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capacity, he will continue to afford them his highly valuable co-opera- 

 tion in the prosecution of the numerous objects of literary and antiqua- 

 rian research which he has already pursued with such eminent success. 



Resolved, that J. W. Laidlay, Esq., be elected a Co-Secretary of 

 this Society. 



Resolved, that the management of the Correspondence — general busi- 

 ness of the Society — and immediate control of the office establishment 

 be assigned to the Senior Secretary, in order to obviate the confusion 

 which is apt to arise when the duties of one office devolve on two indi- 

 viduals. 



Mr. Torrens was accordingly elected an Honorary Vice-President of 

 the Society, and the 1st and 2d resolutions proposed by the Committee 

 of Papers were unanimously carried ; the 3d, relative to the arrange- 

 ments for the secretariat duties being left to these officers to settle as 

 they may think fit. 



The following Report was submitted of the conference between the 

 Committees of Papers and Finance, held on the 29th October, in ac- 

 cordance with the resolution of the Society passed at the October 

 regular meeting. 



Asiatic Society, 29th October, 1846. 



Pursuant to the resolution of the last meeting, the Committees of 

 Papers and Finance met at the Society's rooms at 8£ p. m. 



Present. 



W. P. Grant, Esq., in the Chair ; Lt.-Colonel Forbes, Messrs. Ward, 

 Frith, Heatley, Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Secretary, Mr. Bolst, Ac- 

 countant, in attendance. 



The Second Report of the Finance Committee having been read, the 

 Committees proceeded to examine the items of the proposed scale of 

 expenditure in each Department. 



Oriental Publications. 



The Committees of Papers and Finance recommend that Government 

 be respectfully solicited to permit the Society to defray from the month- 

 ly allowance of 500 Rs. for Oriental Publications, 1st, the expense of 

 the custody of the works now in store (for which a sum of 78 rupees 



