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(28 Geo. 11. 6 Sess. 20 Assembly. L & S. 28 Geo. II. 6 Sess. 25 Ass. V S.)

MISCELLANEOUS.

1763. Account Book of Clothing &c. purchased for the Provincial Troops Raised in the pay of the Colony of New-York for the Campaign of 1762.

(Presented by Hon. F. H. Ruggles, Senator.)

1776-1779. Minutes of the Commissioners appointed by the General Assembly of South Carolina in pursuance of an Act passed Oct. 4, 1776, to superintend and direct the Naval affairs of that State.

(These minutes extend from 9th Oct. 1776, to 1st March, 1779, and fill 257 pp. folio.)

1797. Map of Part of the Land in the Royal Grant devised by Sir William Johnson to some of his Natural Indian Children; surveyed by Lawrence Vrooman, 1797.

(The names of the children, and the quantities of land devised to each are noted on the Map)

1814. Census of City of Albany, 1814.

(This is a bound 8vo. vol. and will be found among the other Books in the Library.)

Seal of Governor William Burnet, 1721.

Seal of Governor William Burnet, 1724.

Seal of James De Lancey, Lieutenant-Governor, 1758.

Seal annexed to the commission of Martin Beekman, as Lieutenant, 1758.

Three parchment writs addressed to the sheriffs of Westchester and Rockland, 1791-92.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

OF THE

STATE LIBRARY.

LAWS OF THE STATE.

Revised Statutes, Vol. I., Part I., Chap. IX., Title 8, Sect. 6. It shall be the duty of the Trustees to provide, in their regulations, that any member of the Senate or Assembly, during the session of the Legislature, or during the sitting of the Court for the Correction of Errors, or of the Senate only, shall be permitted, under proper restrictions, forfeitures and penalties, to take to his boarding-house, or private room, any book belonging to the Library, except such books as the Trustees shall determine are necessary always to be kept in the Library, as books of reference; but no member of the Legislature shall be permitted to take or detain from the Library, more than two volumes at any one time.

Ibid. Sect. 7. Before the President of the Senate, or the Speaker of the Assembly, shall grant to any member a certificate of the time of his attendance, he shall be satisfied that such member has returned all books taken out of the Library by him, and has settled all accounts for fines, for injuring such books, or otherwise.

Act of May, 1844, Sect. 5. The State Library shall be kept open every day in the year, Sundays excepted, during such hours in each day as the Trustees of the said Library may direct.

Ibid. Sect. 6. The Librarian shall be constant in his personal at tendance upon the Library during ths hours it shall be directed to be kept open, and shall perform such other duties as may be imposed by law, or by the rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the said Trustees. He may appoint some person of a suitable age, and having proper qualifications for the situation, as his assistant; but such appointment shall be submitted to the Trustees for their approval, and shall not be effectual without such approval.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE TRUSTEES,

1. During the session of the Legislature, or of the Senate only, and during the sitting of the Court of Errors, or of the Court of Chancery, or of the Supreme Court, in the Capitol, the Library shall be open from the hour of nine in the morning until the hour of nine in the evening, and on all other days, (Sundays excepted,) from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. On Christmas, New-Year, and other. holidays, the rooms shall be kept open only one hour in the morning, from 9 to 10 A. M.

II. It shall be the duty of the Librarian and Assistant Librarian to keep the Library rooms clean, neat, and in good order; carefully to preserve the books, maps, charts, engravings, medals and furniture; and to suffer none of them to be taken out of the Library, unless as expressly authorised by these regulations. The Librarian will be held accountable for the full value of every book that is missing, and for every injury which a book, map or chart may receive while he is in office, except such as may be sustained by ordinary use; and he will be relieved from such accountability, only by showing that some other person is responsible for such book or injury, without any fault of the Librarian. Whenever the Library is open, he shall attend the same, and shall on no account suffer any volume to be taken from the Library room, without first entering in a book to be provided by him, the name of the person taking the same, and the title of the volume.

For every instance of a violation of this rule, the Librarian shall forfeit one dollar, to be deducted from his salary.

III. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to preserve order, and to prevent smoking in the Library rooms. He shall also exclude, if necessary, any disorderly person. No talking, that the Librarian shall deem incompatible with quiet reading or copying, shall be permitted. Visitors are also requested not to seat themselves near the book shelves.

IV. Any member of the Legislature, during its session, or during the sitting of the Court of Errors, or of the Senate only, may take to his boarding-house or private room, any book belonging to the Library, other than those hereinafter particularly specified, under the restrictions, penalties and forfeitures following:

1. No book can be taken out, until its delivery has been entered by the Librarian.

2. Not more than two books can be taken out at a time. 3. No book can be detained more than one week; but the borrower may, after returning it, again take it out, unless some other member of the Legislature has in the mean time made application for it; in which case, such applicant shall have the preference in the use of the said book; and when there are

several applicants, the preference shall be according to the priority of their applications.

4. A fine of twenty cents shall be imposed for every day's detention beyond the week above specified, and collected by the Librarian.

5. If a book is lost or destroyed, or so much injured that the whole of it cannot be read, the borrower shall be charged the full value of the volume, and one-third of such value in addition; and if it belongs to a set of volumes, he shall be charged the value of the whole set, and one-third of such value in addition.

6. For any injury to a book subsequent to its being taken out, and previous to its return, a fine shall be imposed on the borrower, equal to its injury, to be determined by the Librarian, with the addition of thirty-three per cent.

7. Whenever a fine shall be imposed, or any charge made against the borrower of a book, he shall be immediately notified thereof by the Librarian. An appeal from such fine or charge may be made to the Library Committee.

V. No map, chart, print, engraving, or medal, or books of maps, charts, prints, or engravings, can be takan out of the Library room, nor the following books: Lexicons, Dictionaries, or Cyclopedias; Niles' Register, or any files of Newspapers; Wilson's Ornithology; Audubon's Birds of America, or his American Ornithological Biography; the Album Cosmopolite; Wilkes' Exploring Expedition, the 4to edition; Denton's History of New-York, 1670; Elliot's Indian Bible, 1680; Audubon's Quadrupeds, together with such other works as may from time to time be specified, according to a signed list, to be left with the Librarian; except that, during the session of the Legislature, or of the Court for the Correction of Errors, any member thereof may take to any room in the Capitol, any Lexicon, Dictionary, or Cyclopedia, Niles' Register, or any files of Newspapers, to be returned on the same day.

VI. The Trustees hereby declare, agreeably to the provisions of the Revised Statutes, that the Law Library, in its most extensive sense, comprehends such books of reference, as should always be kept in it; but during the session of the Legislature, of the Senate, of the Court for the Correction of Errors, and of any Court held in the Capitol, law books may be taken from the Library to any room in the Capitol, to be returned on the same day. The Librarian shall previously charge each person so taking, with the book or books; and a fine of fifty cents shall be imposed for each day's detention beyond the above time. The regulations above ordained, as to loss, injury, or damage of books, shall apply in the present

case.

VII. No books belonging to the Law Library are to be taken to the Miscellaneous Library, to be read; nor are books, maps, charts,

or prints, belonging to the Miscellaneous Library, to be taken to the Law Library, to be read or examined.

VIII. Three days previous to the day fixed for the adjournment of any session of the Legislature, or of any sitting of the Court for the Correction of Errors, or of the Senate, shall be fixed, the Librarian shall immediately address a note to each member of the Legislature having any book belonging to the Library, requesting the return thereof within twenty-four hours.

IX. After the expiration of the said twenty-four hours, the Librarian shall immediately make out a list of the members of each house of the Legislature, who have omitted to return any books belonging to the Library, specifying the volumes retained by each, and a list of those, upon whom any fines have been imposed, remaining unpaid, or against whom any charges for the loss of books exist, stating such fines or charges; which list shall be alphabetically arranged, according to the names of the respective members, and shall be certified to be correct. To the President of the Senate, the Librarian shall forthwith deliver the list relating to that body; and the list containing the names of the members of the Assembly, he shall forthwith deliver to the Speaker; and upon each list shall be written a copy of Sec. 7, Title 8, Chap. 9, Part I. of the Revised Statutes

X. Twenty days before the opening of any annual session of the Legislature, the Librarian shall report in writing to the Trustees the title of every book, map, chart, print, or engraving, missing from the Library, since the catalogue of the previous year was made out, or if no such catalogue has been made, since the date of said Librarian's last Annual Report to the Trustees; together with the name or names of the persons who appear, from the entries of the Librarian, to have borrowed or detained the same, to the end that such list may be submitted to the Legislature by the Trustees.

XI. These regulations shall be conspicuously posted and hung in frames in the Library, and the other rooms of the Capitol. By order of the Regents of the University,

as Trustees of the State Library.

PÉTER WENDELL, Chancellor.

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