566 Statutes of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
8. Books may be kept out three. calendar months, and no longer ; and 
every person shall be subjected to a fine of twenty cents a week for every 
volume retained beyond that time. 
4. Every person, who takes a book from the Library, shall give a receipt 
for the same to the Librarian or his assistant. 
5. Every book shall be returned in good order, regard being had to the 
necessary wear of the book with good usage. And if any book shall be lost 
or injured, the person to whom it stands charged shall replace it by a new 
volume or set, if it belong to a set, or pay the current price of the volume or 
set to the Librarian; and thereupon the remainder of the set, if the volume 
belonged to a set, shall be delivered to the person so paying for the same. 
6. All books shall be returned to the Library for examination, at least one 
week before the annual meeting. And every person then having one or more 
books and neglecting to return the same, as herein required, shall forfeit and 
pay a fine of one dollar. 
7. A committee on the Library, to consist of three persons, of whom the 
Librarian shall be one, shall be chosen at the annual meeting in May. This 
committee shall examine the Library, and make report of its condition at the 
next annual meeting. They shall have authority to purchase such books, from 
time to time, as they may deem expedient ; to make rules and regulations 
concerning the circulation, return, and safe keeping of the books; and to ap- 
point such agents for these purposes as they may think necessary. And for 
all these objects there shall annually be appropriated a proper sum, to be ex- 
pended under their direction, and the charges to be made either to the Rum- 
ford fund, or to that of the Academy, as the committee may direct. 
CHAPTER VI. 
Of Meetings. 
1. There shall be annually four stated meetings of the Academy, namely, 
on the last Wednesday in January, the day next preceding the last Wednes- 
day in May, the second Wednesday in August, and the second Wednesday in 
November, to be held at the Hall of the Academy in Boston. 
