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Newark City Directory 1890-91, 1890
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1THE MUTUAL BENEFIT
2INSTITUTE, N. Y.,
3ESSEX INSTITUTE.
5PRESENTED BY
6Exchange
7New York Public Library
9The Library Committee shall divide the books and other articles belonging to the Library into three classes, namely, (a) those which can not be removed from the building; (b) those which may be taken only by written permission of three members of the committee; (c) those which may circulate under the following rules.
11Members shall be entitled to take from the Library two folio or quarto volumes, or four volumes of lesser fold, upon having them recorded, and promising to make good any damage they sustain, while in their possession, and to replace the same if lost, or pay a sum fixed by the Library Committee.
13No person shall lend any book belonging to the Institute, excepting to a member, under a penalty of one dollar for each offence.
15The Library Committee may allow members to take more than the allotted number of books upon a written application.
17No person shall detain any book longer than four weeks from the Library, if notified that the same is wanted by another member, under a penalty of five cents per day, and no volume shall be detained longer than three months at one time under the same penalty.
19The Librarian shall have power by order of the Library Committee to call in any volume after it has been retained by a member for ten days.
21On or before the first of each month, all books shall be returned to the Library, and a penalty of five cents per day shall be imposed for each volume detained.
23No book shall be allowed to circulate until one month after its receipt.
25Received April 9, 1904
27D 49 N10 1890
28LOSSES PAID
30Immediately upon completion and approval of proofs.
32J. B. PEARSON, Vice-President.
33EDWARD L. DOBBINS, Secretary and Treasurer.
34B. J. MILLER, Mathematician.
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