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3,600 per annum whilst our average expenditure was Rs. 6,000 per 

 annum. 



6. The Sub-Committee beg to bring to the especial notice of the So- 

 ciety, the following communication regarding Oriental publications from 

 the Secretary to the Government of Bengal, dated 20th June, 1838, and 

 which is recorded in our Journal of June, 1838, pages 556 and follow- 

 ing, viz : — 



To James Prinsep, Esq. Secretary Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — With reference to jour letter to this department, dated 21st September, 

 1835, and to the reply dated the 30th of the same month, I am directed by the Ho- 

 nourable the Deputy Governor of Bengal to transmit, for the information of the 

 Society, the accompanying copy of a letter, No. 8, of 1838, from the Honourable the 

 Court of Directors, in the public department, dated the 28th March, and of its 

 enclosures ; and to state that the sum of 500 Co.'s Rs. per month, has from the 

 18th June, the date of the receipt of the despatch, been placed at the disposal 

 of the Asiaiic Society, for employment in the manner indicated by the Honourable 

 Court. The amount will be made payable monthly from the General Treasury on 

 the bills of the Secretary of the Society, countersigned by the President and duly 

 audited, and at the close of each year, an account must be rendered, shewing the 

 manner in which the amount has been expended. 



I am, &c. 

 (Signed) H. T. Prinsep, 

 Secy, to the Govt, of Bengal. 



Fort William, the 20th June, 1838. 



The Sub-Committee beg to recommend, in accordance with the spe- 

 cific terms contained in the above communication, that the Secretary of 

 the Society be desired to draw up an account-current of the receipts and 

 expenditure of the Oriental Publication Fund, from the commencement 

 to the present time, as no such documents appear to have been regularly 

 furnished. As far as the Committee can ascertain, it would appear that 

 up to the beginning of the present year, the balance for the purpose of 

 the fund, not expended, and which ought to be in our hands, amounts 

 to not less than Rs. 25,000. 



7. On a mature consideration of the financial position, the various 

 operations and obligations of the Society, the Sub -Committee would 

 beg strongly to recommend to the Society that the following scale of Ex- 

 penditure for the various objects specified should be immediately adopt- 

 ed and strictly adhered to, viz : — 



