12. All conduct and conversation inconsistent with quiet and good order are prohibited. 13. The privileges of the Library and Reading Room shall be denied to all persons who persistently violate the Rules, or deface any book or other property of the Library with writing, marks, or mutilation. 14. The Librarian, under direction of the Library Committee, shall have charge of the Library property, performing all the duties usually incumbent on this office, and observing and exacting a strict compliance with the Rules. 15. No one shall be permitted access to the shelves, unless connected with the management of the Library. 16. A complete record of the doings of the Library shall be kept for the inspection of the Directors, and a full report of the same shall be made when required. The following Law of this State will be enforced on known offenders. "Whoever willfully and maliciously writes upon, injures, defaces, tears, or destroys any book, plate, picture, engraving, or statute, belonging to any law, town, city, or public library, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, for every offence." JOHN JAMES BABSON, President. EDWARD DOLLIVER, Clerk of the Corporation and of the Board. ALEXANDER PATTILLO, Treasurer. Trustees: JOHN JAMES BABSON, Chairman, BENJAMIN H. CORLISS, ALLAN ROGERS, HIRAM RICH, Treasurer, JOSEPH O. PROCTER, JOSEPH L. STEVENS, Secretary, EDWARD H. HASKELL. DEED OF CONVEYANCE. Know all men by these presents, that I, Samuel E. Sawyer, of Gloucester, County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in consideration of one dollar, paid by John James Babson, Charles H. Hildreth, Allan Rogers, Hiram Rich, Joseph O. Procter, Joseph L. Stevens and Edward II. Haskell, trustees, all residents of said Gloucester, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, and convey, unto the said Babson, Hildreth, Rogers, Rich, Procter, Stevens and Haskell, who are appointed my trustees, and have accepted the trust to act under the authority herein given, with full power of substitution to fill any vacancies occasioned by death or otherwise, in order hat this trust shall be made perpetual: A certain tract or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situate on the corner of Middle street and Dale avenue in said Gloucester, as described by a deed of conveyance to Samuel E. Sawyer by William A. Pew, dated January twenty-eighth, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and recorded in the Essex Registry of Deeds, Southern District, February first, 1884, Book 1124, Leaf 10, containing (29,944 feet) twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-four fect of land, more or less; a full description of the same may be found in said deed, to which reference may be had. This property is given to my trustees for the benefit, in trust, of the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Li |