1850.] 



and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



149 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held at the 

 Club House, on Tuesday the 6th February, 1849, at 7 o'clock p. M. 



Present. 

 Chairman. 

 Walter Elliot, Esq. 



Members. 



C. P. Brown, Esq. ; Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart. ; E. H. William- 

 son, Esq., and Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



Public Department. 

 No. 57. 



Extract from the Minutes of Consul- 

 tation, dated lUh January, 1849. 

 Read the following letter from 

 the Accountant General. 



Fort St. George, 

 Accountant General's Office, 

 5th December, 1848. 

 No. 387. 



From 



T. V. Stonhouse, Esq. 



Accountant General. 



To 



J. F. Thomas, Esq. 



Chief Secretary to Govt. 

 Sir, —With reference to Extract 

 Min. of Consultation, No. 1058, dated 

 24th ultimo, requesting me to re- 

 port whether there are objections to 

 the measure proposed by the Com- 

 mittee of Management of the Mad- 

 ras Literary Society and Auxiliary 



of the Royal Asiatic Society, namely that Collectors and Paymasters at 

 the several out-stations be authorised to receive and transmit the pay- 

 ments on account of the Madras Journal of Literature and Science due 

 by Subscribers in the interior, I have the honor to state that there exists 

 no objection to Collectors and Paymasters being authorised to receive sub- 

 scriptions on account of the above Journal into their Treasury, and to 



Read Extract from Minutes of 

 Consultation in the Public Depart- 

 ment, dated 16tli January, 1849, 

 No. 57, and letter to Government 

 from the Accountant General there- 

 in referred to. 



I. Resoloed, — That measures be 

 immediately adopted to obtain pay- 

 ment of all sums due on account 

 of the Society's Journal by Sub- 

 scribers at out-stations, under the 

 arrangement now sanctioned by 

 Government, which, the Commit- 

 tee have no doubt, will answer the 

 desired purpose ; and enable them 

 to resume, and continue regularly 

 the publication of the Journal, 

 without the risk of eventual loss, 

 or even of serious inconvenience. 



