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Rh Society, were framed, and a provisional Committee appointed to take measures for making it known, to procure it the pecuniary support all classes of the community, and the aid of the labors and advice of learned men, both at the Presidency and in the provinces. The report of the provisional Committee having been received, the School Book Society was finally organized and established on the 1st of July 1817. The following are the rules of the Society.

1.— an association be formed, to be denominated “The Calcutta School-Book Society.”

2.— the objects of this Society be the preparation, publication, and cheap or gratuitous supply of works useful in Schools and Seminaries of learning.

3.— it form no part of the design of this Institution, to furnish religious Books a restriction, however, very far from being meant to preclude the supply of moral tracts, or books of moral tendency, which, without interfering with the religious sentiments of any person, may