1850.] 



and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society, 409 



7. Besolved, that a communication be immediately made to the Ho- 

 norable the Court of Directors, of the views above expressed with a re- 

 quest that if they are approved by the Honorable Court sanction may 

 be given for the institution of the proposed Museum and the appoint- 

 ment of a Curator accordingly and for the subsidiary arrangements that 

 may be necessary in respect to accommodation, establishment, &c 



8. The Governor in Council considers a House capable of contain- 

 ing the Museum, Library, &c, and also affording a residence for the 

 Curator, might be hired at a moderate rate, and he desires the Eevenue 

 Board Department of Public Works to be good enough to make in- 

 quiries on the subject, reporting to Government the result, for consi- 

 deration when the commands of the Honorable Court shall be received 

 on the present reference. 



(A true Extract.) 



(Signed) H. C Montgomery, 



Secretary to Government. 



To the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 



Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



Bead Extract from Minutes of Consultation under date the 24th 

 July 1849, No. 575. 



The Secretary states that charge of the whole of the collection of 

 the Native Books and Manuscripts adverted to and of the establish- 

 ment maintained for their custody, was made over to the College 

 Eoard on the 30th ultimo, which circumstance was duly reported to 

 Government on the following day. 



III. Resolved,— That this Extract be recorded- 



Public Department. 

 No. 575. 



Extract from the Minutes of Consultation, dated 24th July 1349. 

 Bead the following letter from the Secretary to the Madras Literary 

 Society. 



(Here enter 19th July 1849.) 

 1. Ordered that a copy of the foregoing letter and of its enclosure be 

 transmitted to the Honorable Court, with reference to para. 8 of the 

 despatch No. 1, of 1849, and that the College Eoard be requested to take 

 charge of the whole of the collections of Native Books and Manuscripts 

 therein alluded to. 



