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At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Li- 

 terary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 held at* the Club House, on Tuesday, the 2d October, 1849, 

 at 7 o'clock p. m. 



Present. 



Chairman. 

 E. G. Balfoue, Esq. 



Members. 



Major P, Ansteutheb, C. B. J. Ouchteelony, Esq. 

 W- U. Arbuthnot, Esq. T- Pyceoft, Esq. 



Dr. J . Kellie, Major F. A. Eeid, C. B. 



Dr. T- Key, B. H. Williamson, Esq. and 



Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 

 Absent. 



Sir H- C. Montgomery, Bart. Major T. T. Peaes, C B, 



Eead letter from Messrs- Thacker and Co-, St. Andrew's Library 

 Calcutta, received and circulated since the last Meeting. 



To J. J. Losh, Esq., Secretary Literary Society, Madras. 

 Sir, — Eeferring to your letter of the 25th October, 1847, wherein you 

 requested us to transfer the cost of the five copies of the 4th vol. of the 

 Alif Leila supplied to the above Society to the account of the Eajah of 

 Mysore, we beg to state that we have applied to that gentleman for 

 payment no less than six times, and as all our applications have failed 

 to elicit even a reply, we have no other course to pursue than to 

 address you on the subject, and we feel confident that, as the books 

 were ordered by you for the Madras Literary Society, and even made 

 over by you without our sanction, to the Eajah, who is a perfect 

 stranger to us, that you will not suffer us to be losers by the trans- 

 action. 



We beg to hand you a statement of the account, and should you be 

 unable to obtain a draft on Calcutta, the amount may be paid to our 

 Agents, Messrs. Binny and Co., of your City, with the addition of 5 per 

 cent, to cover that Firm's Commission, postage and difference of ex- 

 change. 



(Signed) Thacker & Co. 

 St- Andbew's Libeary, Calcutta, Qlh Sept- 1849. 



