NOTICE. 



A mistaken impression having gone abroad respecting the high rate of 

 subscription said to be required from Members of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, the Committee of Papers desire specially to note that the total 

 subscription entitling a Member to all the usual privileges as hereinafter 

 noted, is sixty-four rupees a year, or five rupees five annas a month. 



Mulfs of tje Ustattc g>oaeta?. 



The following is an abstract of the Rules of this Institution which are now in force, including 

 those printed in the Appendix to the sixth and subsequent Volumes of the Society's Transactions. 



Original Rules adopted from the Founder's Discourse 15/A February, 1784. 



1.— The Institution shall be denominated the Asiatic Society, the bounds of its investigations 

 will be the Geographical limits of Asia, and within these limits its enquiries will be extended to 

 whatever is performed by man or produced by nature. 



2.— Weekly meetings shall be held for the purpose of hearing Original Papers read on such sub- 

 jects as fall within the circle of the Society's enquiries. 



3. — All curious and learned men shall be invited to send their Tracts to the Secretary, for which 

 they shall immediately receive the thanks of the Society. 



4.— The Society's Researches shall be published Annually, if a sufficiency of valuable materials 

 be received. 



5. — Mere Translations of considerable length shall not be admitted except of such unpublished 

 Essays or Treatises as may be transmitted to the Society by Native Authors. 



6. — All questions shall be decided on a Ballot, by a majorty of two-thirds, and nine Members 

 shall be required to constitute a Board for such decisions. 



7. — No new member shall be admitted who has not expressed a voluntary desire to become so, 

 and in that case no other qualification shall be required than a love of knowledge, and a zeal for 

 the promotion of it. 



Subsequent Resolutions of the Society which are in force. 



8.— The future meetings of the Society shall be held on the first Wednesday of each alternate 

 month, viz. in the months of February, April, June, August, October, and December, at nine 

 o'clock in the Evening. 



9. — If any business shoi^ld occur to require intermediate meetings they may be convened by the 

 President, who may also, when necessary, appoint any other day of the week, instead of Wednes- 

 day for the stated meetings of the Society. 



10. — As it may not always be convenient for the President, to attend the meetings of the Society, 

 a certain Number of Vice Presidents shall be elected annually. 



11.— In case the President and the Vice Presidents are absent at any meeting, a quarter of an 

 hour after the fixed time, the Senior Member present shall take the chair for the Evening. 



12.— Every Member of the Society shall have the privilege of introducing as a Visitor, any Gen- 

 tleman, who is not usually resident in Calcutta. 



