APRIL — SEPT. 1859.] 



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Proceedings of a Meeting of the Committee held on Wednesday, 

 1th September 1859. 



Present. 

 Sir Adam Bittleston, Vice Patron. 

 G. S. Hooper, Esq., President. 

 Colonel Reid, c. b. C. Dale, Esq. 



Colonel Simpson. H. B. Montgomery, Esq., m. d., 



J. Goolden, Esq. Secretary. 



Amir Ud Dowlah, Bahadoor, attended as a visitor. 

 In the absence of the Hon'ble Walter Elliot, Esq., Mr. Hooper 

 is elected President of the day. 



The Secretary intimates that on 12th ultimo, he forwarded to 

 the Revenue Board 50 copies of the Proceedings of the last meet- 

 ing, suggesting that they might with advantage be circulated to 

 the various Collectors in the Presidency, and re-published in the 

 several local Gazettes. 



Bead. — With reference to the foregoing the following 



No. 3206. 



Proceedings of the Board of Revenue, dated 16th August 1859. 



Read letter from the Secretary to the Agri-Horticultural Socie- 

 ty, Madras, dated 12th August 1859. 



(In Con. 12th August 1859, No. 4034.) 



The Board fully concur in the suggestion of the Committee of 

 the Horticultural Society, and resolve to forward the papers re- 

 ceived to the different Collectors with instructions to publish them 

 in several issues of their Gazettes, in the Vernaculars as well as 

 in English. 



2. The Board will be happy to give similar publicity to any 

 valuable papers with which the Committee may from time to time 

 favor them. 



(A True Extract.) 



(Signed) J. D. Sim, Secretary. 

 Read application from the Church Committee at Vepery re- 

 questing a collection of shrubs and plants for the Vepery and Pur- 

 sewakum Burial Ground. 



Resolved, that the foregoing be complied with without charge 

 as the purpose may be esteemed a public one. 



