8 Royal Irish Academy. 



"11, These regulations have been only partly acted on, the limits 

 of time having been found inconvenient, and the regulations in that 

 respect being deemed improvident, a further resolution was passed at 

 a meeting of the Council of the Academy on 18th JSTovember, 1872, 

 by which the said regulations of March, 1848, respecting the medals 

 and premiums from the Cunningham Bequest, were repealed, and it 

 was resolved that awards from it thereafter should be made at the 

 discretion of the Council, limited only by the Trusts of the Testator's 

 "Will. 



"■ 12. Subsequently, on the 3rd February, 1873, a further resolu- 

 tion was passed by the Council of the Academy, by which the Council 

 agreed to recommend the Academy to offer out of the Cunningham 

 Fund two premiums of £50 each for Essays on the then present state 

 of the Irish Language and Literature, written and unwritten, in. 

 Munster and Connaught. 



"13. This recommendation was subsequently adopted at a General 

 Meeting of the Academy, held on the 16th March, 1873. 



"14. Seven Essays were sent in, but their merit being insufficient 

 to entitle any of them to the full amount of a prize, the Council de- 

 cided to divide £50 between three of the Essayists. 



" 15. In December, 1874, the Council offered two premiums of 

 £50 each for the best Reports or Essays on the then present state of 

 the Irish Language and Literature, written and unwritten, in the 

 Provinces of Leinster and Ulster respectively. 



" 16. Three Essays were sent in, but none were of sufficient merit 

 to entitle the author to a full prize ; however, £20 was awarded to one 

 of the Essayists. 



"17. The Council have awarded no premiums since the year 

 1874. 



"18. ^Notwithstanding the desire of the Council to give premiums, 

 they have found that that form of encouraging learning out of said 

 Cunningham Eund has not been successful, and that the interest 

 of the Fund has outgrown their ability to apply it beneficially in that 

 way. 



" 19. The Council, are desirous that a scheme should be devised, 

 so as to enable the Royal Irish Academy to employ the interest on the 

 Cunningham Fund in the most advantageous and beneficial manner. 



"20. The present Members of the Council of the Academy 



