PUBLIC EDUCATION 2959

An. Code, 1924, sec. 174. 1912, sec. 106. 1904, secs. 95 and 96. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 1. 1902,
ch. 367, secs. 1, 2, 3. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 101 (p. 222).

168. The boards of county commissioners shall have power to establish
and maintain central free public libraries at all the county seats of their
respective counties, with branches in such places within the limits of said
counties as the demand of the people of the vicinity may justify, so as to
give them convenient access to the free libraries and reading rooms, and
the legislative authority of any incorporated municipality shall have power
to establish public libraries in like manner for said municipality.
Cited but not construed in Johnson v. Baltimore, 158 Md. 104.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 175. 1912, sec. 107. 1904, sec. 95. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 1. 1902, ch. 367,
secs. 1, 2. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 102 (p. 222).

169. The board of county commissioners of any county in the State,
for the establishment and maintenance of said free public libraries and
reading rooms in their respective counties, may levy an annual tax not
exceeding five cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation
of taxable property; such tax to be levied and collected in like manner as
other general taxes of said county, and when collected to be known as the
public library fund.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 176. 1912, sec. 108. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 103 (p. 223).

170. In case a majority of the voters in any election district shall
petition the board of county commissioners to establish a public library
in said district, the said board shall establish and control such public library
in the same manner as the legislative authority of an incorporated munici-
pality may establish and control a library under sections 163 to 181, and
said board of county commissioners may levy a tax on the election district
for the said library in like manner as is done for the library of an incor-
porated municipality and to the same amount, and said election district
library shall be managed in the same manner as the library of an incor-
porated municipality.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 177. 1912, sec. 109. 1904, sec. 97. 1902, ch. 367, sec. 4. 1910, ch. 505,

sec. 104 (p. 223).

171. The legislative authority of any municipality may levy a tax for
public library purposes upon the assessed valuation of the taxable property
within said municipality, not exceeding seven cents of each one hundred
dollars, to be collected in like manner as the other taxes of said municipality.
The money so collected by the governing boards of the incorporated munic-
ipalities shall be paid over to the trustees or board of directors, to be
appointed as hereinafter provided, and shall be expended by them as in
their judgment they may deem best.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 178. 1912, sec. 110. 1904, sec. 98. 1898, ch. 515, secs. 3, 4. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 5. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 105 (p. 223).

172. Whenever any board of county commissioners or legislative
authority of an incorporated municipality shall have determined to establish
and maintain public libraries and reading rooms under sections 163 to 181,
such board of county commissioners or legislative authority of an incor-
porated municipality, shall appoint for such county, election district 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