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to expend from the Oriental Fund, a sum not exceeding five hundred, 

 Rs. (500), in getting such of the Persian, Arabic, and Urdu, Manu- 

 scripts as require to be newly bound — rebound, also in getting such 

 of them as require transcription—transcribed. The proposition was 

 agreed to. 



He next laid on the table a letter from Capt. Hayes resigning the 

 office of Secretary to the Society, and proposed that the Society ex- 

 press their grateful sense of the services which, in the capacity of 

 Secretary, Capt. Hayes has rendered to the Society. 



The motion having been seconded by J. R. Colvin, Esq., was carried 

 unanimously. 



The President then stated that Dr. A. Sprenger having expressed 

 his willingness to accept the office of Secretary, the Council had ap- 

 pointed that gentleman a Member of Council and Secretary in the 

 room of Captain Hayes, subject to the confirmation of the Society, 

 and moved that that appointment be confirmed. 

 The motion was confirmed. 



An order of the Council granting leave of absence for six months to 

 the House Sergeant, F. Halligan, on medical certificate, was announc- 

 ed for confirmation by the Society. Ordered that the leave granted 

 to the House Sergeant be confirmed. 



In consideration of the changes which the new Code of Bye Laws, 

 and in particular Bye Law 52, has made in the organization of the 

 Council, the President tendered on behalf of himself and his col- 

 leagues in the Council, their resignation to the Society, and proposed 

 that the June Meeting be made special for the election of a new 

 Council. The proposal was adopted, and the Council was requested to 

 continue in office until the election of their successors. 



Mr. Mitchell gave notice that he will, at the next Meeting, call the 

 attention of the Society to the following passage in the last number of 

 the Journal, and move that Mr. Piddington be called upon to withdraw 

 or explain it. 



" It may be proper, specially in reference to certain insinuations, 

 which I refrain from qualifying, made at the July Meeting of the 

 Asiatic Society, regarding the Museum of Economic Geology, to preface 

 this report with the following letter, &c." 



The following communications were then laid before the Society. 



