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Resolved, that Thursday the 3rd of March next, be appointed for 

 the Annual General Meeting, to be held in the Strangers' Room 

 at the Club, at 6 o'clock P. M., and that a Notice to that effect be 

 published in the Fort Saint George Gazette. 



Resolved, that the thanks of the Meeting be conveyed to the 

 Philological Society of London, for the presentation of three 

 volumes of their Transactions for 1854-55, and 56, and that a copy 

 of the Literary Society's Journal be forwarded to that Institution, 

 as published, and from the commencement of the new series. 



Read a paper received from the Honorable Mr. Elliot, being an 

 Historical Account of the Fort at Vellore, by Captain Hawkes. 



This paper appears to be a copy of a Memorandum prepared in 

 1815, and gives a traditional account of the Fort and Temples from 

 the year A. D. 1365, from the building of the Fort by a Telugu 

 Chieftain, to its subsequent possession by the Mahrattas, and its 

 final conquest by the Mahomeclans, from whom it passed to the 

 British, several notes are added by Captain Hawkes, in illustration 

 of the text. 



Referred to the Committee of Papers. 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society, and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society 

 held at the Club House, on Thursday, the 1*1 th March 1859, at 

 half-past 6 o'clock, p. m. 



present. 



Hon'ble Walter Elliot, Esq., Chairman. 



W. C. Maclean, Esq., m. d. J. D. Mayne, Esq. 



G. F. Fullerton, Esq. W. Hudleston, Esq., Secy. 



H. Nelson, Esq. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual Monthly State- 

 ment of the Society's Funds prepared up to the 17th Instant. 



Resolved, that the above Statement is satisfactory and be passed. 

 Ordered, that the thanks of the Society be conveyed to the Royal 

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