2$2 PLAN FOR VILLAGE LIBRARIES, &C. 
nation of useful knowledge. The following proposals 
appeared in the Worcester paper :— 
A PLAN FOR VILLAGE AND PARISH LIBRARIES. 
It is proposed to establish, in every village or parish in the king¬ 
dom, a small library, consisting chiefly of books of agriculture, his¬ 
tory, modern voyages and travels, and other subjects of rational in¬ 
struction and general utility. 
The funds for commencing and maintaining such a library, to be 
raised by a subscription of 5s. per quarter for three years, and of 
2s. 6d. per quarter afterwards. 
The resident clergyman, for the time being, to be president of the 
society, and a treasurer to be appointed annually from among the 
subscribers. 
The subscriptions to be received, the accounts to be kept, and 
the books to be circulated and registered by the parish clerk, or by 
the parish schoolmaster, who, besides having the use of the books for 
his own reading, is to be entitled to the fines. 
The books to be kept at the vestry room, at the house of the offi¬ 
ciating clergyman, or at any other convenient place, in a room w hich 
shall be accessible to the subscribers. 
Quarterly meetings to be held of the subscribers at the place 
where the books are kept, when new books are to be ordered, ac¬ 
counts stated, and regulations formed. 
No book to be kept for reading more than a month, under the 
forfeiture of Id. per day afterwards, and no magazine, review, 
or ^ pamphlet, to be kept more than five days under a similar 
penalty. 
The first object of such a society, should be to possess itself of the 
County Reports, and other books published by the Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, of Gregory’s Cyclopaedia, some of Arrowsmith’s Maps, Dick¬ 
son’s Agriculture, a System of Geography, Mavor’s Universal His¬ 
tory, Johnson’s Dictionary, and Hume and Belsham’s (the last re¬ 
vised edition) History of England. It should also begin to take in 
for periodical circulation, the Monthly Magazine, the Annals Of 
Agriculture, the Oxford Review, and the Journal of Modern Voy¬ 
ages and Travels. 
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