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Proceedings of the Mad. Lit- Society 



[No. 38, 



in question, which appears not of much importance, as affecting the ap- 

 pearance of the volume, rather than its utility. 



Bead Extract from Minutes of Consultation in the Public Department 

 dated 1st March, 1551. 



Public Department. 

 No. 158. 



Extract from the Minutes of Consultation, dated 1st March, 1851. 

 Bead the following letter from the Under Secretary to the Government 

 of India. 



(Here enter 17th January, 1551.) 

 Forwards 5 copies of Lieut. Colonel Dixon's Sketch of the Mairwar- 

 ra, for such distribution as the Government of Madras may think fit to 

 order. 



Resolved, — That the five copies of the work referred to be distributed 

 as follows : — 



One to the Board of Revenue. 



One to the College Board. 



One to the Madras Literary Society. 



Two to be retained in the Government Office. 



(True Extract.) 



(Signed) H. C. Montgomery, 



Chief Secretary. 

 To the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society 



and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



III. Resolved, — That the copy of Lieutenant Colonel Dixon's Sketch 

 of the Mairwarra, received with this Extract from Minutes of Consul- 

 tation, be deposited in the Society's Library. 



Read Extract from Minutes of Consultation in the Marine Depart- 

 ment, dated 3d September, 1850. 



Marine Department. 

 No. 303. 



Extract from the Minutes of Consultation, dated 3c? September, 1850. 



The Right Honorable the Governor in Council proceeds to take into 

 consideration a Despatch from the Honorable the Court of Directors, 

 dated 10th July, No. 11 of 1850. 



Will forward by an early opportunity via the Cape of Good Hope for 

 distribution 25 copies of Geological Report on the Damoodah Valley, by 

 the late Mr. D. H. Williams, Geological Surveyor in India- 



