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[1.] 



[Copy.] '* Sciestce and Aet Depaetment, 



" South KENSiNaxoK (S.W.) 

 "2ndMaij, 1876. 

 " SiE, — "With reference to tlio arrangements which the Vice- 

 President of the Committee of Council on Education has made with 

 the Chief Secretary for Ireland and Mr. W. H. Smith, I am directed 

 by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to request 

 that you will move the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury 

 to transfer the vote for the Eoyal Irish Academy to the Science and 

 Art Department, in accordance with the recommendation (Section 4, 

 page XXXV.) of the Report of the Commissioners on the Science and 

 Art Department in Ireland, 1869, and with a view of furthering the 

 proposed amalgamation of the Science and Art Institutions in Dublin. 



" I have, &c., 

 (Signed), " JSToejiax MacLeod. 



" The Seceetart, 



''H.M. Treasury, Whitehall:' 



[2.] 



[Copy.] " Teeastjey Chambers, 



" imhMay, 1876. 



" My Loed, — The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury 

 have had before them Mr. MacLeod's letter of the 2nd inst., request- 

 ing their Lordships to transfer the vote of the Eoyal Irish Academy 

 to the Science and Art Department, in accordance with the recom- 

 mendation of the Report of the Commission on the Science and Art 

 Department in Ireland, 1869, and with a view of furthering the 

 proposed amalgamation of the Science and Art Institutions in Dublin. 



" I am to state in reply, that their Lordships are pleased to assent 

 to this proposal, and they desire that the Education Department be 

 considered as accounting for the vote, instead of the Chief Secretary, 

 as heretofore, from and after the 1st April, 1876. 



''A letter to this effect has been addressed to the Irish Govern- 

 ment, with whom the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education 

 should themselves communicate, with a view to the transfer of vouchers, 

 and the settlement of any details that may arise in connexion with the 

 change. 



"I am, &c., 

 [No address.] (Signed) " William Law." 



