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disposal of the Congress, so far as they were not requii-ed at the time, 

 for the purposes of the Society. 



The Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press, was allowed to cliarge 

 three annas per page extra for the printing of the Journal, Proceedings^ 

 and Bibliotheca Indica, so long as English paper was used. 



The Secretary to the Government of India, Revenue and Agricul- 

 tural Department, in reply to his letter on the subject of the Archaeo- 

 logical Survey Department, was informed that the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, would prefer not giving an opinion on such points as concern 

 Bombay and Madras. It was ordered that the papers should be cir- 

 culated to the Council and to Mr. Y. A. Smith, Mr. G. A. Grierson, Mr. 

 W. Hoey, Dr. L. A. Waddell, Dr, A. Fiihrer, and Dr. M. A. Stein. 



The resignation of Colonel Jarrett, as a Member of the Council 

 and of the Society, was accepted with regret, and ordered to be an- 

 nounced at the General Meeting. 



Council resolved that the services of the Anthropological Assistant, 

 Kumad Bihari Samanta, should be dispensed with for the present. 



Permission was given to the Christian Literature Society, Madras, 

 to reprint certain Upanisads from the Bibliotheca Indica on the 

 same conditions as were granted to the Bombay Theosophical Publica- 

 tion Society. 



The supply of Volumes VIII, IX and X of the " Notices " to the 

 Benares Agent for the search for Sanskrit manuscripts was agreed to. 



At the suggestion of the Philological Secretary it was agreed that 

 a fee varying from eight annas to one rupee should be paid to the 

 Newari Pandit at the Residency, Nepal, for making copies with trans- 

 lations of some dated Newari inscriptions which had been found in 

 Nepal. 



July 26t^, Ordinary Meeting, 



Messrs. Luzac & Co., in reply to their application for the Agency 

 of the Society, were offered it on the terms previously framed in the 

 case of Messrs. Constable & Co. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Pandit Candra Kanta 

 Tarkalaqkara for the presentation of the manuscripts of " Kusumanjali 

 Vyakhya," " Tattvavali " and " Vai9esika bhasya " to tlie Society's 

 library. 



With reference to an application from the President and Secretary 

 to the Nagri Pracharini Sabha of Benares, to the Government of 

 India, Home Department, praying that the Society would publish a 

 list of such Hindi books as might be found among the Sanskrit books, 

 the Government of India was informed that the Society would be glad 

 to comply with their request. 



