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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 Eeport of the Commissioners on the Science and 

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

 proposed amalgamation of the Science and Art Institutions in Dublin. 



" I have, &c., 



(Signed), " jS'oe:ia>' ITacLeod. 



" The Seceetaey, 



" H. II. Treasury. Whitehall." 



' ' TeEASITlT CHiMEEES, 



" IQth May, 1876. 

 " IIt Loed, 



" The Lords Commissioners of Her ITajesty's Treasury 

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

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

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

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

 Department in Ireland, 1869, and with a view of fui'theiing the pro- 

 posed 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 Yote, instead of the Chief Secretary 

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



"A letter to this effect has been adcbessed 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., 

 (Signed), " "^iiiiiii Law." 



" TeEASEEY CsAiEBEES, 



WtlJUay, 1876. 



"SlE, 



" I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Treasury, to transmit, for the information of His Grace the 

 Lord Lieutenant, the enclosed copy of coiTespondence* which has. 



* Education Department to Treasury. Eeply. 



