1849.] 



and Auxiliary 'Royal Asiatic Society. 



369 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee^ of the Madras Literary 

 Society, held at the Club House on Saturday , the Wth March, 1848, 

 at 7 o'clock p. M. 



A general statement of the Society's accounts, for 1847, is laid on 

 the table. 



I. Besohed, — That this general statement of accounts be approved 

 and passed, and laid before the next Annual General Meeting of the 

 Subscribers ; which, according to the revised 13th E-ule, should be con- 

 vened as soon after this Meeting as convenient. Accordingly, Resolved, 

 further, that the President, Sir E. J. Gambier, be requested to name 

 some day in the present month for the Annual General Meeting, or 

 should he be unable to attend, that one of the Vice Presidents be asked 

 to fix a day for the Meeting and to preside at it. 



The Account Current of Messrs. Binny and Company with the Socie- 

 ty for 1847 is laid on the table, with the letter which accompanied it, 

 dated 3d February, 1848. 



II. Resolved, — That Messrs. Binny and Company be informed that 

 their Account Current has been examined and found correct, and that 

 it be laid before the General Annual Meeting. 



Eead letter from the Honorable D. Eliott, Esq., dated 21st Febru, 

 ary, 1848, intimating his acceptance of the office of Vice President to 

 the Society. 



III. Resolved, — That this letter be recorded. 



Head letter from Mr. Samuel Marcar forwarding, for the acceptance 



- BIbHographia Armeniaca," ^^^^ ^^^^^^5^' ^ P^^^^^ containing a book and 

 or a Catalogue Eaisonne of pamphlet as per margin. 



Generarobservations on Ar- I^- Resolved,— Tk^t the book and pam- 

 . menia. phlet be accepted, and that Mr. Marcar be 



thanked, on behalf of the Society, for his 



present to it. 



Eead letter from W. Middlemass, Esq., dated 21st February, 1848, 

 intimating his retirement from the Managing Committee, in conse- 

 quence of his immediate departure for Europe. 



V. Resolved, — That this letter be recorded. 



-^^^^Q Eead Memorandum from the Librarian re- 



Tbe business of the Society's questing, for reasons stated, that he may be 



Library being now much aUowed the aid of an Assistant, on a small 



augmented, the Librarian ' 



begs respectfully to bring monthly salary, and that the person who has 



the same to the notic^ of Htherto assisted him without remuneration 

 the Committee, and begs 



that an Assistant to him, may be appointed to the situation. 



