1850.] 



and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



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" That the General Committee be requested to take measures for institut- 

 ing a series of re-unions of the Members of the Society, the same to be re- 

 stricted within the period of the cold season of the year, and the series to 

 consist of not fewer than four Meetings, but to be augmented, if circum- 

 stances will admit, to the number of six, and that it be a suggestion of this 

 Meeting to the Committee, that a central place be selected, at which to hold 

 the re-unions, that on every occasion some paper of value and interest be 

 selected to be read publicly, or that a Member, be engaged to deliver a lec- 

 ture on some subject connected with the pursuits of the Society; and that 

 the Members, and the public generally be encouraged to forward to these 

 assemblies, specimens of all discoveries, collections, and manufacturing 

 improvements, with an accompanying M.S. description of all particulars 

 connected with them that may be of interest." 



VII. Resolved, — That this Meeting approves of the proposed arrange- 

 ment, and that the Managing Committee be accordingly requested to take 

 the requisite steps for carrying it into effect. 



JS. B. Powell, Esq. submits to the Meeting his opinion that the second 

 of the rules applicable to Subscribers of the 3d class which requires each 

 Subscriber, before receiving books, to lodge a deposit of 20 Rupees with 

 the Librarian appears objectionable, and is understood to be so consi- 

 dered by parties of the classes for whose benefit the rules in question 

 were established, and suggests that the rule in question should be can- 

 celled, or modified so as to admit the recommendation of a Subscriber of 

 the 1st or 2d class as a substitute for the deposit now required. 



VIII. Resolved, — That this subject be referred to the Committee of 

 Management, who are authorized to revise the rule in question, so as, if 

 possible, to remove the objection adverted to by Mr. Powell. 



(Signed) Walter Elliot, (Signed) J. J. Losh, 



Chairman. Secretary M. L. S, fyc. 



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 5th June, 1849, at 7 o'clock, p. m. 



Present. 



Chairman. 

 Walter Elliot, Esq. 



Members* 



Major P. Anstruther, C. B.; Dr. E. G. Balfour; Dr. J. Kellie j 

 Dr. T. Key; Major T. T. Pears, C. B. ; Major F. A. Reid, C. B. j J, 

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



