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3. Eroin T. Harris, Esq. American Consul at Nin<rpo, submitting, 

 for exhibition to the Society, fac-simile of two inscriptions from the 

 Island of Putu in the Chusan Archipelago. 



4. From A. W. Russell, Esq. Under-Secretary to the Govern* 

 ment of Bengal, enclosing the following correspondence regarding 

 the ruins of Rajmahal. 



Extract from a letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Government of, 

 India, Home Department, to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal ', 

 No. 829, dated the 10th August, 1854. 



Para. 2. — "The Most Noble the Governor General in Council requests 

 the attention of the Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Governor to Lieutenant-Colo- 

 nel Baker's remarks on the above application, especially with reference to 

 the ruins of the palace at Bajmehal, which the Bailway Company wish to 

 take possession of, and, for the most part, to ' convert into Ballast,' and to 

 the ground applied for Westward of the line of Bail way, at present very 

 generally occupied by native huts, the removal of which, as contemplated 

 by the Bail way Company, would be objectionable. 



3. — The Governor General in Council observes that it may be necessary 

 that the ruins of the old palace at Bajmehal should be overthrown, but 

 His Lordship in Council is desirous, before according his assent to the 

 measure, to have some better voucher than the opinion of the Chief 

 Engineer of the Bailway Company for the conclusion that the sooner 

 these buildings are converted into Railway ballast the better. His Lord- 

 ship in Council therefore requests that the Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Gover- 

 nor will be good enough to advise the Government of India, as to whether 

 those ruins are in a state worth preserving or not." 



Extract from a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to 

 the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department. 

 No. 75, dated the 30th November, 1854. 



Para. 1. — "Adverting to the letter from your Office, No. 829, dated 

 the 10th August last, with enclosures, I am directed to state for the 

 information of the most Noble the Governor General of India in Council, 

 that the Lieutenant-Governor after a personal inspection of the Buins at 

 Bajmehal, is constrained to adopt the opinion already formed by the officer 

 of the Railway Company ; namely, that the structures are generally in so 

 dilapidated a condition as not to be worth preserving. The chief orna< 

 ment of the ruins in former years, the ' Sangh-i-dalan' has been lately 

 very much dismantled and has, moreover, been already appropriated by 

 the Bailway officers and wholly disfigured by being built up. It seemed 

 to the Lieutenant-Governor very doubtful however, whether, even if the 

 whole of the modern masonry were removed, sufficient of the old building 

 would remain, to render it an object worthy of preservation." 



(True Extract.) 



A. W. Bussel, 

 Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



