ADMISSION INTO THE MUSEUM. 19 



year. In cases where there may be any doubt as chap.iii. 



• i • Reading 



to the propriety of admission, the applications shall Room, 

 be referred to the next Meeting of the Trustees. 

 Every reader may, at the expiration of his term, 

 apply for a prolongation of the same, without a 

 fresh recommendation. 



7. Persons who apply for admission to the 

 Reading Room, are to specify their descriptions 

 and places of abode ; it is expected that every one 

 who applies should produce a recommendation 

 satisfactory to a Trustee or an Officer of the 

 House. 



8. Readers are allowed to take extracts from Reg" 1 ^ 0 " 3 



as to Kead- 



any printed book or manuscript ; but no entire in s Rooni - 

 manuscript, nor any considerable portion of it, is 

 to be transcribed without leave from the Trustees. 

 Transcribers are not to lay the paper on which 

 they write on any part of the book or manuscript 

 which they are using. 



9. No person is, on any pretence whatever, to 

 write on any part of a printed book or manuscript 

 belonging to the Museum. The permission to 

 visit the Reading Room will be immediately with- 

 drawn from any person who infringes this rule ; 

 but if any one should observe a defect in such 

 book or manuscript, he is requested to signify the 

 same to the Superintendent of the Reading 

 Room. 



10. Persons engaged in works of learning, or 

 in the prosecution of any useful design, and having 

 occasion to examine any part of the Collection 

 with more attention than can be done in the ordi- 



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