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Bengal, enquiring if their was any objection to Rni Sarat Chandra Das 

 and his two assistants, named Pandit Sarat Chandra Sliastri and Satis 

 Chandra Vidyabhushan using the Biblioiheca Indica series and the 

 Oriental Manuscripts, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Nepalese, &c., in the Society's 

 Rooms during office hours. It was resolved that the letter be formally 

 acknowledged and the Chief Secretary be informed as follows : — 



(1) That the permission now sought for was accorded on the 28th 

 February, 1895, to Rai Sarat Chandra Das Bahadur and his assistants, 

 but that the permission was withdrawn owing to complaint having been 

 made of the disorderly conduct and disregard of the authority of the 

 officials of the Society by the Pandits of the Rai Bahadur. 



(2) In granting the permission, the Council acted under no written 

 rule of the Society, but in accordance with the unwritten rule of all 

 learned Societies to render every assistance in tlieir power to earnest 

 students, whether Members of the Society or not ; a rule which carries 

 with it the reciprocal obligation of good behaviour on the part of those 

 to whom the assistance is extended. 



(3) The Council, finding this obligation unrecognised and dis- 

 regarded, and being unable to formally impose conditions, found them- 

 selves compelled to withdraw the privileges formerly granted. 



(4) So far from wishing to oppose the progress of Rai Sarat 

 Chandra Das Bahadur's work or that of any other, the Council has 

 appointed a Committee with instructions to draft regulations under 

 which persons other than Members of the Society may be permitted to 

 consult books and manuscripts in the Society's Library. 



Mr. H. B. Perie was granted Rs. 50 instead of Rs. 25 for revising 

 the Index to Sherring's Hindu Castes and Tribes. 



July \st. Ordinary Meeting. 



On the recommendation of the Natural History Secretary, an 

 exchange of the Society's Journal, Part II, and Proceedings for the 

 Report of the Gr. V. Juggarow Observatory, Vizagapatam, was 

 sanctioned. 



The resignation of Dr. Ranking of the Philological Secretaryship 

 of the Society was accepted, and Dr. Bloch was asked if he would 

 accept the Philological Secretaryship. 



On an application from the Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press, 

 it was agreed to allow the press to charge for any work done that may 

 be stopped for a period of six months. 



On an application from Mrs. A. S. Beveridge on the subject of 

 the publication of a Persian manuscript of a memoir of Babar and 

 Humayun written by Gulbadan Begum with English Notes in the 



