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your Petitioners received tlic folloTring communication from Her 



Majesty's Irish Government : — 



"Dublin- Castle, 



" nth Mmj, 1876, 



" SlE, 



''I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to transmit here- 

 with, for the information of the Council of the Royal Irish Acadeniy, 

 copies of a letter and the enclosures referred to therein, which have 

 been received from the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, 

 relative to the transfer of the charge of the Yote for the Koyal Irish 

 Academy to the Science and Art Department, London, and to request 

 that in future all applications for issues of the grant may be made to 

 the Committee of Council on Education, Science and Art Department, 

 South Kensington, London, S. W. 



" I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 

 (Signed), " T. H. Bueke. 



"■ The Tkeastjeee, Eotal Ieish Academy, 

 19, Bawson-street.''^ 



6. In said communication, were enclosed copies of certain Letters 

 of the 2nd, 10th, and 11th of May, in the Schedule hereto re-copied 

 and set forth, and to which your Petitioners humbly crave leave to 

 refer, from which it appears . that such change of the charge of the 

 Vote has been made in supposed accordance with the recommendation 

 (No. 4, p. xxxv) of the Report of the Commissioners on the Science 

 and Art Department in Ireland, in 1869 ; and with a view to further- 

 ing a proposed amalgamation of the Science and Art Institutions in 

 Dublin. 



7. The said Commissioners did not, in their Report referred to, or 

 at all, recommend the transfer of the charge of the vote for the Royal 

 Irish Academy from Her Majesty's Irish Government to the Education 

 Department of Science and Art, as is stated in said Letter of the 2nd 

 May, being the Letter moving the Lords Commissioners of the Trea- 

 sury to such change. 



8. No such project of amalgamation, as in said Letter is referred to, 

 has ever been submitted by or on behalf of Her Majesty's Government 

 to the Royal Irish Academy, or has ever, to your Petitioners' know- 

 ledge, received the sanction or approval of Her Majesty's Government ; 



K. I. A. MINL'TES, SESSION 1875-6. t 



