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quiries and deliberations respecting the best means of improving it. 

 They have also been informed, that it was intended to commit to 

 them the duty of directing and superintending the conduct of such 

 measures as it might be deemed proper to adopt with reference to 

 that great object. Detailed instructions have also been given to them, 

 founded on the suggestions contained in the minute by Sir Thomas 

 Munro, and nearly in the terms of that minute. Mr. George Hyne 

 was appointed their Secretary, and a disbursement of Rupees 45,000 

 per annum authorized, inclusive of Rupees 6,000 per annum, and ex- 

 clusive of a donation of Rupees 3,000 in aid of the funds of the 

 Madras School-book Society, whose benevolent labours are warmly 

 eulogized, and a confident persuasion expressed that they will, by 

 furnishing good school-books, materially contribute to the attain- 

 ment of the end for which the Committee has been instituted. 



This Committee has forwarded one report to Government, under 

 date the 16th May 1826 (entered on the proceedings of the 26th 

 of that month,) stating that its members have assembled and made 

 the several preliminary arrangements necessary for the performance 

 of public business ; also that they had applied to the College Council 

 for teachers of the following languages, which they have obtained 

 at the following rates of addition to their present pay, should the Go- 

 vernment approve of it : 



Sanscrit per month, Rs. 70 



Arabic and Persian ,, 70 



Teloogoo „ 15 



Tamul n 15 



Canarese 15 



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They have also proposed that these teachers shall instruct 



20 Hindoos, at 15 Rupees 300 



20 Mahomedans, at 15 Rupees 300 



Making a total expenditure of per month 785 



Exclusive of an English teacher 300 



Total Rs.. 1,085 



The report of the Committee further states the death of Mr. Hyne, 

 their Secretary, to succeed whom the Government appointed Captain 



