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CHAPTER YIII. 



OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



Section 1. A member of the Society shall be chosen at the 

 stated meeting on the third Friday of January in each year, 

 to be the librarian of the Society. Nominations for said 

 office shall be made at the first stated meeting in January, 

 and no person shall be voted for who has not been so nomi- 

 nated. 



2. The librarian shall have, under the direction of the proper 

 standing committees, the custody and care of the hall, and of 

 the books and papers belonging to the Society, which he shall 

 dispose and arrange in such manner as shall be judged most 

 convenient, and shall keep an arranged catalogue of them, with 

 the names of the donors. He shall assist the curators in their 

 charge of the cabinet. 



3. He shall attend at the library at every meeting of the 

 Society, and daily, excepting Sundays, from 10 a. m. to 1 p.m., 

 except when allowed leave of absence by the presiding officer 

 of the Society, and shall then, and at such other times as he 

 may think proper, lend out to any resident member of the 

 Society, who is not indebted to him for fines or forfeitures, any 

 books belonging to the library, except the last volumes and 

 loose numbers of periodical journals, and except recent dona- 

 tions made to the Society, which shall not be lent out ; taking 

 from each member borrowing a book an obligation, with a 

 sufficient penalty, to return the same uninjured, within one 

 month thereafter, subject to a fine of fifty cents at every stated 

 meeting that shall occur after the limited period before he 

 returns the book, and a forfeiture of double the value of the 

 book, or of the set of which it is one, if not returned in six 

 months after being borrowed. 



4". He shall levy and collect these fines and forfeitures, and 

 pay over the moneys thence arising to the treasurer, at the 

 end of his official year, in aid of the appropriation for the 

 library. 



