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By the Act of the 53d Geo. 111, Cap. 155, the East India Company was empowered to appropriate under certain conditions from the Territorial Revenue, the sum of a lac of Rupees annually “to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India.” It does not appear, however, that the government was enabled to act with special advertence to this permission until very lately; nevertheless, the encouragement of learning, though not systematically pursued, had not