ANCELLED ELLER PRESENTED BY Henry, F. King; The Library Committee shall divide the books and other articles belonging to the Library into three classes, namely: (a) those which are not to be removed from the building; (b) those which may be taken from the halls only by written permission of three members of the committee, who shall take a receipt for the same and be responsible for their safe return; (c) those which may circulate under the following rules: Members shall be entitled to take from the Library one folio, or two quarto volumes, or four volumes of any lesser fold, with the plates belonging to the same, upon having them recorded by the Librarian, or Assistant Librarian, and promising to make good any damage they sustain, while in their possession, and to replace the same if lost, or pay the sum fixed by the Library Committee. No person shall lend any book belonging to the Institute, excepting to a member, under a penalty of one dollar for every such offence. The Library Committee may allow members to take morethan the allotted number of books upon a written application, and may also permit other persons than members to use the Library, under such conditions as they may impose. No person shall detain any book longer than four weeks from the time of its being taken from the Library, if notified that the same is wanted by another member, under a penalty of five cents per day, and no volume shall be detained longer than three months at one time under the same penalty. The Librarian shall have power by order of the Library Committee to call in any volume after it has been retained by a member for ten days. On or before the first Wednesday in May, all books shall be returned to the Library, and a penalty of five cents per day shall be imposed for each volume detained. Labels designating the class to which each book belongs shall be placed upon its cover. No book shall be allowed to circulate until one month after its reception. HAR BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-fifth day of May, A. D. 1826, and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Warren Colburn, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Arithmetic upon the Inductive Method of Instruction: being a Sequel to Intellectual Arithmetic. By Warren Colburn, A. M.” In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also an act, en titled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints' JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts |
