A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library

SECTION XII.

OF SUB-COMMITTEES.

ART. I.-The Managers shall have power to appoint as many Committees as they shall think useful, for the purpose of scientific and experimental investigations, and to admit into such Committees any person, whether Proprietors, Subscribers, or not, and to allow such Committees to hold their meetings at the House of the Institution.

II. The President, the Managers, the Visitors, and the Secretary, shall have a right to attend all such Committees whenever they think proper.

III.-These Committees shall occasionally report their progress to the Managers.

SECTION XIII.

OF THE COMMON-SEAL AND OF DEEDS.

ART. I.-The Common-Seal of the Institution shall be kept in an iron chest having three keys and locks; and these keys shall be kept, one by the President, or in his absence by one of the Vice-Presidents, one by a Manager appointed to that trust by the Committee of Management, and one by the Secretary.

II.-When any person holding one of these keys, leaves his residence in the metropolis for a longer period than fourteen days, he shall deliver his key into the keeping of some one of the Managers, at his option, who remains in town, and inform the Secretary of his having done so: provided always, that the Manager so named has not in his custody any of the remaining keys.

III.-Whenever the Common-Seal of the Corporation is to be affixed to any deed or writing, notice thereof shall be sent to each of the Managers, at least two days previous to the completion of such business, in which notice the nature of such deed or writing shall be fully explained, and all such deeds and

writings shall be passed and sealed at a meeting of the Managers, and countersigned by the President or Chairman, and by the Secretary, and an account of the proceedings shall be entered on the minutes of the meeting.

SECTION XIV.

OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

ART. I.—The sum placed in the Public Funds as a provision for the permanency and stability of the Institution, shall not be less than £35,000 three per cent. Government Annuities.

II.-The Rents, Revenues, and Annual Income, of the Institution, shall be applied by the Managers in discharging Rent, taxes, salaries, wages, repairs, current and incidental expenses, and in the purchase of foreign and domestic Journals, Periodical and other new publications, for the use of the ReadingRoom.

III.—The surplus of such income shall be applied at the discretion of the Managers, to the improvement and augmentation of the Library and Apparatus for philosophical experiments.

SECTION XV.

OF THE LIBRARY.

ART. I.—The Library shall be open for the use of Proprietors and Subscribers daily, from Ten in the morning till Ten at night, excepting as in SECTION VIII. ARTICLE I. Page 39.

II.-The Books belonging to the Library shall be under the care and custody of the Librarian.

III.-No person shall take away any Book belonging to the Library.

IV.-A Catalogue of the Library shall be kept in the room for the use of the Proprietors and Subscribers.

V.-No Librarian or attendant, or any other officer or servant of the Institution shall receive any fee, perquisite, or gratuity, on account of, or during the execution of their office, under penalty of immediate dismission from the service of the Institution.

VI.-If any Member of the London Institution, or any Visitor, shall at any time or times hereafter take away from the Library or other part of the premises of the said Institution any Book, Pamphlet, Newspaper, Apparatus, or other property, belonging to the said Institution, or shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, or damage, the same, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay to the said Institution the sum of Twenty Pounds; and the said penalty shall and may be recovered, with full costs of suit, by action of debt, to be brought by and in the Corporate-name of the said Institution, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, and applied as part of the fund for the use and benefit of the said Institution; and, in addition to the said penalty, it shall and may be lawful for the Managers, if they shall think fit, to inscribe on a board to be set up and placed in some conspicuous part of the said Institution, the Name and address of the Proprietor or Visitor so offending.