[1] Those allowed to take books from the building are: the President; Vice-President; Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress; Cabinet Officials; the Justices, Reporter, and Clerk of the Supreme Court; the Judges and Clerks of the Courts of the United States in the District of Columbia; representatives in Washington of foreign governments; the Solicitor General and Assistant Attorneys-General; the Secretary of the Senate; the Clerk of the House of Representatives; the Solicitor of the Treasury; the Disbursing Agent of the Committee on the Library; former Presidents of the United States; the Chaplains of the two Houses of Congress; the Secretary and Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; the Members and Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission; and the Chief of Engineers of the Army. No one, however, not even these officials, may take away any manuscript or map, or any book of special value and rarity. Books are delivered to the order of any of the persons having the special privileges of the Library, but only for their own use. They have no authority to give an order in favor of another person. Previous to the erection of the new building, one of the rules of the Library had permitted the Librarian, at his discretion, to issue books to the public generally, for home use, on the deposit of a sum of money sufficient to cover the value of the volume applied for, but this provision was found to be an embarrassment and has since been abolished. [2] The list of the previous Librarians of Congress, with the dates when they were appointed, is as follows: John Beckley, 1802; Patrick Magruder, 1807; George Watterston, 1815; John S. Meehan, 1829; John G. Stephenson, 1861. [3] Such as _Races and Peoples_, by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton. [4] The three groups are reproduced as headpieces to the three portions of this Handbook: the first, representing _Literature_, to introduce the present general description; that representing _Art_, over Mr. Caffin’s essay; and the third, representing _Science_, over Mr. Spofford’s. [5] Mr. W. C. Brownell, in _Scribner’s Monthly_. [6] The panel of _The Family_ is shown in the view of the North Corridor, given on the opposite page. The border referred to a few lines below is reproduced in the Handbook on Page 21, as a heading to the present description of the Main Entrance Hall.