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parties resident beyond twenty miles from Calcutta to be returnable 

 on demand, at the end of three months from the date of issue as above 

 provided, but the Council may, in regard to books issued to such 

 parties, dispense with their actual return by the 1st January in each 

 year, on being satisfied that the books are in good order, and that 

 the Society is not likely to suffer by their not being recalled to 

 the library. 



" In order to carry out the valuation part of these provisions, the 

 Committee desire that the Librarian will commence immediately on 

 the systematic valuation of the whole library, and proceed therewith 

 gradually under the direction of the Secretaries until the valuation 

 be complete as to all the printed works." 



Resolved that the recommendations of the Council be adopted. 



Bead letters : — 



6th. — Prom J. J. Gray, Esq. Goamaty, Maldah, announcing that 

 he has obtained a MS. copy of the History of Bengal by Gholam 

 Hosein entitled " Ryaz-us-Salateen" and promising to send it to the 

 Society. 



7th. — From Dr. Fayrer, Rangoon, forwarding copies of Meteoro- 

 logical Registers kept at the Rangoon Field Hospital, for the months 

 of May and June, 1853. 



8th. — From Hodgson Pratt, Esq. Officiating Under-Secretary to 

 the Government of Bengal, enclosing correspondence on the subject 

 of iron found in the Raneegunge district. 



9th. — From Captain J. C. Haughton, Cheybassa, submitting the 

 following note on a ruined city in Singbhoom. — 



" In No. 103 (Vol. IX. p. 694 et seq.) of the Asiatic Society's 

 Journal for 1840 is a note by the late Mr. Torrens, appended to Capt. 

 Tickell's memoir on the Colehan, soliciting further information re-r 

 garding the antiquities of Singhbhoom, and, in No. 186 of 1848, a 

 native report of the existence of a ruined city in this quarter is 

 noticed. Having traversed Singhbhoom in almost every direction, 

 I am able to furnish some negative information on the subject, 

 which I now offer for those who take an interest in the question. 



" The only remains in the country, known to me, which have any 

 pretensions to antiquity are those at Benee Sagur, Kesna and 

 Nagra. The two former places have been noticed by Capt. Tickell and 



