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VI. Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society and 

 Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



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

 terary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 held at the Club House, on Tuesday the 2d January, 1849, 

 at 7 o'clock p. m. 



Present. C. P. Brown, Esq. ; Major R. Garstin; Sir H. C. Mont- 

 gomery, Bart.; W. A. Morehead, Esq., and Captain J. J. Losh, 

 Secretary. 



~\f 4 m , Tn e Committee proceed to take into con - 



♦Extract from Minutes of Consul- , 



tation in the Public Depart- siaeration the subject of communications 

 SS^'JSJS^ : 1 ** ftom Government as per margin, • and a 



%if£m,$kJ2*S*> minute thereon ' drawn u p b >' their PW* 



man, which has been recently circulated. 



I. Resolved,— That the Committee concur in and adopt the views 

 of their Chairman, as set forth in his minute, dated the 3d October, 1848, 

 and that a copy of it be transmitted to Government, with a letter sug- 

 gesting that the course recommended in it be followed. 



Read letterf from Dr. A. Weber, Priva- 



+ Dated Berlin, 4th November, ^ docens of ^ Language at the 



Royal Society of Berlin. 



II. Resolved, — That the receipt of this letter be acknowledged, and 

 that Dr. Weber be informed, in reply, that, although the Government 

 Library of Sanscrit and other books is at present in the charge of the 

 Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society, yet as ihe Funds 

 of the Society are supplied by private subscription, and the Subscribers 

 are willing to purchase works in the European languages only, the Com- 

 mittee are precluded from subscribing to the valuable work in question. 

 Also that it be intimated to Dr, Weber that in the Government Library 

 abovementioned there are two manuscript copies of the Vedas, one in the 

 Malayalim character, and one in the Telugu character, with commenta- 

 ries, neither of which is used by any person. 



Read letters from Messrs. Wm. H. Allen and Co., dated 4th and ISth 

 November, 1848, the former advising the despatch of books per Ostrich, 

 and the latter of books and periodicals per Steamer. 



III. Resolved, — That the receipt of Messrs. Allen and Co.'s letters be 

 acknowledged, and that they be requested to send out the following 

 books for the use of the Society. 



