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the present Librarian's salary should not take effect until the 1st of 

 October. .The Duftries and other menial servants to be employed in 

 the Library, form part of the general establishment of servants now 

 proposed, and some reduction in this respect will also be effected. 



The general establishment of servants now proposed will be found 

 in the paper marked (No. 6). Several useless servants will be dis- 

 pensed with, and the whole expence of the establishment now proposed 

 will be Rs. 781 8 0, whilst the expences of the present establishment 

 are Its. 1089 8 0, and thus if the reductions now proposed be adopted, 

 the saving to the Society will be Us. 338 0* per mensem. 



For the elucidation, and in confirmation of the foregoing statement, 

 the Council lay upon the table of the Society, the following accounts 

 and papers, viz : 



No. 1, Statement of the Debts and Dependencies of the Asiatic 

 Society. 



No. 2, Statement of the average monthly Income and Expenditure 

 of the Asiatic Society. 



No. 3, Statement of the monthly Expenditure of the Asiatic Society, 

 as proposed by the Council. 



No. 4, Changes among the Members from death, withdrawal, &c. 



No. 5, List of Members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



No. 6, Revised Scheme of an Establishment of the Asiatic Society, 

 as proposed by the Council. 



One of the heaviest items in the Society's expenditure is the outlay 

 for the publication of the Journal. The council would recommend no 

 reduction on this head, which might interfere with the dissemination 

 of this work. On full consideration of the subject however, they 

 conceive that the number of copies printed may safely be reduced to 

 400, and without laying down any definite or inviolable rule for the 

 conduct of the work, they recommend that for the future, the Secre- 

 taries limit as far as possible, the outlay on the work to Rs. 250 per 

 month. 



If this can be effected, the saving to the Society, by means of these 

 General reductions, will be increased to Rs. 528. 



* Saving on account Establishment, Rs 308 



Ditto ditto Contingencies in the Zoological Department 30 



Co.'s Rs. 338 



