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Resolution adopted by a General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, 4th November, 184G. 



Resolved, that Government be respectfully solicited to permit the Society to de- 

 fray from the monthly allowance of Rs. 500 for Oriental Publications, first, the 

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

 mensem allowed by Government has lately been withdrawn) and 2d, the cost of 

 publication in the Society's Transactions and Journal of all papers on Oriental litera- 

 ture, History, Antiquities, Geography and kindred subjects of research. 



The following reply from Mr. Secretary Bushby, dated 21st Novem- 

 ber, 1846, was received after the meeting of December. 



From G. A. Bushby, Esq. Secretary to the Government of India. 



Dated 2lst November, 1846. Home Department. 



To W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Esa. Senior Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — " I am directed by the Hon'ble the President in Council to acknowledge 

 the receipt of your letter dated the 7th instant, conveying the solicitation of the 

 Society, that in the future disposal of the means placed in their hands by Govern- 

 ment 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 So- 

 ciety's Transactions and Journal, all papers on Oriental Literature, History, Anti- 

 quities, Geography and kindred subjects of research, and also to meet therefrom 

 the cost of preserving the Oriental Works now in the Library." 



2. " In order the better to be able to decide on the Society's Application, the 

 President in Council could wish to have before him a statement in detail of the 

 manner in which the Government grant of 500 Rs. per mensem has hitherto been 

 appropriated." 



3. " His honor in Council remarks that the conditions of the grant have not 

 been fully carried out by the Society. One of these conditions was that an Annual 

 Account should be rendered by the Society of the manner in which the Government 

 donation had been expended. This seems to have been lost sight of, for the only 

 account current rendered by the Society is that forwarded with your letter dated 

 the 13th January, 1840." 



4. " Again it should be shown how the wish expressed by the Hon'ble Court of 

 Directors in regard to the printing of the text of the Vedas, with a commentary, 

 has been kept in mind, and what may be the purpose of the Asiatic Society in 

 regard to the publication of this important Record." 



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