1850.] and Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 489 



Provided the C03t does not exceed the amount stated, the Govern- 

 ment will take 150 copies of the Barometrical Sections proposed to be 

 published by the Committee of the Madras Literary Society. 



(True Extract.) 



(Signed) H. C. Montgomery, 



Chief Secretary. 

 To the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society 



and Auxiliary of the 'Royal Asiatic Society. 



No. 166. 



Public Department. 

 No. 166. 



Extract from the Minutes of C -nsultation. dated ISth February, 1551. 



"With reference to the concluding para, of Extract Minutes of Con- 

 sultation of the 29th Ultimo. No. 99. the Eight Honorable the Gover- 

 nor in Council observes that the Eeport on Travancore and Cochin 

 (not Tanjore as applied for by the Literary Society) would, appear to 

 be the Geographical and Statistical Memoir of the Survey of those 

 States executed under the Superintendence of Lieutenants Ward ani 

 Connor, and at present in the Office of the Chief Engineer. On the 

 completion of the copies now under preparation for transmission to 

 the Honorable the Court of Directors, the original will be sent to the 

 Committee of the Madras Literary Society for publication if suited to 

 their Journal. 



(True Extract.) 



(Signed) H. C. Montgomery, 



Chief Secretary. 

 To the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society 



ajid Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society . 



II. Resolved, — That these Extracts from Minutes of Consultation 

 be recorded. 



III. Resolved, — That the Subscribers to the Literary Society and to 

 the Madras Club who have intimated their intention of being present 

 at the dinner at the Club House after the General Meeting on the 25th 

 instant be immediately informed by a printed notice that they are at 

 liberty to bring with them as guests any Subscribers to the Club, pro- 

 vided they make known their intention to do so and the number of 

 their guests to any one of the Stewards before 12 o'clock (noon) on 

 Monday the 24th instant. 



(Signed) Edward Balfour, (Signed) J. J. Losh, 



Chairman. Secretary 31. L. S. §c. 



