56 Annual Bejport. [Feb. 



Septemler 2Tth. Ordinary Meeting. 

 A proposal from the Municipality to purchase for Es. 800 a piece of 

 ground belonging to the Society and required to widen Park Street, was 

 declined. 



Under Eule 7, the Council elected the following gentlemen Members 

 of the Society. 



Mr. John Hart and Mr. J. Digges La Touch, C. S. 



October 1st. Ordinary Meeting. 



A request from Professor Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tute, to be supplied with certain Journals and Proceedings wanting in his 

 set, was complied with. 



A recommendation of the Finance Committee that on account of the 

 excessive expenditure of the O. P. Fund, measures should be taken to 

 reduce expenses for a time, was agreed to, and the publications ordered to 

 be stopped for three months. 



Babu Kedarnath Bysack was confirmed in the post of Cashier to the 

 Society. 



Bead the minutes of the Council on the expense of the printing and 

 plates of the Atkinson Collection of Lepidoptera. It was ordered that the 

 Society could not afford more than £300, including the printing. The 

 number of copies may be reduced to 225, quarto size, including 25 authors* 

 copies. The expenditure to be spread over three years — 1877-78-79. The 

 work to be printed in England ; the plates to be headed — Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal. The question whether the work is to form Part I of the Asiatic 

 Researches is to be circulated to Council for re-consideration at the next 

 meeting. Rs. 500 of Government Securities to be sold out and £50 to be 

 remitted to Mr. Grote. 



On the recommendation of the Finance Committee an addition of 

 Rs. 5 per mensem to the pay of the Assistant Cashier was sanctioned, to be 

 payable by the Society, the balance of his pay being paid by the 0. P. 

 Fund as at present. 



November ^OtTi. Ordinary Meeting. 



On the recommendation of the Finance Committee a bill for Rs. 874-4, 

 expended in the publication of a Catalogue raisonne of the Society's 

 Sanskrit MSS., was charged to the Conservation of Sanskrit MSS. Fund, in 

 accordance with Government orders on this subject. 



The pay of Jussim, Durwan, was ordered to be increased from Rs. 6 to 

 Rs. 7 a month. 



