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1860 March 13

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ADVERTISEMENT.

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 Manufcripts, 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 feparate Catalogue of Newspapers.

LIBRARY, NEW-YORK, January, 1859.

LIBRARY REGULATIONS.

[EXTRACT FROM THE BY-LAWS.]

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

1.

No book or manufcript fhall 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 confent 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 fuch as may be defignated by the Executive Committee, and to make extracts from the fame under the authority of the Librarian. Any person 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 Assistant, to report to the Executive Committee any injury done to any book or manuscript 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 shall have power to prohibit him from further access to the Library.

LIBRARY HOURS.

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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