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their correspondence, foreign and internal, and that he have the supervision of the 

 publication of the Journal. 



4. That he be assisted by a Sub-Secretary, whose duty will be to act under the 

 Secretary for the purposes noted in No. 3, as also for the general charge of the pre- 

 mises, and property of the Society ; to check all petty charges and disbursements 

 in the departments of Curator and the Museum, and the Curator of the Museum Eco- 

 nomical Geology, before submitting them to the Secretary, and to assist in editing the 

 Journal of the Society under that officer. 



5. That he be paid for these services, 200 rupees a month. 



And here is the supposed difficulty, the procuring of funds for this salary. 

 Now the interest of our funded monies— Rupees 13,000, Csoma de Koros' legacy (Rs. 

 4000) not included ; gives about 60 (sixty) rupees a month. 



The appointment of a Sub-Secretary will render superfluous that of the Museum 

 Clerk employed under the Librarian on 60 (sixty) rupees a month. The demand from 

 Government of the payment of the contingent charges of the Museum Economic Geo- 

 logy, averaging about 40 (forty) rupees a month will save the Society this sum,* and 

 render it so much available for general purposes. 

 Thus we should have : — 



Interest, . . . . . . . . 60 ) 



Salary saved, . . .. .. .. 60 C Rs. per Mensem. 



Charges saved, .. .. .. 40.) 



Total Rs. . . . . . . 160 



The residue necessary for the complement of 200 rupees, may be easily spared 

 out of the sum (about 4,000 rupees,) which used to be spent annually by the Society in 

 the purchase of the Journal for their members, and I can safely say, that the expense 

 will be more than trebly covered by the saving which close supervision and better 

 management must induce in the cost and charges of editing the Journal as the pro- 

 perty of the Society. 



I would have suggested the re-organization of our Accountant's Office and Assign- 

 ment to the Sub-Secretary of the duties belonging to it, but I cannot recommend that 

 scheme. 



The Sub-Secretary should be relieved from all financial responsibility, and be left 

 to devote himself to the active duties of his peculiar position. Mr. Piddington, with 

 his other work, will have, as I see he has now, more than ample occupation for all his 

 time in the Sub- Secretariat, the duties of which he is indeed experimentally per- 

 forming. 



Sub-Secretary's Salary. 

 Interest, .. .. .. 60 



Salary saved, 



Costs ditto, 



Allowed from Journal, 



60 

 40 

 40 



200 



Total Rs. 



As the contingent charges of the Museum Economic Geology, may be occasionally 

 under 40 rupees, it might be well to rate our new outlay at 50 rupees a month, for 



* I never sent in this bill to Government, keeping the demand until the Museum Rooms for the 

 institution had been built at the Society's cost and charges, when it might justly be made. 



