| 1. A person shall not engage in audible conversation in any reading room in the library, after having been requested not to do so by an officer or servant of the Library Authority. |
| 2. A person shall not wilfully obstruct any officer or servant of the Library Authority in the execution of his duty or wilfully disturb, interrupt or annoy any other person in the proper use of the library. |
| 3. A person shall not cause or allow any dog or other animal belonging to him or under his control to enter or remain in the library, or bring into any part of the library a bicycle or other wheeled vehicle or conveyance. |
| 4. A person other than an officer or servant of the Library Authority shall not enter or remain in any part of the library not set apart for the use of the public. |
| 5. A person shall not smoke or strike a light in any part of the library. |
| 6. A person shall not carelessly or negligently soil, tear, cut, deface, damage, injure, or destroy any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, map, chart, plan, engraving, etching, print or other document forming part of the contents of the library. |
| 7. A person other than an officer or servant of the notice to or upon any part of the library. |
| 8. A person who is offensively unclean in person or in dress, or who is suffering from an offensive disease, shall not enter or use the library. |
| 9. A person shall not lie on the benches, chairs, tables or floor of the library. |
| 10. A person shall not partake of refreshment in the library. |
| 11. A person shall not give a false name or address for the purpose of entering any part of the library or obtaining any privilege therefrom. |
| 12. A person shall not make a tracing of any portion of a book without the permission of the librarian. |
| 13. A person other than an officer or servant of the Library Authority shall not, unless duly authorised, take any book from any lending or home-reading department of the library. |
| 14. A person other than an officer or servant of the Library Authority shall not take any book from any reference department or reading room of the library. |
| 15. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing byelaws shall be liable for every such offence to a fine not exceeding the sum of five pounds. |
| 16. Every person who shall commit any offence against the Libraries Offences Act, 1898, or against any of the fore¬going byelaws may be excluded or removed from the library by any officer or servant of the Library Authority in any one of the several cases hereinafter specified, that is to say—
(i) Where the offence is committed within the view of such officer or servant and the name and residence of the person committing the offence are unknown to and cannot readily be ascertained by such officer or servant :
(ii) Where the offence is committed within the view of such officer or servant and from the nature of such offence or from any other fact of which such officer or servant may have knowledge or of which he may be credibly informed there may be reasonable ground for belief that the continuance in the library of the person committing the offence may result in another offence against the Act or against the bye-laws or that die exclusion or removal of such person from the library is otherwise necessary as a security for the proper use and regulation thereof.
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| The common seal of the Urban District Council of Rushden was hereunto affixed this eleventh day of April, 1951, in pursuance of a resolution passed on the fourteenth day of March, 1951.
F. E. BROWN,
Chairman.
A. G. CROWDY,
Clerk of the Council.
Confirmed under the Official Seal of the] Minister of Education this 12th day of June, 1951.
MERVYN LONGHURST,
Authorised under Section 3 of the Education Act, 1944.
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