Note 1 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
“The Right Honourable the Governor-General in Council was pleased to authorise an allowance of 50 rupees a month to the Hungarian student in June 1827 for the prosecution of his Tibetan researches. On his arrival in Calcutta this allowance was increased1 to 100 rupees, with an anticipation of its continuance at that rate for two years, after which a report was to be made of the progress of his labours.