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liberty to retain your present quarters till the period of your departure from 

 Calcutta, as also the offer of half the salary received by you during the three years 

 of your employment, I am desired to state that, although the Society accepts your 

 resignation, with the expression of its acknowledgments for your valuable services, 

 yet it cannot accept your offer of the refund of " the half salary for three years :" 

 but your motives for making it are duly appreciated. 



2. With reference to the continued connection with yourself and the Society, the 

 Committee of Papers accedes to placing you on the same footing as you were before 

 you became Librarian, i. e. to receive an allowance from the Societyof Rupees 60 

 per month, with permission to retain, till your departure from Calcutta, the rooms 

 now occupied by you. 



3. The foregoing arrangements to have effect from the 15th instant. 



I am &c. 

 CSigned) H. Tour ens. 



Secretary Asiatic Society* 



' To G. a. Bushby, Esq. 



' Secretary to the Government of India. 

 ' Gen, Dept, 



•Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter. No. 309, dated 

 the 7th ultimo with its enclosure, and in reply to state for the information of the 

 Right Hon'ble the Governor General of India in Council, that the Asiatic Society 

 would prefer that the consideration by them of the suggestion of the mode of re- 

 funding the advance of ^iSO, for outfit and passage made to Mr. E. Blythe, who has 

 been selected as the Curator of the Society by the Hon'ble the Court of Directors, 

 be left in abeyance till the arrival of that individual. 



I have, &c. 



("Signed) H. Torrens, 



Secretary Asiatic Society. 



NOTICE. 



Wanted, a Librarian for the Asiatic Society of Bengal, at a Salary of Rs. 100 per 

 month. No candidate need apply who is not a man of education and of literary 

 habits, more or less acquainted with Oriental languages, and who is not prepared 

 to attend in the Library for not less than four hours a day. 



Applications to be submitted addressed to H. Torrens, Secretary Asiatic Society. 



