ART. 77] PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 1745

lease grounds, to occupy, lease or erect an appropriate building or build-
ings for the use of said library, to appoint a suitable librarian and assist-
ants, to fix compensation of such appointees, and to remove them if
unsatisfactory, and shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of
sections 100 to 120 in establishing and maintaining public libraries and
reading rooms.

Ibid. sec. 101. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 7. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 8. 1910, ch. 505,
sec. 108 (p. 224).

113. All moneys collected for such libraries and reading rooms by
the county commissioners or governing boards of incorporated munici-
palities as hereinabove provided, shall be deposited in the treasury of
said county or of the said municipality, respectively, to the credit of the
library fund, and shall be kept separate and apart from other moneys
of such county or municipality, and paid over to the treasurer of the
library board upon the demand of the board.

Ibid. sec. 102. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 8. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 9. 1910, ch. 505,
sec. 109 (p. 224).

114. Every library and reading room established under sections
100 to 120 shall be forever free to the use of the inhabitants of the
county, election district or municipality where it is located; subject,
however, to such reasonable rules and regulations as the library board
may adopt, and said board may exclude from the use of said libraries
and reading rooms any and all persons who shall wilfully violate such
rules, and may extend the privilege of said library to persons living out-
side of the county or municipality, upon such terms and conditions as
said board may from time to time by its regulations prescribe.

1910, ch. 505, sec. 110 (p. 225).

115. Every person who shall steal or unlawfully take or detain, or
who shall mutilate, injure or disfigure by writing, marking, cutting,
tearing or otherwise, any book, map, picture, engraving, manuscript or
other property of any public library or circulating library, or library
belonging to the State of Maryland, or to any municipality or public
body or incorporated institution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars,
said fine to be used for the benefit of the library, or be imprisoned for
not more than three months, or, in the discretion of the court, may be
both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid.

1904. art. 77, sec. 103. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 9. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 10. 1910, ch. 505,

sec. 111 (p. 225).

116. Each library board established under sections 100 to 120 shall
make an annual report to the county commissioners or legislative author-
ity of the municipality, or before the twentieth day of January, stat-
ing the condition of their trust on the first day of January in that year,
the various sums of money received from the library fund and from
other sources, and how such moneys have been expended and for what