682 Proceedings of the Mad. Lit. Society [No. SG, 



nal since tlic Meeting of the 5tli September, 1848, is laid on the 

 table. 



A^II. Besolved—Thdii this Memorandum be recorded. 

 (Signed) Walter Elliot, (Signed) J. J. LosH, 



Chairman. Secretary M. L. S. 8fc~ 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Literary 

 Society and Aua-iliary of the Boyal Asiatic Society, held at the 

 Club House, on Tuesday the 1th J^ovemler, 1848, at 7 o'clock 

 r. M, 



Present. 



Chairman. 

 Waltee Elliot, Esq. 



3Iemhers. 

 Lieut. Colonel O. Eelix, 

 Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart, 

 J. OrcHTEKLONY, Esq. 

 Lieut. Colonel T. S. Peatt, c. b. 

 E. H. Williamson, Esq., and 

 Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary, 



The Secretary having brought to the notice of the Meeting that 

 there are still much difficulty and delay in collecting sums due on ac- 

 count of the Society's Journal from Subscribers at out -stations, and 

 that the ari'angement which it was expected would be effected for 

 making the collections in question by the aid of the Post Office Wri- 

 ters has not been found practicable ; at the suggestion of the Chair- 

 man, it is 



I. Resolved, — That a letter. 

 To the Chief Secreiary to Government, . , , , 



./ ^ pgj, margm, be addressed to 



I have the honor, by desire of the Committee of Government, and in the event 

 AnSi^of the EovSSic^'Styf t^^eqiie'^t of a favorable answer being re- 

 you ^iU do them the favor to ascertam^ ceived, that the bills for each 



there -wtLI be any objection on the part oi the Go- ' 



vemment to authorize Collectors and Paymasters number of the Joumal be put 



at the seyeral out-stations to receive and transmit • i • t i 



the payments on account of the Madj-as Journal of Up and transmitted With the 



Literature and Science, due by Subscribers in the ., -.^ i i -n i 



interior. The trifling cost of each number of that publication itselt ; eacn bill be- 



publication renders the coUection of so many smaU • ^irpriflrpfl in tbp Tiflme of fhf 



sums in the ordinary manner a matter of great prepareu m ine name OI me 



difficulty, and as the Government have been pleas- nearest Collector Or Military 



ed to extend a large measure of their patronage to *' 



the Journal and to authorize the publication in it Paymaster, tO whom the Se- 



of papers connected with the public records, the , -n j. xi 



Committee trust that it may not be considered in- cretarv Will, at tQe Same time 



