SeleS: Communications from i-arioiis Book-Sociedes. 667 



at the expiration of every year fliall deliver 

 to the Society an account ot all fubfcriptiuiis 

 anJ fines received, what due, and how ex- 

 pended. 



5. No books fliall be purchafed by the So- 

 ciety, but fuch as are voted in by a majority 

 of the members prefent at the general meet- 

 ings, except pamphlets, (not exceeding five 

 fhillings value each, and not amounting in 

 tlie whole to more than one pound in every 

 quarter,) which the ftevvards (hall be at li- 

 bertv to order, upon being rccjuived lb to do 

 bv tour members i and no book ihall be ad- 

 mitted at the general meetings, unlefs the 

 member propofing the fame, or fome other 

 member prefent, can give a latisfattory ac- 

 count of the charadler and price of it. 



6". The books ihall be loclced up in cafes, 

 and be under the immediate care of a libra- 

 rian, by whom they (IkiU be dL-Hvcvcd to the 

 members, whether for the purpofe of readinj^ 

 in the room, or of tal^in^ them home, and to 

 whom they fhall be returned. Tlie librarian 

 ihall keep a book, in which fliall be entered 

 the titlq of every work delivered, the name 

 ef the member to whom delivered, the time 

 when taken away, the nun-iber ot days to be 

 kept, when returned to tlie library, and the 

 Jbrfeit (if any) incurred. 



7. The members ihall have accefs to the 

 library every day, Sundays excepted, fnim ten 

 o'clock in the morning till nine o'clock in the 

 evening ; and on Sundays, for the purpofe 

 of reading the newfpapcrs only, from twelve 

 o'clock till half paft t.'.o. 



a. Ladies iTjall be admitted members of this 

 Society fo far as to be entitled to the ufc of 

 ihe books, fubjcft to a b^illot in the manner 

 fpecified in the M rule, and lo all other rules 

 and regulations now in exilicnce for the go- 

 vernment or this Society ; and when .ndmitted 

 ftiall pay half-a-guinea, and one quarter's fub- 

 foription, after the rate o; a guinea per year, 

 and fliall afterwards pay the like fuhfcri|ition 

 ojarti'rly J but no lady fo admitted fliall be 

 entitled to any projierty in the library, or to 

 tfie ufe ot the nev4'paper3, or the room, tjut 

 upon the tt-rms prekribed in the 3d articb of 

 the Uecbration of Property. 



i). Every member who kei^s a book beyond 

 the time Ipccitied on tlic cover, fliall pay fix- 

 yence a u-iv till it is leturncd; whoever lends 

 u book iTiall forfeit one fliilling, and make 

 good any lofi or damage j and whoever takes 

 more than on': book at a time from the li- 

 "kiary, fliall Ibrfeit one fliillirg and litpcncc. 



10. All Ibr.eitures fhall be appropriated lo 

 the funds of the Society. 



11. At the January meeting, fuch books as 

 a majority of the members then prefent fliall 

 determine to part with, fliall be difpofed of by 

 private file, to the members only j and the 

 money .irifmg by fuch fale fliall be appropri- 

 ated to the funds of the Society. 



li;. \:cmhcrs applying at tiie library for 

 kcwks then in ufe, (luli be ettUil;d to the 



preference in rotation when the books are 

 returned, provided they infert tlieir names in 

 a book to be kepi by the librarian for that 

 purpofe, and refpeiftively "Pply fo^ them vvithin 

 one (lay after their return. 



13. A member defirous of keeping a book 

 longer than the time fpecilied on the cover, 

 fliall be at liberty, if returned in due time, 

 to renew it for a fecond term, provided no 

 other member has applied for it ; but neither 

 Review nor Magazine iTiall be fo t.iken ouC 

 for a fecond term. 



I'll. If any member ihall happen to lofe a. 

 book, he or flie fliall give notice of fuch lofa 

 at or before the expiration of the term for 

 which it was taken, to the librarian, or to 

 the llevvards, and fli.ill at the fame time pay 

 tlie value of the book if a fingle volume, or 

 of the fet if it be one of a let, and forfeit two 

 fliillings and fixpence ; and if fuch member 

 fliall negleiS to give nnti.:e of the lofs, at or 

 before the expiration of the term, he or ilic 

 fliall pay the value of the volume or fet, and 

 forfeit one guinea. 



15. Members having occafionto leave Ponle 

 for more than fix months, fliall be at liberty 

 to continue members of the Society, upon 

 paying two Ihillinjs per quarter during their 

 ablijoce, provided fucii payment be m.ide to 

 the fliK'.vards on or before the firfl: meeting 

 after their return to Poole ; but no member, 

 or his family, ihall be entitled to the ufe of 

 the books during his abfencc, unlefs the full 

 fublcription b^ regularly paid. 



l(j. Members uho neglecl to pay their fub- 

 fcriptions and fines at any meeting, (hall have 

 notice glien them of the fame, fav the llew- 

 ards, fourteen davi before the next meeting ; 

 and in cafe they ihall neglett to pay the fame 

 to the irewards, at or before fuch fecond 

 meeting, the\ jhal! from fuch fecond meet- 

 ing ceafe to be members of the Society, and 

 lofe all the privileges and benefits of it; and 

 ihall, if proprietors, forfeit all fharc in the 

 property of the Society. 



Jun.T, 1806. T. Park, 



T. Bristo'.ve, 7 _ 

 ■' - ' ^ Stew 



ards. 



At a Meeting of the Suicty, held on Tucj.lts, 

 OftoLir 1, 1 805, 



Refulvud, That the following Plan, fub- 

 mittcd by the Committee appointed to take 

 into conli'leration the propriety of fettling the 

 property of the Society, be adopted ; and that 

 the fame be added to the Rules and Regula- 

 tions, and do become a part of the coniliiutjon 

 ol this Society ; and that the prefent men - 

 bcrs, and all who fliall hcrcal'ter be admitted 

 members, fhall lubfcribc a declaration figni- 

 fying [heir confeiit thereto. 



1. The property is declared to be, and is 

 veft;ed in thoft- members who iiavc been a<^- 

 mittcd fit^ca years and upwards. 



C. 'I'holc members who have not been ad- 

 mitted fevrn y.-ars, and all who (hall hereafter 

 be admitted ;r;'jmbcrs, Ihiil become proprict. is 



