3. The poll shall be opened at one, and closed at four o'clock, in the afternoon of the same day; and every member who shall vote at such election shall deliver to the inspectors a ballot containing the names of not more than twelve persons; and the inspectors shall deposit all the ballots as they are delivered to them in a box, and shall keep a poll-list of the names of the persons so voting. As soon as the poll shall be closed, the inspectors shall count the ballots, and before examining any of them, shall destroy as many as the whole number shall exceed the number of names upon the poll-list, in case of any such excess; after which, they shall open and count the votes, and shall openly declare the names of the twelve persons who shall be found to be elected by a majority of all the votes given, and shall deliver a certificate thereof under their hands, to the secretary, to be by him laid before the trustees, at their next meeting.

4. No person under the age of twenty-one years, or who is not a member of this corporation, shall be eligible to the office of trustee.

5. No member of this corporation shall vote at any election, unless his name shall be entered in the treasurer's register, nor unless he shall have paid and discharged all arrears and dues to the society; nor shall any member vote by proxy, nor in any case have more than one vote.

CHAPTER IV.

OF THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS, AND THE TRANSFERRING OF RIGHTS IN THE LIBRARY.

1. Any person may, with the approbation of the trustees met at any legal meeting, or the major part of them so met, be admitted a member of this corporation; and shall be entitled to one right in the library for every sum of twenty-five dollars paid by him, and shall also be entitled to receive for every such right, a certificate under the seal of the corporation, signed by the secretary, and countersigned by the treasurer.

2. Every person claiming a right in the library by purchase or gift from any member, or from his or her executors or administrators, before admission as a member of this corporation, shall prove his or her title to the satisfaction of the treasurer and secretary for the time being; and upon such proof being made, the treasurer shall enter his or her name in the register of the names of the members of this corporation he is required to keep as herein before mentioned, and also note therein the fact of the transfer of the right, opposite to the name of the person who held it immediately previous. And thereupon a certificate, as mentioned in the last section, may be granted to such new member; which certificate, in the case of the transfer of a right, shall state the admission to be by virtue of such purchase or gift, as the case may be, from some other member. 3. Before any transfer of a right shall be allowed, the treasurer shall be

satisfied, by the certificate of the librarian, that no fines or forfeitures have been incurred in respect to such right, since the date of his last annual report thereof, or if any shall have been since incurred, the librarian shall certify the amount. And such fines and forfeitures, and all other sums due upon such right, shall be paid, before any entry of the transfer shall be made by the treasurer in the register.

4. Pursuant to the authority vested in the trustees, by the acts of the Legislature respectively passed on the 8th of March, 1802, and the 5th of March, 1819, the sum of four dollars shall be annually paid to the treasurer for each and every right now held in the library, instead of the sum of ten shillings mentioned in the charter.

5. April 26th, 1842. It was Resolved, that in pursuance of the authority granted by the Act of the Legislature passed the 24th of March last, there shall be demanded and payable hereafter on each and every right or share in this corporation now subject to the payment of four dollars the sum of six dollars, and on each right or share now free of all annual dues or payments the sum of two dollars; the said sums of six dollars and two dollars to become due and payable on the first Tuesday of every May hereafter.

6. June 10th, 1842. It was Resolved, that the sums for commuting the annual dues hereafter be seventy-five dollars for the annual payment of six dollars, and twenty-five dollars for the annual payment of two dollars, on the respective rights subject to such payments.

7. No right in the library shall be absolutely forfeited for the non-payment of the yearly dues thereon, unless such forfeiture shall be declared by the trustees, or a major part of them, in legal meeting convened, and entered upon the minutes of such meetings:—and before any such declaration shall be made, the treasurer shall give notice to the member entitled to such right, or to his or her legal representatives, or one of them, wherever they can be ascertained, that it will become forfeited, unless the sums due thereon shall be paid within thirty days after the service of such notice; and the treasurer shall also previously report to the trustees the giving of such notice, and the time and manner thereof, and the expiration of the said thirty days.

CHAPTER V..

OF ALTERATIONS OF AND ADDITIONS TO THE BY-LAWS.

No addition to or alteration of the By-laws shall be made at the same meeting at which it is proposed, except by the unanimous consent of the trustees met at such meeting; nor shall any addition or alteration be made before it has been reduced to writing, and referred to, and reported upon by a select committee appointed to consider thereof, unless such reference to a committee shall be dispensed with, by two thirds of the trustees met at any legal meeting.

TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY, SINCE ITS FOUNDATION.

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THE ALPHABETICAL CATALOGUE.

BOOKS ADDED SINCE THE VOLUME WAS PUT TO PRESS.

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Letters on the Masonic Institution. 8vo. Boston, 1847. Gift of Henry Gannett, Esq., of Boston.

ADAMS, THOMAS. The Barren Tree, a Sermon. Small 4to. London, 1623. Gift of Leonard W. Kip, Esq.

AGASSIZ, LOUIS. Lake Superior; Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, with a Narrative of the Tour, by J. Elliot Cabot. 8vo. Boston, 1850.

AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE; A Miscellany of Romance, &c., &c. 6 vols. 8vo. London, 1842-1844.

*ALBANY Annual Register for 1850, by Joel Munsell. 12mo. Albany, 1850. ALLEN, JOSEPH H. Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy. 12mo. Boston, 1849. ALLEN, THOMAS. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth and the Archiepiscopal Palace. 8vo. London, 1837.

*ALMANACH DE GOTHA. Annuaire Diplomatique et Statistique pour l'Année 1850. 18mo. Gotha.

*AMERICAN Almanac for 1850. 12mo. Boston, 1849.

*AMERICAN ARCHIVES. Fourth Series. Vol. 6, fol. Wash., 1846.

*AMERICAN ARCHIVES. Fifth Series. Vol. 1. fol. Wash., 1848. Two above Gift of Hon. Saml. R. Betts.

ANDERSEN, H. C. Rambles in the Romantic Regions of the Hartz Mountains. 12mo. London, 1848.

*ANNUAIRE de l'Economie Politique et de la Statistique pour 1849, par MM. Joseph Garnier et Guillaumin. 18mo. Paris, 1849.

ANTHON, CHARLES. A System of Ancient and Medieval Geography. 8vo. New York, 1850.

APÔTRES, LES ACTES DES. 11 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1789–1792.