1850.] and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



and 16,000 volumes, and as more are daily being added to them, we have 

 hardly sufficient room to hold them, and although for want of funds we 

 are at present unable to make more book cases, yet we may by and by 

 have the means to do so, but then we would have no place to keep. 

 Under such circumstances the Librarian respectfully begs to suggest to 

 the Committee the advisableness of their applying to Government for 

 the use of the two upstair rooms adjoining our Museum which are at 

 present unappropriated to any use. 



VI. Resolved, — That application be made to Government for the use of 

 the two rooms in question. 



Bead Memorandum from the Librarian with advertence to the 8th 

 Resolution of the last Annual General Meeting, and the 4th Resolution 

 of the Committee at their last Meeting respecting the proposed modifi- 

 cation of the rules applicable to Subscribers of the 3d Class. 



Memorandum. 



If the Rules applicable to Subscribers of the Third Class as now mo- 

 dified be adopted they would tend to defeat the objects contemplated 

 by the Committee, for it could hardly be expected that a writer or even a 

 manager or examiner who always feels a reluctancy to approach his em- 

 ployer would attempt to trouble him for a recommendation to be admit- 

 ted as a Third Class Subscriber. As present, with two exceptions, all the 

 Members of the Society of the 1st and 2d Classes consist of Gentlemen 

 of the Civil and Military Services and Merchants. Amongst the 8 third 

 Class Subscribers there is only but one East Indian, the other seven 

 being Gentlemen of the abovementioned services. If these seven Gen- 

 tlemen have not felt any objection to pay a deposit of 10 Rupees in 

 cash and a promissory note for another 10 Rupees it is impossible to sup- 

 pose that Natives could do so. The original Rules framed by the Chair- 

 man of the Committee are the same in principle as those in existence in 

 Bengal and the Cape, and why should not they hold good in Madras 

 also? 



VII. Resolve d, —That it appears to the Committee inexpedient that 

 the Rules respecting the term of admission of Subscribers of the 3d 

 Class should be altered without further experience of their working, and 

 that therefore the proposed modification be postponed. Also that Rule 

 XIII. modified as directed in the 6th Resolution of the Annual General 

 Meeting and the 4th Resolution at the last Meeting of the Committee 

 be inserted in the next reprint of the Society's Rules. 



VIII. Resolved,~-That a Sub-Committee of Papers be appointed, con- 

 sisting, ex-oflicio, of the Chairman, and Mr. Ouchterlony and Dr. Bal- 

 four, for the purpose of perusing and reporting upon papers which may 



