. Registration card, face. (Reduced; actual size,
7-1/2 x 12-1/2 cm.)

Name. Geo. Brown No. 80
Residence. 72 Vernon.
Employment. Machinist.
Employer. Smith & Wesson's.
Place of business. 85 Main.]

[Illustration: No. 3. Registration card, reverse. (Reduced; actual
size, 7-1/2 x 12-1/2 cm.)

Feb. 14, 1899.

I hereby declare that I am a resident of the City of Springfield, and in
consideration of the right to use the Free City Library, agree to comply
with all Regulations provided for its government.

George Brown.

I hereby certify that the above subscriber is a fit person to enjoy the
privileges of the City Library, and that I will be responsible for any
loss or injury the Library may sustain from the permission given to draw
books in consequence of this certificate.

Signature (in ink)

Residing at No. Street.]

Double and special borrowers' cards are not needed under this
system. It accommodates itself readily to a "two-book" system. On the
book-cards belonging to the second book, and all other books after
the first, which any borrower may take, the librarian writes the
borrower's number preceded by any letter or sign which will serve to
indicate that these books are charged, not on the borrower's card, but
to the borrower direct, on the strength of a general permission to him
to take more than one book.

[Illustration: No. 4. Overdue notice. (Postal card, reduced.)

The City Library Association, Springfield, Mass. LITERATURE: ART:
SCIENCE.

The Library: Circulating Department.

The rules of the library require all books to be returned in two
weeks. Book No. G647.2 stands charged to you (Card No. 1906) as taken
from the library Feb. 2. '99.

You are incurring a fine of two cents for every day's detention.

If you think a mistake has been made, please notify us.

A charge of two cents is made for sending this notice.

The City Library. Per B.

Present this notice with your library card.]

The postal notice no. 1, the registration cards 2 and 3, the notice
that the book is overdue, no. 4, the fine slip, no. 5, all explain
themselves.

In most places, certainly in all small towns, a sufficient safeguard
against the loss of books is found in the signature of the borrower
himself. No guarantee need be called for. To ask for a guarantor for a
reputable resident is simply to discommode two people instead of one.
The applicat