1744 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

1904, art. 77, sec. 98. 1898, ch. 515, secs. 3, 4. 1902, ch. 307, sec. 5.
1910, ch. 505, sec. 105 (p. 223).

110. Whenever any board of county commissioners or legislative
authority of an incorporated municipality shall have determined to estab-
lish and maintain public libraries and reading rooms under sections 100
to 120, such board of county commissioners or legislative authority of
an incorporated municipality, shall appoint for such county, election dis-
trict or incorporated municipality, a board of nine directors, who shall
be chosen at large with reference to their fitness for such office; said
directors shall hold office, one-third for two years, one-third for four
years and one-third for six years, from first of January following their
appointment and until their successors are chosen. At their first regu-
lar meeting they shall cast lots for their respective terms, and biennially
thereafter the board of county commissioners or legislative authority
of the municipality shall appoint as before three directors to take the
place of the retiring directors, who shall hold office for six years and
until their successors are appointed. The board of county commis-
sioners or legislative authority of the municipality may remove any
directors for inefficiency, misconduct or neglect of duty.

Ibid. sec. 99. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 5. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 6.
1910, ch. 505, sec. 106 (p. 223).

111. Vacancies in the said board of directors occasioned by removal,
resignation or otherwise, shall be reported to the board of county com-
missioners or legislative authority of the municipality, and shall be
filled forthwith by them for the unexpired portion of the term.

Ibid. sec. 100. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 6. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 7. 1910, ch. 505,
sec. 107 (p. 224).

112. Said directors shall, immediately after their appointment,
meet at the call of the county commissioners or legislative authority of
the municipality, and organize by the election of a president and vice-
president from their own number, and a person or persons to act as sec-
retary and treasurer. The treasurer so elected shall give bond for the
faithful performance of his trust in such sum as said library board shall
determine; the said bond to be approved by the said library board, and
the expense thereof paid out of the library fund. Directors shall receive
no compensation. They shall make and adopt by-laws, rules and regula-
tions not inconsistent with sections 100 to 120, for their own guidance and
for the government of the libraries and reading rooms. They shall have
exclusive control of the expenditures of all moneys collected to the credit
of the library fund under sections 100 to 120, but such expenditures and
all contracts made by them shall not exceed the appropriations provided
and made under sections 3 and 4 of this act.* They shall also have con-
trol of the construction of any library building, and of the supervision,
care and custody of the library grounds, rooms or buildings constructed
or set apart for that purpose; and they shall have power to purchase or

*The reference to sections "3 and 4 of this act" is evidently a typographical"
error; sections 108 and 109 (of this article) are probably intended to be referred
to, they being sections 103 and 104 of the act of 1910, ch. 505.