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on a small pay, may be VI. Resolved, — That as the services of an 



granted. As tlie Stock of . . , , -p -i • ^ • ^ 



the Library increases an- Assistant Librarian appear ODviously neces- 



luially it M-"ill be obvious to sary, the request of the Librarian be com- 



the Coimnittee that the i 



business also increases. pJ^iGa \\ itn. 



About two or three hun- rpj^^ Assistant is fixed at Ru- 



(U'ed volmncs are daily ^ 



being issued from the Li- pees fifteen per mensem, and his employ- 

 brary, and the Librarian, ^^^^ commence on the 1st proximo. 



under such circumstances, *^ 

 begs that a person may bo 

 appointed solely for this 

 business, while he will have 

 to conduct the rest of the 

 business, namely, to keep 

 the accounts of the Society, 

 carry on the correspondence 

 with the Subscribers, attend 

 upon those who visit the 

 Library, superintend the 

 book-binding department, 

 &c. &c. Should the Com- 

 mittee have no objection, 

 the Librarian begs he may 

 be permitted — in the event 

 of this request being com- 

 plied with — to entertain the 

 party who has hitherto as- 

 sisted him in business. 



Read letter' from the Officiating Chief Secretary to Government, 

 dated 8th Tebruary, 1848, transmitting for the use of the Society, copy 

 of the YII. volume of the Madras Astronomical Observations. 



VII. Resolved, — That the book in question be deposited in the 

 Library. 



Read letter from the Librarian Calcutta Public Library, dated 28th 

 January, 1848, acknowledging receipt of 28 numbers of the Society's 

 Journal, offering the grateful acknowledgments of the Curators for the 

 kind and useful donation, and forwarding a catalogue of the Calcutta 

 Library for the acceptance of the Society. 



YIII. Resolved, — That the letter be recorded, and that the catalogue 

 which accompanied it be laid on the Library table. 



Copy of the bill for printing 350 copies of (JN'o. 32) the Madras 

 Journal of Literature and Science presented for payment by the Super- 

 intendent of the Christian Knowledge Society's Press, is laid on the 

 table. 



IX. Resolved, — That this bill amounting to Rupees 480-4-10, be dis- 

 charged, and that the cost of pubhshing the Journal, and sums received 

 on account of it, be included in the regular accounts of the Society. 



^EMo. Read Memorandum, from the Libra- 



SodSy ''(vide^'cILto'^g^ fssT requesting instructions as to whe- 



Eule xii.) when a Subscriber at the ther Gentlemen who liave, at some for- 



