RULES to be observed in the circulation and use of the
Books and Apparatus in 1848.
1. The General Committee shall determine how long each volume, piece or set of apparatus, drawing, model or specimen, may continue in the possession of our members.

2. Each volume, piece of apparatus, drawing, model or specimen, shall be numbered and valued, and have the time for perusal or use written on, or otherwise attached to them.

3. A Register shall be kept in which the number of the volume, piece or set of apparatus, drawing, model or specimen taken out by any member, shall be entered by the Librarian, as well as the date when it was taken out, opposite to which entry the member taking out the same shall sign his name; and when returned, the Librarian shall enter the date and affix his initials to the entry.

4. A member may take out the same volume, piece or set of apparatus, drawing, model or specimen for a second period provided no previous application shall have been made for the same by any other member. Such application to be made to the Librarian in writing previous to the night of exchange.

5. Any member detaining a volume, piece of apparatus, drawing, model or specimen beyond the time appointed shall be fined the sum of twopence for the first night of exchange he has detained them and the fine shall be doubled on every succeeding night of exchange during which he detains them.

6. Any member damaging or soiling a volume or drawing, or breaking or losing a piece of apparatus, model or specimen, shall be charged with the value of the whole set to which it belongs - he having the option of paying the value and taking the set or of replacing the injured or missing article, provided that in the case of books the volumes so replaced shall be of the same edition, size and binding and that in the case of drawings, apparatus, models or specimens, the General Committee shall determine the sufficiency of the article returned.

7. The General Committee shall have the power of determining what books, apparatus, drawings, models or specimens are to be for reference only, and which are on no account to be removed from the library except for the purposes of a lecture before the Institute.
8. The Librarian shall prepare and keep complete an alphabetical Catalogue of the Books, apparatus, drawings, models and specimens for the use of the members. The Catalogue to contain the numbers and value attached to each article and book.

9. The nights and hours for exchanging shall be the Wednesday and Saturday of every week from seven to nine o'clock.

10. Any member wishing a particular work to be procured for the Library shall submit the title, value and publisher's name to the General Committee at any of its ordinary meetings; who shall determine on its purchase or reject it. In case of rejection they shall state the reasons to the member proposing it.

11. The names of members or other parties making a donation of books, apparatus, drawings, models or specimens to the Institute shall be recorded in a Journal to be kept for that purpose by the Librarian.