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Compendium on Acts and Rules

(i) No book is retained by the Member for a period exceeding 15 days from the date of

issue.
(ii) Books which are in demand shall be returned within seven days from the date of
issue, if the Collector or Subdivisional Officer so requires.

(iii) No Member shall at any time have more than three books in his possession.

(iv) No book will be sent to a Member by post.

(v) It is not permissible for the Member to lend the library book to any stranger.
NOTE.—Law Books, Law Reports and Calcutta Gazettes may be issued to prosecuting

Police Inspectors on their own requisition.

Register of 261. A register of all books, reports, returns, etc., issued from the library on requisitions
issues No. 78.
is to be kept in the following form and all books issued must be entered therein—vide

Form No. 13, Appendix A:—

Serial Title of Catalogue Officer to Bor- Date of Bate of Date of Remarks.
number. book. number whom rower's issue. return each

of copy. issued. initial and reminder.

with date. librarian’
s initial.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Issue of 262. Except in the case of books required by courts or officers for continuous reference,
reminders for if a book is not returned within a month, from its issue, a reminder must be sent at once,
books not
returned. and repeated every fortnight until the book is returned. At the end of each year the
entries relating to books* issued but not returned within the year should be brought

forward in red ink.
The District Officer may call upon a Member of the Council of State, the Legislative

Assembly or the Bengal Legislative Council to refund the cost price of any book
borrowed by him which is not returned to the library within a reasonable time of the issue

(by registered post) of a notice to such Member calling upon him to return the book.

Time of stock 263. When charge of the library is made over or stock is taken, the officer taking charge
taking.
of the stock must satisfy himself and note the fact in his report that all the books alleged
to have been issued as necessary to officers or courts for continuous reference are
really in existence.

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