No. 46.— 1895.] PROCEEDINGS. 



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COUNCIL MEETING. 



Colombo Museum, September 24, 1895. 



Present : 

 Mr. Staniforth Green in the Chair. 



J. Ferguson. P. Ramanathan, C.M.G. 



Dr. W. G. Vandort. 



Mr. J. Harward and Mr. G. A. Joseph, Honorary Secretaries. 



Business. 



L Read and confirmed Minutes of Meeting held on August 6, 1895 



2. Laid on the table circular No. 173 of August 12, 1895, cover- 

 ing a Paper entitled " A Note on an Ancient method employed in the 

 instruction of Elementary Sinhalese," by Mr. W. Arthur de Silva, 

 referred to Messrs. E. A. Gooneratna, Mudaliyar, and Simon de Silva, 

 Mudaliyar, for their opinions, and read the Minutes on the circular. 



Resolved,— That in view of the remarks of the gentlemen to whom 

 the Paper had been referred concerning a similar Paper by Mr. Silva, 

 in the Ceylon Friend, that Mr. Silva be informed that any explanation 

 he may desire to offer would be brought before the Council. 



3. Laid on the table the following Papers, being a continuation of 

 the series of Papers on the " Ancient Cities and Temples in the Kurune- 

 gala District ": — 



(a) Ridi Vihara. 



(b) Panduwas Nuwara. 



Resolved,— That the Papers be referred to Mr. H>. C. P. Bell, 

 Archaeological Commissioner, for his opinion. 



4. It was brought to the notice of the Council the fact that since 

 January last, 30 per cent, (as in the case of all private accounts), had 

 been added to the actual cost of printing done for the Society at the 

 Government Press, instead of the work being executed at cost price as 

 hitherto. 



The Honorary Secretaries explained that the charge had been made 

 without any previous official communication about the matter from the 

 Government Printer. A letter from the Honorary Treasurer to the 

 Honorary Secretary was read to the Meeting, in which the former 

 stated that he had an interview with the Acting Government Printer 

 on the subject, who gave as his reason for not acquainting the Society 

 with the fact of the new charge, that the order was simply a Depart- 

 mental one. 



After some discussion it was decided that the Secretaries do look 

 up the correspondence and endeavour to ascertain how the Society 

 came originally to have its publications printed at the Government 

 Press, and under what conditions ; and that in the event of a satis- 



