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4. The Funds of the Committee of Correspondence shall be provided exclusively for its own purposes, and the Society's ordinary funds shall not be responsible for any debt incurred by the Committee of Correspondence, though it shall be lawful to make appropriations from such funds from time to time, in aid of the Committee's objects.

5. The Committee of Correspondenco shall be entitled to make Rules for its own guidance and government in carrying on its business, provided such Rules are held before the next ensuing General Meeting of the Society, and are then approved of.

Chapter XI.-Agricultural Committee.

1. There shall be a Committee to consist of not less than ten and not more than twenty-four Members of the Society, and to be called "THE AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE."

2. Such Committee shall in the first instance be elected at a General Meeting of the Society, but shall have power to fill up vacancies in its own body, and to add to its number, subject to revision at a General Meeting of the Society. The Committee shall thereafter be elected annually at the General Meeting of the Society in December.

3. The Committee so elected shall, at its first Meeting, appoint a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman, and a Secretary. At all Meetings three Members shall consti. tute a quorum.

4. The Agricultural Committee shall give its attention chiefly to the improve. ment of Agriculture throughout the Colony, and co-operate with the Committee of Correspondence in making arrangements for holding periodical Exhibitions of Agricultural Produce and Live Stock, at which Premiums may be offered and awarded.

Chapter XII-Exchange Room and Reading Room.

1. In the Exchange Room or Reading Room shall be kept, for the use of the Members, files of the London Gazette, and of the Official Gazette of this Colony; also of such Commercial, Shipping, and other Lists, Newspapers, and Publications as the Book Committee shall think proper to select.

2. The Reading Room shall be supplied with such Newspapers and Periodical Publications as the Book Committee may think desirable.

3. The Exchange Room and Reading Room shall be open for the use of the Members daily, at such hours and under such regulations as the Society or the Board of Directors may from time to time appoint.

Chapter XIII.-Museum and Model Room.

1. The Society may devote a portion of its funds annually to the procuring of Models and Diagrams of such Implements and Machinery connected with Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Arts, as the Society may think it desirable to introduce into this Colony.

2. In the Museum shall be kept the best Specimens which can be obtained of the Productions of the Colony, both indigenous and introduced; more particu larly Specimens of Minerals, Šoils, Woods, Fibres, Fruits, Seeds. Gums. Resins, Dyes, and Drugs, and of all other Productions of the Colony, which either have been or may hereafter be successfully cultivated or used as articles of commerce or of food.

3. Specimens

Ord. 19anne 1866.1

3. Specimens of the Productions of other countries which it is supposed may be successfully introduced into and cultivated in the Colony, shall also when practicable be obtained.

4. Specimens illustrative of the Zoology of the Colony, it will likewise be the object of the Society to procure-especially such as may tend to illustrate the Ichthyology of the coasts and rivers of the Colony, and render its Fisheries of more importance.

Chapter XIV-Premiums.

As soon as the Funds of the Society will permit, Premiums may be offered for improvements in the Agriculture of the Colony,-for the application of Manures to the cultivation of the Soil-for improved methods of clearing and draining Land,-for the improvement of Pasture Lands,-for the improvement of Implements and Machinery, for the improvement of existing, and the introduction of new and improved breeds of Horses, Cattle, and Stock of every description,-for the improvement of the Cottages and Dwellings of the labouring population, and generally for the advancement of the various objects embraced and contemplated by the Society.

2. Grants of Money to aid in useful experiments of any kind, such as the testing of the utility of new inventions, the chemical analysis of soils, and other purposes, may be also given by the Society.

Chapter XV.-Making and Altering By-Laws and Rules.

1. When a motion is made for the alteration of existing By-Laws, or the enactment of new ones, it shall lie over till the next General Meeting of the Society, and if then approved of by a majority of the Members present, it shall be held as carried.

2. The Board of Directors shall have the power of making such Rules as they shall think proper and necessary, and the same shall be held to be of equal force and effect with the By-Laws of the Society: Provided that nothing contained in the Rules so to be enacted shall be at variance or inconsistent with the By-Laws of the Society already existing, and provided the same shall not be ordered by the Society, after such enactment, to be altered, amended, or rescinded.

3. All By-Laws, and Rules made and enacted by the Society, or the Board of Directors respectively, shall be entered in a book, to be kept in the ReadingRoom for the information and guidance of the Members.

Schedule B.

RULES FOR THE READING ROOM AND LIBRARY.

1. The Rooms to be open daily, except Sundays, from 7, A.M., till dusk.

2. On Sundays the Rooms to be open from 7, A.M., till 4, P.M.

3. All Books, Newspapers, Periodicals, and other Publications, to be marked with the name of the Society before being placed on the tables of the Reading Room, or in the Library.

4. All Newspapers, which are not filed by the Society, to be removed and disposed of on the arrival of each Packet.

5. A Record

5. A Record to be kept in the Reading-Room of the Dates of Entry, the Names, and the Cargoes, of all Vessels entered at the Custom-House, Georgetown. This Record to be styled, the "Register of Imports.".

6. A Record to be kept in the Reading-Room of the Dates when cleared, the Names, and the Cargoes of all Vessels cleared at the Custom-House, Georgetown. This Record to be styled the "Register of Exports."

7. A Memorandum of the Telegraphs of all Vessels signalled at the LightHouse to be instantly made on a slate in the Reading Room. A more particular Record of the same to be afterwards entered in a Book, to be styled, the "Register of Arrivals and Departures."

8. No Notice to be put up in the Rooms without the authority or signature of 8 Member. Each Notice must have a date affixed to it, and may be taken down, or expunged, by order of the Managing Directors, or of the Secretary, after having been up for more than three days.

9 All applications for the use of the Rooms of the Society must be addressed to the Secretary; and the President, or in his absence the Vice-President, and any two of the Managing Directors, shall have the power of deciding on such applications.

10. No Games to be played in the Rooms, except Chess, Backgammon, and Draught.

11. No Smoking to be allowed in the Rooms, or in the Gallery.

Schedule C.

RULES FOR CIRCULATING BOOKS, PERIODICALS, &c.

1. Members residing in Georgetown shall be entitled to take out Three Volumes, and One Number of any Periodical.

2. Members not residing in Georgetown, shall be entitled to take out Six Volumes, and Two Numbers of any Periodical.

3. No Number of any Periodical shall be taken out until after the arrival of the next succeeding number.

4. There shall be written or printed in every Volume and Periodical, the number of days allowed for reading it, and a fine of Four Cents shall be paid for very day that any Volume or Periodical shall be kept beyond that time.

5. No Member in arrear of the payment of any fine shall be entitled to take out any Book or Periodical.

6. No Book or Periodical shall be taken ont except on application to the Assis tant Secretary, either at the regular times of his attendance from 7 till 9 in the morning, and from 12 till 2, and from 4 till 6 in the afternoon, or at any other times when he may happen to be present at the Rooms.* No Books or Periodi. cals shall be taken out on Sundays.

7. The

*Country Members are exempted from the former part of this Rule, and allowed to obtain Books or Periodicals at any hour, in case of either the Assistant Secretary or the Attendant being present at the Rooms; but not however, in case of both being absent at the same time. They are also allowed four days (for sending for and returning Books) over and above the number limited for reading them.

7. The Assistant Secretary shall keep a Book in which he shall enter the Name and the Number of the Volume of every Work, and the Name and the Date of every Periodical taken out, the Name of the Person by whom taken out, the Date when taken out, the Date when returnable, the Date when returned, and the amount of the Fine (if any) incurred.

8. The Books and Periodicals marked "R," shall be considered as Works of Reference and shall not be taken out, except with the written permission of one of the Managing Directors.

9. The Books and the Periodicals may be collected within the Library, and their circulation be stopped, at such times and for such periods, respectively, as the Managing Directors may think fit.

10. Any Member returning a Book or Periodical, which shall appear to have been injured whilst in his possession, shall be bound to pay for repairing or replacing such Book or Periodical according as the Managing Directors shall decide.

11. Any Member may engage a Book or Periodical, not in the Library at the time of his application for it, by writing his name and that of the Book or Peri. odical in a Book kept in the Rooms for this purpose; and such Book or Periodical so engaged, shall, on being returned to the Library, be retained for such applicant for twenty-four hours after its return, and no longer.

12. Any Member may renew or again take out a Book or Periodical for an additional period not excceding the number of days allowed for reading it once (and no more) without returning it, and even if it shall be engaged; except he shall have failed to pay any fine that the Assistant Secretary may, previously to application being made for such renewal have notified to have been incurred by him.

13. No Member shall exchange a Book or Periodical with another Member, or lend a Book or Periodical to any other Member, or to any other person.

14. Any person wilfully infringing any of the above Rules, shall be bound to day for the first offence a fine of One Dollar, for the second offence a fine of Two Dollars, and for the third offence, or for refusing to pay any fine so incurred, shall be deprived of the use of the Library until he shall have paid the fine incurred, and such further fine as the Board of Directors or the Society shall think proper to impose.

15. During the time that serials or Periodicals are required to remain on the Reading Room Table, any Member may take out one number of any such serial or Periodical, between the hours of 6 o'clock in the evening and 7 o'clock the following morning; but every number so taken out must be returned not later than 7 o'clock, A.M., and any Member neglecting to return any number taken out by him before that hour, shall pay a fine of six cents for each hour that it is detained thereafter: Provided also, that if it shall appear to the Managing Directors that any Member wilfully or habitually neglects to return such serials or Periodicals so taken out, they may order that such Member shall be deprived for such period as they may think proper, of the privilege of taking out the same under this Rule.

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No. XXII.

No. XXII.

AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND TOWN [Ord. 20 anno
COUNCIL OF GEORGETOWN TO IMPROVE THAT PART OF 1866.]
SOUTH AND NORTH CUMINGSBURG EXTENDING FROM
SEWARD'S CANAL SOUTH TO THE RAILWAY PREMISES
NORTH, AND FOR SUCH PURPOSE TO BORROW FROM THE
COLONY A SUM OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS.*

Enacted 15th November, 1866, published the 17th fol-
lowing, came into operation on publication.

[ROBERT MILLER MUNDY, Lieutenant-Governor.] WHEREAS at a Special Meeting of the Honorable the Court Preamble.

of Policy combined with the Financial Representatives of the Inhabitants of the Colony, held on the twenty-first day of September, of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, it was resolved by the said Combined Court as follows:

Whereas at a session of this Court on the fifteenth day of May last, there was brought forward a petition of the Mayor and Town Council of Georgetown, having for its object the guarantee of a loan not to exceed Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars for the improvement of that part of Water-street situate between the place known as Seward's Canal on the South, and the premises of the Railway Company on the north, to which petition were attached certain proposals for such improvement: And whereas certain resolutions were thereupon passed, but doubts have arisen as to the intent and effect of these resolutions: And whereas it is desirable that a sum not to exceed Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars should be borrowed by the Colony, and should be lent by the Colony to the Mayor and Town Council, for the purpose of enabling them to effect such improvement: Be it therefore resolved as follows:

1. That

So much of this Ordinance as is inconsistent with Ordinance 17 of 1871 is repealed by the latter.