PUBLIC EDUCATION 2957

Chapter 15. Public Libraries.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 167. 1912, sec. 99. 1904, sec. 94. 1888, sec. 87. 1872, ch. 377.

1904, ch. 584.

162. For the further encouragement of education, district libraries
ought to be established in each school house district under the care of the
teacher, as librarian; for this purpose the sum of ten dollars per annum is
ordered to be paid by the board of county school commissioners out of the
State school fund to any school house district as library money as long as
the people of the district raise the same amount annually; the books must
be selected by the board of district school trustees and teachers from a list
to be furnished by the state board of education.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 168. 1912, sec. 100. 1904, sec. 110. 1902, ch. 247, sec. 1. 1910, ch. 505,
sec. 95 (p. 221). 1922, ch. 29, sec. 100 (p. 55). 1939, ch. 323, sec. 168.

163. The Governor shall biennially appoint five persons, at least two
of whom shall be women, who, with the State Librarian and the Librarian
of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, shall constitute the Maryland Public
Library Advisory Commission, which is charged with the extension and
development of public library service throughout the State.
See art. 41, sec. 141.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 169. 1912, sec. 101. 1904, sec. 111. 1902, ch. 247, sec. 2. 1910, ch. 505,
sec. 96 (p. 221). 1922, ch. 29, sec. 101 (p. 55).

164. Said commission shall annually elect from their own number a
President and a Secretary, who, with the other members of the commission,
shall serve without pay, but the necessary traveling expenses of the Com-
missioners in attending upon the meetings of the commission or its business
away from their homes, may be paid out of any appropriation available
for the purpose. The secretary shall also act as treasurer of the commission
and shall give bond with approved security for the proper performance of
his duties. It shall be the duty of the Commission, from time to time, to
advise and counsel with and to aid the State Superintendent of Schools with
respect to the performance of his duties under Sections 163 to 181, inc.,
of this sub-title.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 170. 1912, sec. 102. 1904, sec. 112. 1902, ch. 247, sec. 3. 1910, ch. 505,
sec. 97 (p. 222). 1939, ch. 323, sec. 170.

165. Said commission shall give advice and counsel to all public li-
braries and public school libraries in the State and to all persons proposing
to establish them, as to the best means of their establishment and main-
tenance, the selection of books, cataloguing and other details of man-
agement. Said commission shall annually report to the governor in the
month of November, a full and complete account of its doings and of its
receipts and expenditures. Said commission is hereby granted power and
authority to accept on behalf of the State appropriations of money from
the Federal Government, or any agency thereof, made pursuant to the
provisions and purposes of any Act of Congress heretofore or hereafter
enacted, and especially from an Act of the Seventy-six Congress enacting
the provisions of H R 3517 or S. 1305, known as the "Federal Aid to
Education Act of 1939"; and the State of Maryland hereby expressly ac-
cepts the provisions of Title III of said Act as provided in Section 301
hereof.¹ Said commission is hereby vested with the power and authority to

¹ As in Act.