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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
14. — No stranger or non-member shall at any time be 
introduced to any meeting or lecture, nor can any stranger make 
use of the Library or Reading Room except in accordance 
with bye-laws or rules and regulations made or approved by 
the Board. 
15. — The Board will receive as gifts or as a deposit on loan 
objects of a kind suitable for exhibition in the Museum. 
16. — Objects given to the Institute shall be recorded in a 
book to be kept for that purpose by the Secretary and each gift 
shall be duly acknowledged. All articles given to the Museum 
shall form part of the general collection of the Institute and 
shall be subject to all rules and regulations made from time to 
time for the control, preservation and exhibition of the same. 
17. — Articles deposited on loan can only be received or 
removed subject to the regulations from time to time made in 
respect of such articles. 
18. — Persons depositing articles on loan must supply a 
detailed inventory of such articles and such inventory shall be 
filed by the Secretary. The condition of any articles shall where 
necessary be noted in such inventory. 
PART III. — Associates. 
19. The Board may admit as associates any persons they 
may think fit. Every such associate to pay annually the sum 
of ten shillings due in advance on the 24th May in each year, 
or if elected between 1st December and 1st May to pay five 
shillings for the intervening period ; and ten shillings annually 
thereafter. 
20. — Subject to the assent of the Board any number of 
associates may constitute themselves a separate branch or section 
of the Institute and have regular nights for meeting. They may 
also have the use of the building on special evenings, due con- 
^deration being paid to the objects of the Institute Lad to the 
claims of other branches or sections of the Institute. 
