1850,] and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. £55 



1. Resolved,— That this General Statement of accounts be approved 

 and passed, with the account current of Messrs. Binny and Company, and 

 the letter containing the Statement of the account of Messrs. Allen and 

 Co., for the past year, be laid before the next Annual General Meeting 

 of the Subscribers; which, according to the 13th rule, should be conven- 

 ed as soon after this Meeting as convenient. 



Accordingly, resolved further, that the President, Sir E. J. Gambier, 



be requested to name some day in the present month for the Annual 



General Meeting, or, should he be unable to attend, that one of the Vice 



Presidents, be asked to fix a day for the Meeting and to preside at it. 



Public Department. Read Extract from Minutes of 



2f Q l52 . Consultation in the Public Depart- 



, \ n J7 n/r .' . /. n ment, dated 22d February 1849, 

 Extract from the Minutes of Con- ' ( 1 



saltation, dated 22d Feb. 1849. No ' 152> 



_ , - j, „ . , , II. Resolved— That this docu- 



Read the following letter from ' 



, o tX lV/ r i t • . ment be recorded lor the further 



the Secretary to the Madras Lite- 



o i v -r *• ii guidance of the Committee, 



rary Society and Auxiliary of the & 



Royal Asiatic Society. 



Here enter 31st January, 1849. 

 Para. 1. The Right Honorable the Governor in Council has read with 

 much interest the paper submitted with the foregoing letter, and consi- 

 dering the subjects of inquiry therein indicated to be most deserving of 

 attention, will be prepared to afford every facility in his power to carry 

 on the proposed preliminary investigations. 



2. He is, however of opinion that the Authorities, to whom it is pro- 

 posed to furnish the Circular annexed to the letter above recorded, 

 might send in their replies direct to the Committee of the Madras Li- 

 terary Society and receive from that Body such suggestions as they may- 

 see fit to offer for adoption in futherance of the objects contemplated. 

 It is resolved, therefore, that two hundred Copies of the Circular, as 

 marked in red ink and of the List A to which it refers be struck off at 

 the Government Press, and that three copies of the same be sent through 

 the Revenue Board to each of the Collectors in the Provinces and two 

 copies to each of the Civil Engineers of the Eight Divisions. Also, 

 that copies of the Circular and List be forwarded to the officers noted in 



the margin, to the Governments of 



Resident at Hyderabad, C .°. P Six India, Bengal, Bombay and the North 



Do. at Travancore, Six w gt p rov i nces an d to the Honorable 



Commissioner in Mysore, Twelve 



Do, inKurnool, .....Two the Court of Directors. 



(A true Extract.) (Signed) J. F. Thomas, 



Chief Secretary. 



To the Committee of the Madras Literary Society 



and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, 



