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Proceedings of the Mad. Lit. Society, [No. 37, 



Public Department. 

 No. 190. 



Extract from the Minutes of Con- 

 sultation, dated 3d March, 1849. 

 Read the following letter from 



Read Extract from Minutes of Con- 

 sultation in the Public Depart- 

 ment, No. 190, dated od March, 

 1849. 



I. Resohed,— That Government 

 be informed that the Committee are 

 of opinion that it would not be de- 

 sirable that the whole 



Here enter 17th 



Feb. 1849. or selections from 

 Mr. Hunter's paper 

 should be published in the Socie- 

 ty's Journal of Literature and Sci- 

 ence. 



A. Hunter, Esq., Zillah Surgeon of 

 Chingleput. 



Submits a copy of the communi- 

 cations addressed by him to the 

 Athenccum newspaper on the sub- 

 ject of the Resources of India and 

 amusement for idle hours, and that 

 should the same meet the approval 

 of Government he will continue 

 them in the form of Periodical 

 Reports. 



Resolved, — That the paper received with the foregoing letter be for- 

 warded to the Committee of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary 

 Royal Asiatic Society, and a request that they will favor the Government 

 with their opinion whether it would be desirable that the whole or selec- 

 tions from Mr. Hunter's paper should be published in their Journal of Lite- 

 rature and Science. 



(True Extract) (Signed) J. F. Thomas, Chief Secretary. 

 To the Committee of the Madras Literary Society 



and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



Public Department. 

 No. 388. 

 Extract from the Minutes of Con- 

 sultation, dated 15th May, 1849. 

 From the letter from the Secre- 

 tary to the Madras Literary Society, 

 dated 25th September, 1847, theG-o- 

 vernment were led to believe that 

 Subscribers to this Journal would 

 be charged two Rupees for each copy 

 and Bills at this rate for thirty co- 

 pies taken by Government were ac- 

 cordingly presented for sanction on 

 the dates given in 



23d March 1848. „„.,•_ m, 



26th July 1848. tne maigm. Iney 



desire therefore to 



Read Extract from Minutes of Con- 

 sultation in the Public Department , 

 dated 15th May, 1849, No. 388. 

 II. Resohed, — That Government 

 be informed that the numbers of 

 the Society's Journal are charged 

 for at little above prime cost, and 

 that, as the last published number 

 contains more than the average 

 number of pages, an addition of 

 eight annas was necessarily made 

 to the price, to meet the printer's 

 additional charge. 



