96 Report. [Jan. 



During the period in question the Society has published, or paid 

 towards the publication of " Oriental" works : — 



Paid for publishing Oriental works, 6,463 1 6 



Do. for purchase of Oriental works, &c 657 10 



Do. Contingent charges for Do. , 561 15 11 



Amount disbursed on account of Oriental ] ^ , -n m cart , , 

 «,,..- 7 Co.'s Rs. 7,682 11 5 



Publications from 1842 to 1846, J 



Establishment for preservation of Oriental-* 



works, &c. from September to December > 272 



1846, @ 68 Rs. per month, J 



Total Co.'s Rs. 7,954 11 5 

 Bee. 31, 1846. 



While we have received during the same period at 500 



Rs. per month for five years, Co.'s Rs. 30,000 



leaving Co.'s Rs. 22,045 4 7. 



Due by the Society to the account of the grant in question.* 



The Committee of Papers have been led to this retrospective view of 

 the subject of the Oriental publication grant by the circumstances which 

 have followed the resolutions adopted by the Society at their meeting of 

 November, 1846, and which gave rise to the annexed correspondence. 



To G. A. Bushby, Esq. 



Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department. 



Sir, — I am directed by the Asiatic Society of Bengal to convey through you 

 their most respectful solicitation that, in the future disposal of the means placed in 

 their hands by Government for the promotion of Oriental literature, they may be 

 permitted to defray from the monthly allowance of Co.'s Rs. 500, the expense of 

 printing in the Society's Transactions and Journal all papers on the subjects named 

 in the subjoined resolution — Aud also to meet therefrom the cost of preserving the 

 Oriental works now in the Library, for which a monthly allowance of 78 Rs. long 

 awarded by Government has been recently withdrawn. 



I have, &c. &c. 

 (Signed) W. B. O'Shaughnessy, 



Senior Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



* Of which Rs. 1,500, the amount received on this account since Sept. 1846, are 

 in hand and available for the regular purpose according to the Governmeut order. 



