xviii Rules of the Asiatic Society. [[Jan. 1844. 



17. — A Committee of Papers shall be appointed, to consist of the President, Vice Presidents, 

 Secretary, and nine other Members to be elected annually, and any number no less than five, shall 

 be competent to form a Committee. 



18. — This Committee will select from the papers communicated to the Society, such as may 

 appear proper for publication, and superintend the printing of the Society's Transactions. 



19. — The Committee of Papers shall be authorized to draw upon the Treasurer for any sums 

 requisite to defray the expense of publishing the Translations, and an order signed by a Majority 

 of the Committee, will be a sufficient warrant to the Treasurer for paying the same. 



20. — The Committee of Papers is authorized to defray any small contingent expenses on account 

 of the Society which they may deem indispensable. 



21.— Every Subscribing Member of the Society, on application, shall be furnished with a copy 

 of such volumes of the Researches as may be published whilst he continues a Member, in return 

 for his contributions, without any further payment. 



22. — With a view to the more general circulation of the Asiatic Researches in India, the price of 

 the 12th and future volumes, to Non-subscribers, shall be fixed at a gold mohur, and if several 

 volumes of different years be purchased together, they shall be sold at 10 rupees each. 



23.— The Agents of the Society in England shall be desired to purchase, and forward for the 

 Society's Library, Books of Science and Oriental Literature, published in Europe, taking care 

 that those purchases at no time exceed the funds arising from the sale of the Society's publications. 



24.— The Committee of Papers shall be requested to furnish the Agents in Europe with such 

 further instructions as may appear requisite for their guidance in the selection of books proper to 

 be placed in the Library of the Society. 



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25. — The Library is open from 10 to 4 o'clock, between which hours, the Assistant Librarian is 

 to be in attendance every day, Sunday excepted. 



26. — None but the Members of the Society are allowed to borrow Books from the Society's 

 Library, and no book is to be lent out of Calcutta without especial permission from the Committee 

 of Papers. 



27. — Books are to be borrowed by written or personal application to the Secretary ; in»either case, 

 the person applying is to furnish a written receipt specifying the name of the work, and the time for 

 which it is borrowed, at the expiration of which he is to return the book borrowed, or renew his 

 application for an extended loan of it. 



28. — The receipts for the Books shall be filed, and a Record kept of the Books lent out, to whom, 

 and when lent out, and when returned. 



29. — A list of the Books in the Library*, and a Register of those lent out, are to be kept ready 

 for inspection. 



30. — All persons borrowing Books are to be answerable for their safe return, or are expected to 

 replace them if injured or lost. 



31. — The Librarian should be authorized to call in any work which is detained beyond the time 

 fixed by the preceding rule. 



32. — All works borrowed from the Library, should be returned once a year, viz. the first of October, 

 in order to enable the Librarian to have the most efficient control over them, and to report to the 

 Secretary on the state of the Library. 



33.— Valuable manuscripts should not be removed from the Library, and no work from the 

 Oriental division of the Library can be borrowed by Native gentlemen, not Members of the Society 

 without a special order of the Secretary. 



34. — All books being books of general or special reference in the various branches of Natural 

 History in the departments of the Zoological, Geological, and Mineralogical Curators, to be 

 understood by the Librarian to be Books of reference for the use of those officers, and as such, not 

 to be lent out of the Library. 



