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RULES AND REGULATIONS.

LENDING DEPARTMENT.

1. The Library is open to the public every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M., and Thursday, from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.—excepting Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday, from the Monday to the Saturday of the last clear week in June of each year, and upon any other occasion when the Committee may so direct.

2. The Conditions under which Books are lent from this Library are: That the Borrower shall first obtain the signature and address of a responsible person (whose name must be on the current Municipal Burgess List), upon a form provided, who shall guarantee the return of the Book free from injury, replace the same, or pay its value, together with the amount of fines that may have been incurred.

3. The Voucher must be delivered to the Librarian, and (if on examination it is found to be correct) the Ticket (for which a charge of ONE PENNY will be made) will be ready on the same day in the following week, but will only be delivered to the Borrower in person.

4. Burgesses may sign their own Vouchers.

5. The Librarian shall carefully examine, or cause to be examined, each BOOK returned, and if the same be found to have sustained any damage or injury, he shall require the person to whom the same was lent, or his Guarantor, to pay the amount of the damage done, or to procure a new copy of equal value; and, in the latter case, the person supplying it shall be entitled to the damaged copy, on depositing the new one.

6. It is desirable that Books should be delivered to, and returned by, the Borrowers personally. When they cannot conveniently visit the Library, they are requested to send a responsible messenger, competent to deliver their messages, and to take due care of the Books. The Librarian has instructions to refuse Books to messengers whom he may consider not qualified to take proper care of them.

7. Borrowers returning their Books are required to deliver them to the Librarian or his Assistants.

8. The Borrower will be liable to a fine of ONE PENNY per week, or portion of a week, for each Volume lent, if not returned within Fourteen days, including the day of issue.

9. Any change in the residence of Borrowers, or their Guarantors, must be intimated to the Librarian within one week of such change, under penalty of the forfeiture of the Borrower's Ticket.

10. Borrowers leaving the district, or ceasing to use the Library, are required to return their Tickets to the Librarian, in order to have their Guarantees cancelled, otherwise they and their Guarantors will be held responsible for any Books taken out in their names.

11. Books cannot be exchanged on the day of issue.

12. All Books must be returned to the Library on or before the Saturday preceding the last clear week in June in each year; in default thereof, a fine of TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE will be imposed.

13. No person shall have power to take any Book from the Library Shelves, or enter any portion of the Library premises, other than is devoted to the readers generally, without permission of the Librarian.

14. No person under Fourteen Years of age shall be eligible to borrow Books, or make use of the Library or News-Room, except by the Librarian's permission, which may be applied for.

15. Borrowers are expected to take the earliest opportunity of reporting any damage or injury done to the Books they receive, otherwise they will be held accountable for the value of the same.

16. No person shall be admitted who is in a state of intoxication; nor shall any audible conversation be permitted in the Rooms, nor shall any person be allowed to smoke. Any person who shall offend against these regulations, or shall be guilty of any misconduct, will not be allowed to remain within the Building.

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17. Having consulted the Indicator (adopted to facilitate the circulation), and ascertained the Work required to be in the Library, the Borrower will tender his Ticket, upon which the particulars are to be entered, and on receiving the Book, the Ticket is to be placed in the space attached to the number, where it will remain until the Work is returned. Books can only be issued to persons who comply with this rule.

18. Readers desirous of proposing Books for addition to the Library, or of making any suggestion as to its management, may do so by writing the same in a Suggestion-Book, which is to be regularly submitted to the Committee for consideration. Such suggestions must in each case bear the name and address of the writer.

19. The Librarian shall have power to suspend the Ticket of any Borrower who shall neglect to comply with any of these Rules and Regulations, such person having the right of appeal to the Library Committee.

Special attention is called to the following clause of 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. XLIV.

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"Every person who shall unlawfully and maliciously destroy or damage anything kept for the purpose of Art, Science, or Literature, . . . . in any . . Library, which . . . . is either at all times or from time to time open for the admission of the public, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being duly convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding Six Months! and if a male, may during the period of such imprisonment be put to hard labour, or be once, twice, or thrice privately whipped, in such manner as the Court before which such person shall be tried shall direct.

"Any person found committing any offence against this Act may be immediately apprehended, without a warrant, by any other person, and forthwith taken before some neighbouring Justice of the Peace, to be dealt with according to law."

REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.

1. No person shall be allowed to obtain any Book without signing a "Reader's Ticket" (which may be obtained on application to the Librarian or his Assistants), and such Signature shall be taken and considered to be an assent to the Rules and Regulations of the Library.

2. Any person giving a false name and address will be liable to legal proceedings.

3. Persons under sixteen years of age are not admitted to the Reference Library, except by the Librarian's permission.

4. It is expressly forbidden to remove from this Department any Book, Map, Manuscript, or other article belonging thereto; or to write or make any marks upon the same.

5. Readers are particularly requested not to soil or injure the Works used.

6. In copying Extracts, or taking tracings of Plates or Drawings, care must be observed in the use of Ink, Pencils, &c., so that the Works are in no way injured.

The general Rules contained under the head of "Lending Department," Nos. 1, 13, 16, and 18, are also applicable to this Department.

NEWS-ROOM.

1. Newspapers and Magazines must not be removed from the desks and tables upon which they are placed.

2. No Paper or Magazine can be retained longer than Ten Minutes after it has been inquired for by another person.

3. Any person clandestinely removing any Newspaper, Magazine, or other article from this Room will be prosecuted.

4. Persons under Fourteen years of age will not be admitted to the News-Room.

The general Rules contained under the head of "Lending Department," Nos. 16 and 18, are also applicable to this Department.

By order of the Committee,

W. J. HAGGERSTON,

Secretary and Librarian.

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