xi. 



Members requiring more than two copies of the Journal, can be 

 supplied with them at half the price charged to the Public. 



20. Evening Meetings shall be held once a month, or at other 

 times as may be arranged, for discussion on papers read, or to be read 

 at General Meetings, (such papers however not necessarily being 

 before the Meeting,) the mutual improvement of the Members, and the 

 promotion of the objects and advancement of the interests of the Society. 



21. Members who have been absent from Ceylon, on their return 

 to the Island, have the privilege of rejoining the Society within 12 

 months of their arrival, on payment of the Subscription for the current 

 year. 



22. It shall be competent for any General Meeting to suspend 

 temporarily any of the above Rules. 



RULES OF THE LIBRARY, 



1. All Books borrowed from the Library shall be duly entered 

 in the Receipt Book, with the date of giving out, and the date of the 

 return, which latter shall be initialled by the Librarian. 



2. No book to be written on, or injured in any respect what- 

 soever, and every book borrowed shall be returned in proper condi- 

 tion, as received. 



3. The period for which books borrowed may be kept shall be 

 as follows 



[1.] Periodicals, and numbers or volumes of a series, while they 

 remain unbound, for 14 days only, and no more. 



[2.] Books and Periodicals must be returned at the end of the 

 month in which they were issued, to enable the Librarian to 



