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considerable progress lias been made, and the whole may be ex- 

 pected to be completed at no distant period. 



I have the honor to be, &c. &c. 



(Signed) Walter Elliot, 

 Fort St. George, 7 Chairman Lit. Socy. Committee. 



26th October, 1848- ) 



To Captain LosH, 



Secretary to the Literary Society. 



To The Chief Secretary to Government, 



Fort St. George. 



Sir, 



1. I have the honor, by desire of the Managing Committee of the 

 Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Eoyal Asiatic Society, 

 to acknowledge the receipt of your letter* 

 Public Depaitment. thcir address, dated 18th Instant, 1^0.945, 



and, in advertence to the subject thereof, to annex for the informa- 

 tion of the Eight Honorable the Governor in Council copy of a 

 ^ , ^ , letter* from their Chairman, from which it 



* Dated 26th October, 1848. -1111 



"WT.il be perceived that they have not yet been 

 able to ejSect the arrangement sanctioned by the Honorable the Court 

 of Directors in the 2d paragraph of their 



* Eecorded in Extract from the Mi- ^ ,~ , j. i ^ j m 



nutes of Consultation in the Public letter* to Government, dated 21st Decem- 



Department. 5th February. 1848, y^^^^ 1347^ '-^^ SUperseSsion of that made 



t Letter from the Secretary to the ^^^^^r thef authority of the Government 

 GoTernment of India, No 490, re- of India, dated 19th July, 1845, which lat- 



corded m Extract from Minutes 01 . . 



Consultation in the Public Depart- ter, consequently, remains undisturbed. 



ment, dated 15th August, 1845, m , , i 



No. 737. 2. ihe Committee propose, on the com- 



pletion of the examination and classifica- 

 tion of the manuscripts to submit a full and detailed report respecting 

 them, for the information of the Eight Honorable the Governor in Coun- 

 cil, and the Honorable the Court of Directors. 



I have the honor to be, &c. &c. 



(Signed) J. J. Losh, 

 Literary Society,College, ") Secretary M. L S. 8fc. 



Zlsi October, 1848. 3 



Eead letters from Messrs. Y/m. H. Allen and Co., dated 8th and 19th 

 September, 1848, the former admitting the despatch of books per De- 

 vonshire and the latter of books and periodicals per Steamer, 



