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can't rooms on the second floor of the capital, except those on the south side of the building. As these do not adjoin the present library rooms, they cannot be used without an increased expense for fuel, light and attendance; and the Trustees have suspended any new arrangement for the accommodation of the library until they could receive the direction of the Legislature.

Should it be deemed expedient to separate the law and miscellaneous books, and not keep open the miscellaneous department, except during the session of the Legislature and the sittings of the Court for the Correction of Errors, the whole addition to the present contingent expenses of the library, including attendance, would not probably exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars per an

num.

Since the last annual report there have been added to the library seventy-five folio volumes, as a present from the British Government. These books contain, among other things, a great number of ancient records and public documents, connected with the history, politics and jurisprudence of that country, which have been collected and published under the authority of the King, for their better preservation, and for the purpose of diffusing more widely the information which they contain. The Trustees have caused a descriptive catalogue to be made of these volumes, giving a pretty full analysis of their contents. This was rendered the more necessary, from the fact that several of the volumes are without an index.

The Trustees submit herewith, marked C, a correspondence between O. Rich, esq., an American gentleman who is an extensive bookseller in London, and C. P. Cooper, esq., Secretary of the Record Commissioners. From this correspondence it will be seen, that the Record Commissioners were "desirous of presenting copies of their valuable publications to some of the literary institutions of the United States;" and that Mr. Rich furnished a list of twenty-one American institutions, including the New-York State Library, to all of which copies have been furnished.

Mr. Rich manifests a lively interest in every thing relating to the welfare of his native country. The Trustees have already made several purchases of books from him, and intend soon to send out further orders.

The Trustees have reason to believe, that a few copies of our Revised Statutes, with a copy of the Journals and Legislative Decuments, so far as they can be furnished, would not be unacceptable to the Record Commissioners; and should the Legislature authorize it, the Trustees will forward those works on the opening of the river navigation in the spring.

Following the practice of former years, the Trustees intend to have this report printed in anticipation of the meeting of the Legislature.

Respectfully submitted.

Albany, December 31, 1834.

GREENE C. BRONSON,
JOHN A. DIX,

A. C. FLAGG,

Trustees of the State Library.

CATALOGUE

BOOKS, MAPS, &c.

BELONGING TO, AND REMAINING IN THE STATE LIBRARY,

JANUARY 1, 1885.

N. B. All the books enumerated in this Catalogue are bound, and of octavo size, unless otherwise expressly mentioned: Congressional and Legislative Journals will be found arranged under the head of "State Papers;" and Statutes under "Statute Law."

A CATALOGUE OF LAW BOOKS,

ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY,

Abbot on Shipping,

Abstract of the Revised Statutes, (of New-York,)..

Acton's Reports, (Prize Causes,)

Adams on Ejectment, see "Tillinghast's Adams on Ejectment.

Addams' Reports, (Ecclesiastical,).

Addington's Penal Statutes, (fol.)

Addison's Reports, (Pennsylvania,)

Admiralty Decisions, ...

Aikens' Reports, (Vermont,)

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