RULES AND REGULATIONS

OF THE LIBRARY.

I. THAT the Library open daily at Ten o'clock in the Morning until Five o'clock in the Afternoon, (Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas-day, and Fast and Thanksgiving days by Proclamation, excepted).

II. That the Library be closed during the month of August, and from the 6th to the 12th of November, both inclusive.

III. That every Member of the Corporation has the right of personal admission into the Library, and the privilege of introducing a Visitor, either personally or by letter.

IV. That the name of every Visitor, with the name of the Member by whom he is introduced, be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose.

V. That the printed books and manuscripts, prints, maps, and drawings belonging to the Library be under the custody and care of the Librarian, who shall carefully examine the same by the Cata

logues, at least once in every year, and lay before the Library Committee a Report in writing of the actual state of the Library.

VI. That a Catalogue be kept in the Library, for the use of persons frequenting the same.

VII. That no person have more than two printed books or manuscripts at the same time.

VIII. That persons may take one or more extracts from any printed book or manuscript; but the whole or greater part of a manuscript is not to be transcribed without a particular leave from the Library Committee.

IX. That persons are not to lay the paper on which they write on any part of the printed book or manuscript they are using, nor are any tracings to be taken without a particular permission from the Library Committee.

X. That no person is on any pretence to write on any part of a printed book or manuscript, but if any person shall observe a defect in any printed book or manuscript, he is requested to signify the same to the Librarian.

XI. That every person return the books he has been using to the Librarian, who shall carefully examine the same before they are put away in their proper places.