Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 4/3 



Home Department. — No. 685. 



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

 To W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society, dated the 29th 



July, 1848. 



Sir, — With reference to my letters Nos. 240 and 247, dated 24th April 1847, I 

 am directed by the Governor General in Council to inform the Asiatic Society that 

 the Hon'ble the Court of Directors, in a Dispatch recently received, have authorized 

 the grant to the Society of the privilege of drawing upon the Company's Dispensary 

 for monthly supplies of spirits of wine not exceeding ten Gallons, on the under- 

 standing that a part of it will be applied in preparing specimens of Natural History 

 for transmission to the Museum at the East India House. 



2. The Hon'ble the Court of Directors have also sanctioned the remission of the 

 demand to which the Society has become liable by the misapplication of the Govern- 

 ment grant of 500 Rs. per. mensem for the publication of Standard Oriental works ; 

 and have authorized the continuance of the allowance, on condition that it be scru- 

 pulously applied to the collection and publication of Oriental works of interest and 

 utility, an annual account being furnished to the Government of the appropriation 

 of the sums received. I am accordingly directed to request that such accounts 

 may be regularly furnished in future, and that a Statement be submitted of the ap- 

 propriation of the sums received by the Society since April 1847, when the misap- 

 plication of the allowance was brought to notice. 



3. With reference to the employment of this grant in the publication of the 

 Vedas, you will be pleased to inform the Society that the Hon'ble Court have sanc- 

 tioned the printing of the Rile Veda in England. It will therefore not be necessary 

 to undertake the publication of that work in Calcutta. There are, however, other 

 Vedas or portions of them which it is desirable to preserve through the means of the 

 press, and which may very properly become the objects of the Society's attention. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 



G. A. Bushby, 



Secretary to the Government of India. 

 Council Chamber, \ 



The 29th July, 1848. J 



From W. Seton Karr, Esq. Under Secy, to Govt, of Bengal, for- 

 warding a communication from Mr. Robinson, on the languages spoken 

 by the Tribes inhabiting the valley of Asam and its confines. 



Referred to the Oriental Section. 



From H. M. Elliot, Esq. Secy, to Govt, of India, Foreign Dept. for- 

 warding a narrative by Capt. Reynolds of our former relations with the 

 Densarie Garrows. 



