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The Acting Secretary informed the Meeting, that the sum of Rs. 76 : 10 : 3 

 having been paid as import duty on Professor Mill's Bast, (to clear it 

 from the Custom House pending the application) he had applied to the Col- 

 lector of Customs for a refund of this amount, which upon his favour- 

 able report to Government, was duly ordered and paid. 



Read the following letter from the Officiating Secretary to Government 

 of India, Military Department : — 



No. 285. 



To the Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 Military Department. 



Sir, — I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 

 24th November last, and in reply to transmit to you, for the information 

 of the Asiatic Society, a Copy of the Surveyor General's Despatch, No. 36, 

 dated 13th August 1842, the original of which was recalled by an Office 

 Memo, of the 5th December last. 



2. The Surveyor General of India, with whom it may be expedient 

 you should communicate on the subject of printing the Report upon 

 the operations for measuring an Arc of the Meridian carried through 

 the centre of the Peninsula to the Northern confines of Hindoostan, 

 has received instructions to take the necessary steps to ensure the pro- 

 per publication of the Report in the Researches of the Asiatic Society. 



I am, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



W. M. N. Sturt, Major, 

 Officiating Secretary to the Government 



of India, Military Department. 

 Council Chamber, \lth February 1843. 



And from the Secretary to Government, General Department. 



No. 21, of 1843. 



From G. A. Bushby, Esq., Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, to 

 H. Piddington, Esq., Acting Secretary to the Asiatic Society, Fort William, 

 the 1 5 th February, 1843. 

 Political Department 



Sir, — In acknowledging the receipt of your letter dated 22nd ultimo, 

 I am directed to inform you, that His Honor the President in Council 

 will be glad to have from the Asiatic Society, a few lithographed copies 

 of the Inscription received from Aden, for the use of the Hon'ble the 

 Court of Directors. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 



G. A. Bushby, 

 Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, 

 Fort William, 1 5th February, 1843. 



