\i\ Report. 



limit v is afforded tor the insertion of opinions or expressions to which 

 members may reasonably object, it is recommended by the Council that 

 the report of proceedings be signed by the Secretary and countersigned 

 bv the President of the evening, who thus become individually responsi- 

 ble for the restriction of the report to the mere business of each meet- 

 ing. 



Council. 



The functions of the Council should, to obviate embarrassment, be 

 defined by rule, to be what in practice these have always been, that of a 

 managing body empowered to represent the Society on all urgent occa- 

 sions, and to have entire control over all honorary or paid officers of 

 the Society, subject to the approbation of a general meeting, and re- 

 stricted from incurring any expenditure above lis. 200, except by a vote 

 of the Society. It is recommended that their number be increased to 

 12, and that Dr. Walker, Mr. Seton Karr, Lord Arthur Hay and Dr. 

 James Dodd, be elected members for the ensuing year. 



President. 



The Council are unanimously of opinion with respect to this office, 

 that the original practice of the Society should be reverted to ; that the 

 Governor General should be respectfully solicited to become the Patron 

 (not President) of the Society, and the Council be authorized to take 

 the necessary steps on Lord Dalhousie's arrival, to submit the desire 

 of the Society to his Lordship's consideration ; further that a President 

 be elected from their own body. The Council accordingly are happy 

 to announce that they have received a requisition from 27 resident 

 members* inviting Mr. J. W. Colvile, the Advocate General, to accept 



* The undersigned, Vice-Presidents and Members of the Asiatic Society, being of opi- 

 nion that the old and established usage of the Society regarding the office of President 

 should be reverted to, on the occasion of the vacancy about to take place by the depar- 

 ture of Lord Hardinge, have the honor to propose for the consideration of the Council, 

 and recommendation to the Society at the next general meeting, that Mr. J. W. Colvile 

 be elected President of the Society. 

 Astatic Society, 28th Bee. 1847. 



D. Calcutta. VV. Grey. 



.1. P. Chant. J. W. Laideay. 



G. A. Bushby. Debendernatii Tagore. 



