1876.] OldJiam Memorial. 217 



The President announced, on the part of the Council, that with 

 reference to what passed at the last meeting regarding the erection of shops 

 on a waste portion of the Society's comjjound, the Council had resolved 

 that in anj case the shops should not be built on the site proposed, at 

 the corner of Park Street and Chowringhee, though they reserved the 

 power of building them at the other corner in Park Street if the interests 

 of the Society should require it. 



Colonel Thuillieb said — With reference to what had just been an- 

 nounced by the President, as to the intention of the Council in regard to 

 the projjosed erection of shops on a portion of the Society's ground in the 

 south-east corner of the compound in Park Street, he desired to bring to the 

 notice of the j^resent meeting his very emphatic protest against the dis- 

 posal of any of the ground belonging to the premises of the Society for 

 the erection of shops with a street frontage, as a financial speculation. 



He considered the question of shoj)s in such a desirable situation, and 

 in close contact with the Society's house, altogether prohibitory on many 

 accounts, entailing, as such erections undoubtedly would, an unending source 

 of inconvenience and difficulty in harboui'ing natives of inferior description 

 about the premises, and in entirely spoiling the fine frontage towards the 

 Maidan and Park Street, which, when properly opened out by the contem- 

 plated improvements, would necessarily afford to the house they were so 

 fortunately situated in, the superiority of aspect and prominence which it 

 required and deserved. 



The erection of shops as a speculation on the part of the Society, he 

 deemed utterly foreign to the position, character, and objects of the Society ; 

 and their erection in such close vicinity to the house, in such a confined 

 compound, would obstruct light and ventilation, and be a terrible eyesore 

 and annoyance when built. 



Understanding that the sense of the previous meeting was entirely in 

 accordance with his views on this very important question, he entreated the 

 Council to weigh it well before acceding to it their support — he had there- 

 fore entered his protest on the minutes of Proceedings of the last Council 

 meeting, against the measure, and he earnestly trusted nothing of the sort 

 would be actually undertaken to the detriment of the real interests of the 

 Society. 



The President announced that subscriptions to the amount of Rs. 910 

 had been received for the proposed Meuioi'ial Bust of Dr. Oldham, a 

 further sum of about Ks. 600 was still required, and it was hoped that 

 subscriptions to this amount Avould be received. 



The Presto RXT laid before the meeting a copy of the revised Rules 

 and stated that a few alterations had been made iu the wording of some 



