1849.] and Auxiliary Rotjal Asiatic Society. 571 



13. A General Meeting of the Society is held annually, as soon as 

 possible after the Society's accounts for the preceding year have been 

 closed and passed by the managing Committee, and statements of them 

 prepared for submission to the G-eneral Meeting. 



14. Under the 3rd and 4th Resolutions passed by the Anniversary 

 Meeting of the Eoyal Asiatic Society, held on the 14th March, 1829, 

 Members of both classes of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary 

 of the E-oyal Asiatic Society, while residing in Asia, are non-resident 

 Members of the Royal Asiatic Society, and when in Europe may be 

 elected resident Members, in the same manner that honorary Members 

 are elected ; and Members of the Eoyal Asiatic Society while residing 

 in Europe are non-resident Members of the Madras Literary Society 

 and Auxiliary of the Eoyal Asiatic Society, but when within the Presi- 

 dency of Madras may be elected resident Members, in the manner pre- 

 scribed by the regulations of the Madras Literary Society and Auxi- 

 liary of the E-oyal Asiatic Society. 



Eules for the Library of the Society, applicable to Members of the 

 Society subscribing in the 1st and 2nd classes, 



1. The Library is open to aU Members of the Society, who are en- 

 titled to the use of the stock books, and of the new pubhcations as they 

 are received from England, subject to the rules and regulations here- 

 after prescribed. 



2. A catalogue of the books in' the Library is printed when necessa- 

 ry, for the use of the resident Members. 



3. Any person who may lose or seriously injure a book is required 

 to pay for the whole work, at the price marked in the catalogue kept 

 at the Library. 



4. On the arrival of new books from England, a printed list of them 

 is furnished to each Member of the first class, the day on which the 

 circulation is to commence being notified thereon. 



5. Any such Members desirous of reading any of the books in the 

 list, is to send a note to that effect to the Librarian, not later than the 

 day previous to the day of circulation. 



6. The time limited for the reading of all new books is determined 

 by the Secretary, according to the nature of the work, and is marked 

 on the cover, and each Member is to return the book at the expiration 

 of the limited time, to the Library, when it will be forwarded to the 

 person whose name is next on the list and so on in rotation. 



7. The names of persons who are irregular in returning books to the 

 Library at the expiration of the time allowed for their perusal are to 

 be reported by the Librarian to the Committee, and their names put 

 at the bottom of the lists at the discretion of the latter. 



