Minutes of Proceedings. 395 



Council, November 6th, 1899. 



Eead the following letter : — 



[11227] Chief Seceetaet's Oeeice, 



Dublin Castle, June 22nd, 1899. 



SlB, 



I am directed by tlie Lords Justices to acknowledge the receipt of 

 your letter of the 20th instant, conveying the request of the Council of 

 the Eoyal Irish Academy to be informed of the course which Her 

 Majesty's Government intend to take with respect to the gold orna- 

 ments found in Ireland in 1896 and subsequently purchased by the 

 British Museum ; and I am to say that the matter is still engaging the 

 attention of Government, and that a decision will be announced as soon 



as possible. 



I am, 



Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



J. B. DoiTGHEETT, 



The Seceetaet oe Cotin-cil, 



KoTAL Ieish Academy, 



Council, December 3rd, 1900. 

 [Eesolved that the folio wiag letter be forwarded] : — 



EoTAL Ieish Academy. 



19, Dawson STEEET,DT7BLrN", 



bthJDecemler, 1900. 



SlE, 



Eef erring to previous correspondence relative to the gold ornaments 

 found in the ITorth of Ireland and to the answers given to questions on 

 the subject in the House of Commons, indicating that an Inquisition 

 would be held relative to the circumstances of their finding ; and the 

 subsequent answer, of the 6th August of the present year, of the Chief 

 Secretary, to a question of Sir Thomas Esmonde, stating that: 



" It had recently beea ascertained that the words of the 

 patent of 10 Charles II., granted to the Irish Society for the 

 Plantation of Ulster, are large enough to vest in this Society 

 the right to Treasure Trove " ; 



