418 Proceedings of the Mad. Lit. Society [No. 38, 



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

 rary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, held 

 at the Club House, on Tuesday, the 6th November, 1849, at 

 7 o'clock, P. M. 



Present. 



Chairman. 

 Edwaed Balfoue, Esq. 

 Members. 



Major P. Ansteuthee, C. B. Major T. T. Peaes, C. B. 



W. U. Aebuthnot, Esq. B- H. Williamson, Esq., and 



Dr. T. Key, Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



Absent. 



Dr. J. Kellie, J. Ouchteelont, Esq. 



Sir H. C. Montgomeet, Bart. T. Pyceoft, Esq. 



Lieut. Col. P. A. Reid, C. B. 

 Bead Extract from Minutes of Consultation in the Public Depart- 

 ment, No- 855, dated 1st November, 1849. 

 I. Besolved,— That this Extract be recorded. 



Public Department. 

 No. 855. 



Extract from the Minutes of Consultation, dated 1st November, 1849. 

 Bead the following letter from the Secretary to the Madras Literary 

 Society. 



(Here enter 22d October, 1849.) 

 Para. 1. Resolved,— That para. 1 of the foregoing letter be commu- 

 nicated to the Board of Revenue, who will be good enough to furnish 

 to the Committee of the Madras Literary Society the document applied 

 for, or a copy of it, for the purpose therein indicated. 



2. Resolved,— That the Government of India be requested to com- 

 ply, should there be no objection, with the application of the Commit- 

 tee for the Barometrical Sections required in the concluding paragraph. 



(A true Extract.) 



(Signed) J. F. Thomas, 



Chief Secretary. 



To the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 



Society, and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



Bead letter from Captain T. Hutton of the Bengal Army annexing 



