bayne' s beauti- 

 ful designs, on account of the extra expense they would have involved. 



The Chaiemak announced that as the stock of copies of the Eules of 

 the Society was nearly exhausted, the Council proposed to pubHsh a revised 

 edition and had, with the assistance of a Committee, drawn up a circular 

 showing the changes and additions it was thought desirable to make, 

 with a statement of the reasons for the alterations proposed. The circular 

 would be sent to the whole body of members, as provided under Eule 32 

 (c), and the question would come up for decision at the November meeting. 



The following were the changes proposed — * 



Eule 1. Proposed Alteration. 



Name and Object. 



The Society shall he called, as heretofore, the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal and its objects shall be those described in the following language 

 of the Founder, Sir William Jones : — " The bounds of its investigations will 

 be the geographical limits of Asia, and within these limits enquiries will 

 be extended to whatever is performed by man, or produced by nature." 



* Additions and changes are shown in italics. 



