{"newspaper_name": "Portland gazette and Maine advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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Its with plealIiTe we hear that the Port-
land Library, has lately been re effabhfhed.
The Rules and Bye Laws Of the Society have
been revifed and improved. Before this, the
library conGfted OF FIVE hundred volumes
Two huhdred dollars were due from delin-
guent members, which has fnce been chiefly
paid in, and the Library has been thereby
rePleniiheG with number Of very valsable
Books, and one Of its proprotors has gen.
eroutiy offered TO advance an additional num-
Der 10 the value Of one hundred dollars for the
ufe of the iociety. The number Of Members
before the revihon and Improvement was
made, was thirty three; hnce which, and
within y few days pat, fifteen new members
have been admitted whereby the foaiety
viii be enabled to increalc the library 70 near
ly one thouiand volumes. Each new member
who may be admitted before the fri Tuel-
day of January next has to pay on admifiion,
only fifteen dollars. The Bye Laws Of the
fociety with catalogue ofthe books and Tilt
ofmembers are to be printed as foon as may
be. after the fr1 day Of July next.-When
II Is eonhdeted that for 70 fnlall fun, each
member, can conHantly have All the inlfruc-
ION and amufem,nt, which he could cbtsin
from a large and expenive library of biz own,
We think this mutt be deemed a very ufefuf
inititution.