13G -Rules for tlie Lih'ary. [JuxE, 



The Council reported that the following rules had been drawn up for 

 the management of the Society's Library. 



Bides for the Library, Asiatic Society. 



1. The Librarian shall keep a register of books belonging to the Li- 

 brary, showing their registered number, title, name of author, date of receipt, 

 whence obtained, price if -purchased, edition, size, number of volumes, num- 

 ber of plates, place and date of publication. 



2. All books, pamphlets and periodicals received for the Library, shall 

 immediately on receipt, be entered in the Library Register, and stamped 

 with the Library stamp, the registered number and date of receipt being 

 written in the centre of the stamp. The Librarian shall see that each plate 

 and map in books received for the Library is carefully stamped on the reverse 

 side with the Library stamp. New books received shall be stamped on the 

 cover with the words ' Asiatic Society of Bengal.^ 



3. A book shall be kept, in which shall be entered the title of every 

 work lent out, the number of plates, if any, it contains at the time of being 

 lent, the name of the member borrowing the same, and the date on which 

 it is lent. A member applying in person for a work sliall sign a receipt for 

 the book and plates it may contain, at the time of borrowing. A member 

 not applying in person shall send a written request for the books he re- 

 quires, and this request shall be filed in the Library, as a voucher, the 

 Librarian duly noting on it the books actually lent out. The Librarian 

 shall send with each packet of books, a form of receipt, to be signed and 

 returned by the borrower. Should any member prefer to keep a private 

 register of books borrowed from the Library, it shall be the duty of the 

 Librarian to enter in such register the names of all books issued and to 

 initial their receipt when returned. 



4. On return of any book to the Library, the Librarian, after satisfy- 

 ing himself that the book is in the same condition as it was when lent out, 

 shall insert opposite to the entry, in the loan register, the date on which the 

 book has been returned, and return to the bor¥ower the receipt, or other 

 voucher given by him, duly cancelled. And if on the return of any book 

 the Librarian shall perceive that it has sustained any damage, since it was 

 taken from the Library, he shall make a note of the particulars and report 

 the same to the Secretary. 



5. No member shall remove any book, pamphlet, periodical, or any 

 other article, the property of the Society, from the Library or Reading- 

 rooms without giving the Librarian a receipt for the same. 



6. No Book, Pamphlet, Journal, or Periodical &c. shall be lent out 

 before the expiration of one month after its receipt in the Library. 



7. Periodicals aud unbound Journals in numbers shall be returned 

 after the expiration of one week. 



