TO BE OBSERVED BY THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. HE Librarian fhall attend at the Library, every day (Sundays excepted) from two o'clock, P. M. until fun-fet. He shall enter in the catalogue, kept at the library, fuch books may be purchased or added to the library; label and number the fame, as well as all others from which the label or number may be torn off or defaced. He fhall also replace the books on the shelves, as they are brought in, as foon as he conveniently can, firft having examined whether they are free from damage. and no greater number, unless on hire, or fo connected as to be otherwife ufelefs. Such perfons, however, who refide at the distance of seven miles or upwards, are permitted to have books one week longer than the above-mentioned times. For all books fo lent, he fhall take a note, payable to the Company, for double the value, as nigh as he can estimate, of the book or fet of books to which they belong, conditioned to return the fame, undefaced, within the time above mentioned; at the expiration of which (unless application has been made by another member for the fame books, and the Librarian requested to take a memorandum thereof,) the borrower may, on producing the book to the Librarian, renew his note for the like time. III. Every perfon, not being a member, who fhall hire a book, &c. shall first give a note for double the value thereof, in the fame manner, and be fubject to the fame regulations, as a member; and shall also depofite, as security, in the hands of the Librarian, double the value of such book or books; but if the book or books fhould belong to a fet, then fuch perfon fhall depofite treble the value of the volume or volumes which he fhall fo take out. IV. Every member, or other person, who shall take out a book or books on hire, fhall pay, for the ufe of the library, the following rates, weekly: For Duodecimos and Octavos two fixteenths of a dollar, Quartos three: fixteenths of a dollar, and Folios four fixteenths of a dollar, and no fmaller fum, although the book may be returned within the week. V. Every member, or other perfon, who fhall neglect to return the book or books, within the time specified in the second rule, shall, for fuch neglect, pay to the Librarian, for the use of the library, (besides the hire, where the book is not taken out by virtue of a fhare,) two fixteenths of a dollar per week: and if not returned, undefaced, within one month from the expiration of the time limited in the note, the fines and hire accruing thereupon shall be doubled; and if not fo returned within three months from the fame period, the note or depofite money fhall be forfeited to the company. VI. Books returned are to be delivered into the hands of the Libra rian, to be examined whether damaged or not. VII. No perfon from whom any hire or forfeiture is due, or who hath damaged any book, fhall be permitted to have another book till fatisfaction be made. VIII. If a member, and one who is not a member, fhould apply for the fame book at the fame time, the member shall have the preference. IX. A member may take out an hire, without a depofite, as many books in value for which his fhare in the library fhall, by the Librarian, be deemed a fufficient fecurity, on the same terms, in other refpects, as perfons who are not members. X. The Librarian fhall furnish the Directors, at each monthly meeting, with an account of the fines and forfeitures which have accrued during the preceding month. XI. The Librarian is to conform to the inftructions of the Directors with regard to fuch books as, from their scarcity and value, are to be let out only on certain conditions, or not at all. XII. No perfon, whether a member or not, is to lend the book or books he borrows to any perfon out of his dwelling-house. XIII. No book fhall be lent on the share of a deceased member, unless the note be figned by all the executors or administrators of fuch deceased member, or by fome one of them, appointed and authorized by written orders of the others. A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 1 LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. JULY, 1807. Timothy Abbott, William Abbott, A. Joel Barlow, Cornelius Barnes's Estate, Mary Barton, Sarah Bartow, Moses Bartram, Archibald Bartram, Ann Bartram, Isaac Bartram's Estate Robert Bass's Estate, Jonathan Beere, Samuel Bettle, William S. Biddle, William M. Biddle, Thomas Biddle, Owen Biddle's Estate, William Bingham's Estate, Horace Binney, John Bishop, Robert Blackwell, Philip Boehm's Estate, Bohl Bohlen, Frederick Boller's Estate, Phineas Bond's Estate, Edward Bonsall, Elizabeth Bordley, Thomas Bradford, Robert Bridges, David Bush's Estate, Paul Busti, Anthony Butler, Andrew Byerly. C. Thomas Cadwalader, Samuel Clarke's Estate, Curtis Clay, senior. Rebecca Clifford, George Clymer, Samuel Coates, Hannah Coates, (now Clemens,) Josiah L. Coates, John Reynell Coates, Joseph S. Coates, William Coats's Estate, Abraham Cohen, Gustavus Colhoun, Hugh Colhoun, Zaccheus Collins, Jonathan Williams Condy, John M. Connelly, Daniel William Cooper's Estate, Joseph Cowperthwaite,- Joshua Cresson's Estate, Joseph Crukshank, George M. Cumming, Thomas Cumpston, D. William Davidson, Sharpe Delany's Estate Benedict Dorsey's Estate, Nathan Dorsey's Estate, John Dowers, Jacob Downing, John Drinker, junior. Edward Duffield's Estate, John Dunlap, James Dunlap, Peter S. Duponceau. G. Samuel Garrigues' Estate. Joseph Gerald's Estate, James Gibson, Esquire, Ferdinand Gourdon, William Graham's Estate, John Greiner, Samuel Powel Griffitts, Godfrey Haga, Frederick Hailer, Reuben Haines, John Hallowell, H. Andrew Hamilton's Estate, John Harland, Jacob Harman's Estate, Eden Haydock's Estate, John Keppele Helmuth, William Hembel, junior. Alexander Henry, Joseph Hertzog, |