esident and
Committee of the "Public Library" to "make good all losses and injuries,"
and committed the custody of the City Library to the Steward. In 1815
the City Library was again entrusted to the "Public Library." Ten years
afterwards, the "Public Library," which still housed the City Library,
was removed to a building in St. Andrew's Street. The admission fee to
this Library in 1825, as stated in the Catalogue of the Library of that
date, was five guineas, and the annual subscription was one guinea. This
Catalogue contains the following rules regarding the City Library:

"LIV. The books belonging to the City Library having been deposited
in the Library Room of the Public Library, by permission of the
Corporation, are accessible to the subscribers, and may be delivered
out under a written order of the president, or vice-president,
countersigned by an officer of the Corporation.

"LV. The Librarian shall have charge of the books belonging to the
City Library, and shall procure the necessary authority for the
delivery of books to subscribers applying for them.

"LVI. The books belonging to the City Library shall be returned to
the Librarian every quarter day; and the same fines and penalties
shall apply to subscribers not attending to this regulation, or to
losing, lending or injuring books belonging to the City Library,
which are laid down by the laws for the protection of the books
belonging to the Public Library."

In the same catalogue it was stated that the City Library was under the
particular inspection of the Mayor and seven members of the Council who
constituted the Library Committee of the Corporation. "The Right
Worshipful the Mayor of Norwich, for the time being, is an Honorary
Member of the Public Library; and the Members of the Library Committee of
the Corporation, together with the Speaker of the Commons, the Town
Clerk, and the Chamberlain, if not already Members of the Society, have
the privilege of constant access to the Library Rooms during their
continuance of office." {14} These rules were in force in 1847, and were
reprinted in a new edition of the Catalogue printed in that year. The
members of the rival subscription library, called "The Norfolk and
Norwich Literary Institution," which was established in 1822, were also
allowed to borrow books from the City Library, by an order from the
Chamberlain of the City. {15a} In 1835 th