LAWS. 
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26. The Council shall meet, by three days' notice, on the first 
Monday of every month, and at snch other times as may be found 
desirable. Any special business to be transacted shall be mentioned 
in the notice convening the meeting. 
27. The Council shall continue in office until it shall have con- 
veyed its trust to its successors, together with all inventories, 
books, &c, at the annual meeting of the Society. 
28. The Council shall have the power of making any private 
regulations consistent with these laws, and may sell or exchange 
any duplicates or superfluous articles. 
29. The Council, at its discretion, may set apart certain evenings 
for the discussion of miscellaneous subjects, or for original papers 
and communications. 
LIBEAEY. 
30. The circulation of books is confined to Lecturing Members 
and Associates, subject to regulations adopted by the Council. 
31. ~No periodical publication shall be taken from the Athenaeum 
until the volume of which it forms a part is bound. 
32. Members and Associates taking books from the Library must 
enter them at the time of the taking and return in a book kept for 
that purpose, the Society trusting to the honour of Members and 
Associates for so doing. 
33. The Curator shall, on the application of any Member who 
in preparing a paper may require a book in circulation, have power 
to recall it for his use. 
34. The Curator, with the sanction of the Council, is to order 
any books to be bound when necessary ; he is also required to 
inspect the condition of the books annually, for which purpose 
all books shall be returned, and the Library closed from 20th 
of March to 1st April. 
35. Members or Associates retaining a book after notice from the 
Curator, under the circumstances above specified, shall incur a fine 
of sixpence per day until it is returned. 
