The music libraries of the country to these poor societies are a blessing and are actually necessary, as they act as a clearing house, as, for instance, one society in St. Louis might wish to use a copyrighted work, such as Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, and if the various other societies in the neighborhood do not own copies of this particular work, it is necessary for a music library to be in existence that can furnish the work desired, and which at the time might be unobtainable from a sister society, or any society owning the work desired, as they might be using it at the time themselves, and there is absolutely no wrong in the renting of publications by these libraries of books which they have purchased, and they should not be prevented from renting them to the various societies for the reason that they have once been bought and paid for, and there can not be any profit derived therefrom by their renting it, as it has already been argued that it takes about five or six years to obtain the return of the cost of the publication, and that at the end of such time the books become useless from the handling they have received and have to be thrown away, as each society performs only one publication each year. The publishers themselves are among the largest customers of the music libraries, and have at various times arranged with the Tams Library to make at his own expense orchestrations to their various works, and hold them in stock, so as to have them available for the use of the publishers, so that if a customer of a publisher desired to purchase a large number of copies of any particular work that purchase would be contingent on the ability of the purchaser or publisher to obtain the orchestra parts (which are in manuscript), and publishers have been writing to their customers, after selling a lot of vocal scores, that they, the customers of the publishers, could obtain the orchestra parts to the various works desired at Tams's library, and we have letters from various publishers, Ditson, Schirmer, and others, to prove this, and the publishers themselves, in many instances, before selling one of their customers a particular work, would send to Tams's library and obtain from him the orchestra parts to send to accompany the goods sold, and in many instances had notified Tams that they proposed to sell a particular work and desired to know if he wished to furnish the orchestra parts to the same.