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erect an appropriate building or buildings for the use of said library, to
appoint a suitable librarian and assistants, to fix compensation of such
appointees, and to remove them if unsatisfactory, and shall in general carry
out the spirit and intent of sections 168 to 187 in establishing and main-
taining public libraries and reading rooms.

An. Code, sec. 113. 1904, sec. 101. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 7. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 8.
1910, ch. 505, sec. 108 (p. 224).

181. All moneys collected for such libraries and reading rooms by the
county commissioners or governing boards of incorporated municipalities
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.

An. Code, sec. 114. 1904, sec. 102. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 8. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 9.
1910, ch. 505, sec. 109 (p. 224).

182. Every library and reading room established under sections 168
to 187 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 outside of the county or
municipality, upon such terms and conditions as said board may from time
to time by its regulations prescribe.

An. Code, sec. 115. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 110 (p. 225).

183. 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.

An. Code, sec. 116. 1904, sec. 103. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 9. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 10.
1910, ch. 505, sec.111(p. 225).

184. Each library board established under sections 168 to 187 shall
make an annual report to the county commissioners or legislative authority
of the municipality, or before the twentieth day of January, stating 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 purposes, the number of
books and periodicals on hand, the number added by purchase, gift or other-
wise during the year, the number lost or missing, the number of books