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communicated to the Academy as, in the opinion of the said Council, 

 may possess eminent merit. 



4th. If, after providing for the several purposes aforesaid, any 

 balance of said annual income shall remain undisposed of, same shall 

 be applied for the purpose of increasing future pecuniary premiums, 

 to be awarded under clause two, as the said Council shall think most 

 expedient. 



Dated this 16th day of December, 1878. 



Edwaed Sullivan, M.R. 



Piled 11th of March, 1879. 



The following Amendment was moved by Professor Hennessy, and 

 seconded by Dr. Madden : — 



" That while the Meeting agrees to the payment of the law costs 

 from the Cunningham Bequest Fund, we express our regret that this 

 reduction of the Fund was not avoided by the adoption by the Council 

 of the strongly expressed opinion of many Members of the Academy, 

 that there should be no deviation from the testator's will." 



The Amendment having been declared lost, the original motion 

 was put, and carried. 



On the Peliee of Oengus. 



The following Report on the Pelire of Oengus having been taken 

 as read, its adoption was moved by Dr. Atkinson : — 



At a meeting of the Publication Committee, on March 27, 1872, 

 at which were present Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Garstin, and Dr. Sullivan, 

 the sum of £51 5s. was paid to Mr. Thom on account of the printing 

 of the Pelire. 'No further sum has ever been expended on this work 

 from the funds at the disposal of this Committee, as, in the following 

 and succeeding years, the additional grant of £200 a-year in aid of the 

 publication of Irish MSS. enabled the Committee of Irish MSS. to 

 carry on the printing of the work, without aid from the ordinary pub- 

 lishing funds of the Academy. 



In a letter from the Government, dated December 22, 1875, it was 

 especially ordered that the whole grant-in-aid of £200 a-year should 

 be " strictly appropriated to the cost of publishing the Leabhar Breac, 

 the Book of Leinster, and the Pelire of Oengus." 



Since the date of that first payment by this Committee, on March 

 27, 1872, sums amounting to £200 have been expended on the printing 



