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186 drawn up agreeably to the instructions conveyed in your letter No. 3538, dated the 5th instant.

I beg leave to remark that it has long been in my contemplation to submit a report of the nature now furnished, but circumstances deterred me from such a step. I am now, however, happy to have an opportunity of carrying out my wishes, as a matter of duty, under the sanction of the CouucilCouncil [sic].

Under the present system, this Department consists of 5 Classes. The works studied are Mugdhabodha, Dhatupatha, Amarakosha and Bhatti Kavya; the 5th. Class studying seventeen pages of Mugdhabodha, the 4th Class 42 pages of the same work; the 3rd. Class 100 pages; the 2nd Class the remaining 90 pages of the same book together with Dhatupatha: and the 1st Class a few Books of Bhatti Kavya and a certain portion of Amarakosha. Four years is the prescribed period for