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failing, a Burgeſs's son of any other name; whom failing, any other qualified Student; to remain in the ſaid office four years only, being always found apt and qualified by the Rector, Principal, Dean of Faculty, and Regents, to whom the preſentation shall be directed. That after their condign trial, of the qualifications and aptitude of the ſaid Student to that charge, he may be admitted by them thereto during the ſpace aforesaid. He being obliged, at his admiſſion and reception, to that office, to commemorate this preſent foundation in theſe words following, "Ego A. B. ſancté polliceor et juro me bibliothecarii munus in Collegio Glaſguenſi, opibus et liberalitate Georgii et Thomae Hutchiſonorum fratrum a Lambhill fundatum, integre et sideliter adminiſtraturum." The annual produce of this ſum being afterwards found inadequate to the office, the College, out of their own funds, raiſed the Library keeper's ſalary to 400 merks yearly, upon an agreement with the Town Council, that the Magiſtrates and Town Council on the one part, and the College on the other, ſhould have the right of preſentation alternately, each for four years; and thus the matter ſtands at preſent. The Univerſity's Library is now increased to ſuch a ſize, in the number and value of the books, that four
