system of its organisation was fully understood, a slight degree of 

 disorder and irregularity was perceptible. Individuals came 

 direct from their occupations, with unwashed hands and negligent 

 attire. To leave no excuse for this conduct, the Committee 

 provided lavatories, which were for a time useful, and answered 

 their purpose. The necessity for them has now almost entirely 

 passed away. The frequenters of the Library having become 

 fully aware that the regulations are calculated to promote the 

 comfort of the readers, cheerfully and cordially co-operate with 

 the officers to this end. In the most crowded state of the rooms 

 the utmost order and silence are preserved. No instance of wilful 

 defacement or injury to any book has occurred. Two small 

 volumes of trifling value, have alone been abstracted, which, out 

 of an issue of 128,000, may be looked upon as a remarkable and 

 pleasing fact. 



The Committee cannot but feel that the results of the past 

 year give every encouragement both to increase the resources of 

 the library abeady opened, and to extend the field of usefulness 

 collaterally as far as practicable. Out of the duplicate and imper- 

 fect copies of works in stock, 400 volumes have been granted to 

 assist in forming a library in the Borough Gaol, under the manage- 

 ment of the chaplain, the Rev. Thos, Carter ; and 600 volumes 

 have been presented to the juvenile libraries at the North and 

 South Corporation Schools. 



In the report at the commencement of the year, the Committee 

 expressed their desire to establish at the earliest possible period 

 one or more lending libraries. This has now been successfully 

 accomplished. Two Libraries have been prepared, one at the 

 North and the other at the South Corporation School, which will 

 be open two evenings in the week for the issue of books, under 

 proper regulations. Each of these Libraries contains at present 

 1,000 volumes. A portion of these are duplicates from the 

 Central Library. The remainder have been purchased at an 

 expenditui-e of about £200. 



