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Essex Institute. 



LIBRARY OF FRAlSrCIS PEA.BODY. 



PRESENTEDBY 



MRS. MARTHA PEABODY. 



The Library Committee shall divide the books and other 

 articles belonging to the Library into three classes, namely: 

 (a) those which are not to be removed from the building; (b) 

 those which may be taken only by written permission of 

 three members of the committee; (c) those which may circu- 

 late under the following rules :— 



Members shall be entitled to take from the Library two 

 folio or quarto volumes, or four volumes of lesser fold, with 

 the plates belonging to the same, upon having them recorded 

 by the Librarian, or Assistant Librarian, and promising to 

 make good any damage they sustain, while in their posses- 

 sion, and to replace the same if lost, or pay a sum fixed by 

 the Library Committee. 



No person shall lend any book belonging to the Institute, 

 excepting to a member, under a penalty of one dollar for 

 each offence. 



The Library Committee may allow members to take more 

 than the allotted number of books upon a written applica- 

 tion, and may also permit other persons than members to use 

 the Library under such conditions as they may impose. 



No person shall detain any book longer than four weeks 

 from the Library, if notified that the same is wanted by an- 

 other member, under a penalty of five cents per day, and no 

 volume shall be detained longer than three months at one 

 time under the same penalty. 



The Librarian shall have power by order of the Library 

 Committee to call in any volume after it has been retained 

 by a member for ten days. 



On or before the first Wednesday in May, all books shall 

 be returned to the Library, and a penalty of five cents per 

 day shall be imposed for each volume detained. 



No book shall be allowed to circulate until one month after 

 its receipt. 



