nual payment to be made on each fhare, on the firft Monday of May next, and from and after that time, shall be, and it is hereby, increased to the fum of two dollars, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized and inftructed, to demand and receive the fame from the Members, under the like penalties and forfeitures as are now in force for recovering the annual payments heretofore established.

At a meeting of the Directors, held the fixth of August, 1795, the following refelution was adopted, to wit:

Resolved, that every member, or other perfon, who fhall take out a book or books on hire, fhall pay, for the use of the Library, the following rates weekly: For Duodecimos and Octavos two fixteenths of a dollar, Quartos three fixteenths of a dollar, and Folios four fixteenths of a dollar, and no smaller fum, although the book may be returned within the week.

That for neglecting to return the book or books, so taken out on hire, within the times specified in the rules of the Company, they fhall pay to the Librarian, for the use aforefaid, two fixteenths of a dollar per week in addition to the hire.*

Extracted from the minutes,

BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Secretary!

At a meeting of the Directors held November 7, 1805, the following refolution was adopted, to wit:

Books belonging to this inftitution, having in several instances been obtained by printers, and taken to pieces for the purpose of enabling them to print new editions, and fuch practices being deemed inconfiftent with the purposes for which the Library has been established, Refolved, that in all

• For the further penalties fee the rules and regulations annexed, particularly the 3d and 4th.

future cases of a fimilar nature fuits fhall be brought against the parties tranfgreffing.

Extracted from the minutes,

BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Secretary.

At a meeting of the Directors, held October 2, 1806, the following refolution was adopted, to wit:

Refolved, that the gazettes or public newspapers belonging to this inftitution be annually valued by the labelling committee for the time being, and the faid valuation placed in the hands of the Librarian, and in cafe the fame or any part thereof be required by any counsel or attorney as evidence in the courts of justice, the person applying for the fame shall sign one of the notes usually taken for books borrowed of the Library, which note fhall be filled up in the fum at which the whole set of such papers, of which any volume or volumes are required, fhall have been last vaJued, and alfo that the fame shall be returned within one week from the time of borrowing the fame, and fifty cents per diem for each volume paid for its use on its being returned.

Extracted from the minutes,

BENJAMIN R. MORGAN, Secretary.

TO BE OBSERVED BY THE

LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA,

TH

HE Librarian fhall attend at the Library, every day (Sundays excepted) from two o'clock, P. M. until fun-fet. He fhall enter in the catalogue, kept at the library, fuch books may be purchased or added to the library; label and number the same, as well as all others from which the label or number may be torn off or defaced. He fhall also replace the books on the shelves, as they are brought in, as foon as he conveniently can, first having examined whether they are free from damage.

II. He fhall lend to any member,

One Folio for five,

One Quarto for three,
One Octavo, or

Two Duodecimos, for two

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Weeks,

and no greater number, unless on hire, or fo connected as to be otherwife ufelefs. Such perfons, however, who refide at the distance of feven miles or upwards, are permitted to have books one week longer than the above-mentioned times. For all books fo lent, he fhall take a note, payable to the Company, for double the value, as nigh as he can eftimate, of the book or set of books to which they belong, conditioned to return the fame, undefaced, within the time above mentioned; at the expiration of which (unless application has been made by another member for the fame books, and the Librarian requested to take a memorandum thereof,) the borrower may, on producing the book to the Librarian, renew his note for the like time.

III. Every person, not being a member, who shall hire a book, &c. fhall firft give a note for double the value thereof, in the fame manner, and be subject to the fame regulations, as a member; and shall also depofite, as security, in the hands of the Librarian, double the value of such book or books; but if the book or books fhould belong to a fet, then fuch perfon fhall depofite treble the value of the volume or volumes which he fhall fo take out.

IV. Every member, or other person, who shall take out a book or books on hire, fhall pay, for the use of the library, the following rates, weekly: For Duodecimos and Octavos two fixteenths of a dollar, Quartos three fixteenths of a dollar, and Folios four fixteenths of a dollar, and no smaller fum, although the book may be returned within the week.

V. Every member, or other person, who fhall neglect to return the book or books, within the time specified in the second rule, shall, for fuch neglect, pay to the Librarian, for the ufe of the library, (befides the hire, where the book is not taken out by virtue of a share,) two sixteenths of a dollar per week: and if not returned, undefaced, within one month from the expiration of the time limited in the note, the fines and hire accruing thereupon fhall be doubled; and if not fo returned within three months from the fame period, the note or depofite money shall be forfeited to the company.

VI. Books returned are to be delivered into the hands of the Librarian, to be examined whether damaged or not.

VII. No perfon from whom any hire or forfeiture is due, or who hath damaged any book, shall be permitted to have another book till fatisfaction be made.

VIII. If a member, and one who is not a member, fhould apply for the fame book at the same time, the member shall have the preference.

IX. A member may take out on hire, without a depofite, as many books in value for which his share in the library fhall, by the Librarian, be deemed a fufficient fecurity, on the same terms, in other respects, as perfons who are not members.

X. The Librarian shall furnish the Directors, at each monthly meeting, with an account of the fines and forfeitures which have accrued during the preceding month.

XI. The Librarian is to conform to the instructions of the Directors with regard to fuch books as, from their scarcity and value, are to be let out only on certain conditions, or not at all.

XII. No perfon, whether a member or not, is to lend the book or books he borrows to any perfon out of his dwelling-house.

XIII. No book fhall be lent on the fhare of a deceased member, unless the note be figned by all the executors or administrators of such deceased member, or by fome one of them, appointed and authorized by written orders of the others.

A LIST

OF THE

MEMBERS

OF THE

LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA.

JULY, 1807.