Report. xxvii 



Disbursements of the Asiatic Society, for the year 1847* Cr. 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



By Museum. 



Paid Mr. E. Blyth's Salary as Curator 



for 12 months, at 250 Rs. per month, 3,000 



Ditto house-rent at 40 Rs. per ditto, . . 480 



Ditto in full of the arrears of his Salary 

 from 1st May 1844 to October, 1846, 



at 100 Rs. per month, 3,200 



6,680 



Paid Establishment of Taxidermists, Artists, Carpen- 

 ters, &c, for 12 months, 1,750 



Paid Contingencies, 793 



Paid Mr. Holquett for proceeding to Dargeeling, .... 70 



Paid for a Glass Case for depositing Shells, 70 



By Museum Economic Geology. 



Paid Mr. H. Piddington's Salary as Joint- Curator for 



12 months, at 250 Rs. per month, 3,000 



Paid Establishment for ditto at 31 Rs. per ditto, .... 372 



Paid Contingencies for ditto, 149 



Paid for 4 Glass Cases granted by Go- 

 vernment for the use of the Museum, 296 



Less paid on the 24th November, 1846, 80 



216 











7 



3 











7 



6 



















13 







9,363 14 9 



By Library, 

 Paid Babu Rajendra Lall Mitter's Salary as Assistant 



Secretary and Librarian for 12 months, at 100 Rs. 



per month, 1,200 



Paid Establishment for ditto, 702 



Paid Contingencies for ditto, 88 



Paid Messrs. Thacker and Co., and Ostell and Lepage, 



&c, for purchase of Books, 772 



Paid Freight and sundry charges on Books, Parcels, 



&c, 73 



Paid for binding Books, 133 



Paid for 2 dozen of Toon Wood Chairs, 45 



3,737 13 



By Oriental Publications. 

 Paid Establishment for Oriental Works for 12 months, 849 



Paid Contingencies, 5 



Paid Dr. J. Heeberlin, for 100 Copies of Sanscrit An- 

 thology, 800 



Paid for the purchase of sundry Oriental Works, .... 125 

 Paid for Copying the Arabic Work Naharal Phaik, &c. 4 



Paid for binding Oriental Works 97 



Paid for the purchase of the following new 5 per Cent. 

 Government Loans : — 



No. 18878 for Co.'s Rs 1,500, 1,500 



No. 4140 of 22567 ditto, 500, 488 7 6 



No. 19620 ditto, 1,000, 1,008 10 7 



1 Piece ditto ditto, 1,000, 1,000 



3,997 2 1 











13 



10 



10 







6 







15 







6 



6 











1 



7 



12 



3 



























12 







3,016 3 4 



Carried over, 5,878 11 11 16,117 15 1 



