1850.] 



and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



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and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, to pay up a sum of Rupees 

 110, stated to be due by me since 1829, I beg to inform you that for 

 sixteen years prior to the receipt of your first letter in 1846 I had been 

 under the impression that I had ceased to be a Member of those Socie- 

 ties, under the operation of a rule which excluded from all participa- 

 tion in their benefits any Member who should fail to pay his subscrip- 

 tion for three successive quarters ; to which rule I had in 1830 rendered 

 myself amenable. For seven years subsequent to that in which the 

 alleged debt now demanded became due, or from 1830 to 1837, and 

 again from 1840 to 1842 — I was residing in Madras avowedly not a mem- 

 ber of the Societies in question, and never during either period called 

 upon for subscription. It is scarcely reasonable therefore to expect 

 that at this distance of time, and under the circumstances now ex- 

 plained, I should be considered liable for a claim, which if former 

 Committees and Secretary had been half as zealous as the present in 

 the discharge of their duties, would not have been found upon the 

 books of the Societies when you assumed charge of their affairs. 



(Signed) R. T. Poeter. 



IV. Resolved,— That Lieut. Colonel Poole and Mr. Porter, be inform- 

 ed that the Committee sees no reason to change its opinion respecting 

 their respective debts to the Society, and trusts that the amount will be 

 paid without further delay. 



V. Resolved, — With reference to Rule IX. that Majors Balfour and 

 Garstin be requested to become Members of the Committee of Manage- 

 ment vice Lieut. CoL Pratt, C. B., and Lieut. Col. Reid, C. R., whose 

 absence from the Presidency on duty is likely to be protracted beyond 

 the next General Meeting of Subscribers in February next, at which 

 the Committee must be re-elected or changed. 



Read Memorandum of Subscriptions for !Nos. 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36, 

 of the Society's Journal received in August, 1850, and of amount still 

 due for the same numbers and JNTos. 30 and 31, Memorandum of amount 

 due by the Society to Messrs. Allen and Co. for Books, &c. received 

 from them, and Memorandum of two Third Class Subscribers who join- 

 ed the Society in August, 1850. 



Memorandum. 



Subscriptions due for No. 30, of the Society's Journal, . Rs. 29 0 0 



Do. do. No. 31, 25 0 0 



Do. do. No. 32, „ 109 0 0 



Do. realized in August, 1850 . „ 2 0 0 



Balance Rups. . 107 0 0 



