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aid of their advice and encouragement, they will be rendering ns, at 

 the present time, a very essential service. 



D. F. M'Leod. 



Lahore, the 22nd May, 1866. 



Resolution of provisional Committee at Lahore, in regard to the 

 relation which they desire to be established between the 'proposed Oriental 

 XJnversity and, the Government. 



The following Resolution was arrived at by the provisional Com- 

 mittee of the Oriental University, consisting of more than half of the 

 supporters of the movement, at a meeting held on the morning of the 

 30th (thirtieth) of April, 1866 :— 



" That the supporters of the Oriental University movement consi- 

 der it essential to the success of the objects they have in view, that the 

 Oriental University should have a separate existence ; that it should 

 give every guarantee of proper financial management which the Go- 

 vernment and the public may require ; that the Grant-in-aid rules 

 are the only ones which at present meet the case of the Oriental 

 University, but that they should be in so far modified as to admit of 

 the direct control of the Vice-Patron, the Governor- General ; Chan- 

 cellor (the Lieutenant-Governor) ; the Official Governor and the Coun- 

 cil ;* which the dignity and vastness of the scheme, as a national one, 

 essentially require." 



The above papers having been read, the Chairman moved on behalf 

 of the Council — " That this meeting is desirous of placing on record 

 its appreciation of the enlightened interest in the promotion of the 

 study of oriental literature evinced by the Lieutenant-Governor of the 

 Punjab, in his late reply to the address of the founders of the proposed 

 oriental college at Lahore." 



Major Lees said that he desired to make a few remarks before the 

 resolution was put from the chair, for two reasons— First, to correct an 

 erroneous impression that had got abroad, that any apathy had been 

 shown by the Society in noticing the movement that have been made 

 in the Punjab for the encouragement of the study of the oriental 



* Vide rough draft <>r the Oriental University as published in the Lahore 

 Ctwowbch and the Pwyab Educational Magazine. 



