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GERMAN LIBRARIES. 127 library. It lends it to its frequenter under the same conditions as its own books, but may be forbidden by the lending library to lend it out of its building. 1 The books are asked for by a special form of order slip which bears the current number of orders given by the one library to the other during the year. The title must be as correct as possible. As a rule, letters and parcels are sent through the Imperial Mail : c frei durch Ablosung ' by the State institutions, post paid by the others ; they are only insured if one of the libraries has special reasons for doing so. All ordinary expenses are paid by the library where they occur. The reader must pay 20 Pfennige for each volume received (only 10 Pfennige, if he fre- quents one of the eleven libraries often mentioned where he has to pay a semi-annual library fee of 2 J Mark) . The borrowing library keeps 5 Pfennige and gives 1 5 (or 5) Pfennige to the lending library, the accounts being balanced twice a year. Extra- ordinary expenses (if there are despatch-goods, telegrams, extra-fee letters, etc.) are paid by the frequenter, who must declare before hand that he is willing to do so. 2. OTHER SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS. Besides the Prussian Leihverkehr, special arrange- ments are made in Bavaria (since 1908 concerning the Hof- und Staatsbibliothek at Munich on the one side, the University Library and the Library 1 By the Royal Library at Berlin : if it is a volume containing several pamphlets, a newspaper, a book printed previous to 1600, or a book with etchings, etc.