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THE prefent volume contains the Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society. Another fimilar volume will contain the Catalogues of the other portions of the entire collection of the Society, embracing the Manuscripts, Maps and Charts, Coins and Medals, Gallery of Art, etc. The Appendix, occafionally referred to in this, will accompany the fecond volume, and will include the separate Catalogue of Newspapers.

LIBRARY, NEW-YORK, January, 1859.

LIBRARY REGULATIONS.

[EXTRACT FROM THE BY-LAWS.]

XXI. The following fhall be the regulations for the ufe of the Library:

1.

N. book or manufcript fill at any time be leat to any perfon t. be removed from the Library.

2.

No manufcript in the Library, nor any paper read before the Society and depofited in its archives, thall be publifhed, except by the direction of the Society, or with the confent of the Executive Committee.

3.

The hours during which the Library fhall be open, fhail be determined, from time to time, by the Executive Committee,

During fuch hours, any member of the Society may have free accefs to confult any book or manufcript, except fuch as may be cefignated by the Executive Committee, and to make extracts from he fame under the authority of the Librarian. Any perfon not a

member, may obtain the like privilege of confultation from the Prefident or Librarian, if known to them, or upon the recommendation of fome other member, to whom the applicant is known. But no perfon not a member, fhall be permitted to take extracts from the manufcripts of the Soety, excepting the donors or depofitors of the fame, without fpecial authority from the Executive Committee.

5.

It fhall be the duty of the Librarian, or his Affiftant, to report to the Executive Committee any injury done to any book or manufcript by any perfon confuiting the fame; and the faid Committee may, at their difcretion, lay fuch reports before the Society. For any fuch injury, the perfon doing it fhall make fuch pecuniary compenfation as the faid Committee fhall judge proper; and if he be not a member, the Committee fhall have power to prohibit him from further accefs to the Library.

LIBRARY HOURS.

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From May to October, 9 a. M. till 6 P. M.
From October to May, 9 A. M. till 9 P. M.

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