LIBRARY REGULATIONS. [EXTRACT FROM THE BY-LAWS.] XXI. The following fhall be the regulations for the ufe of the Library: I. No book or manufcript shall at any time be lent to any perfon to be removed from the Library. 2. No manuscript in the Library, nor any paper read before the Society and depofited in its archives, fhall be published, except by the direction of the Society, or with the consent of the Executive Committee. 3. The hours during which the Library shall be open, shall be determined, from time to time, by the Executive Committee. 4. During fuch hours, any member of the Society may have free access to confult any book or manuscript, except such as may be defignated by the Executive Committee, and to make extracts from the 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 manuscripts of the Society, excepting the donors or depofitors of the fame, without special 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 person confulting the fame; and the faid Committee may, at their discretion, lay fuch reports before the Society. For any fuch injury, the perfon doing it fhall make fuch pecuniary compensation as the faid Committee fhall judge proper; and if he be not a member, the Committee fhall have power to prohibit him from further access to the Library. LIBRARY HOURS. From May to October, 9 a. M. till 6 p. m. OFFICERS OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ELECTED JANUARY, 1859. President. LUTHER BRADISH. First Vice President. THOMAS DE WITT, D.D. Second Vice President. Foreign Corresponding Secretary. Domestic Corresponding Secretary. Becording Secretary. ANDREW WARNER. Treasurer, WILLIAM CHAUNCEY. Librarian. GEORGE HENRY MOORE, Executive Committee. AUGUSTUS SCHELL, CHAIRMAN, BENJAMIN H. FIELD, FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D. D., JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD, BENJ. ROBERT WINTHROP. GEORGE H. MOORE, SECRETARY. [The officers of the Society are members, ex officio, of the Executive Committee.] Committee on the Fine Arts. ABRAHAM M. COZZENS, CHAIRMAN, SAMUEL OSGOOD, D. D., JONATHAN STURGES, ANDREW WARNER, BENJ. ROBERT WINTHROP, WILLIAM J. HOPPIN. ANDREW WARNER, SECRETARY. [The Prefident, Librarian, and Chairman of the Executive Committee are members, ex officio, of the Committee on the Fine Arts.] |