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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 regular meeting they shall cast lots for
their respective terms, and biennially thereafter the board of county com-
missioners 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 commissioners or legislative authority of the municipality may
remove any directors for inefficiency, misconduct or neglect of duty.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 179. 1912, sec. 111. 1904, sec. 99. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 5. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 6. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 106 (p. 223).

173. 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 180. 1912, sec. 112. 1904, sec. 100. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 6. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 7. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 107 (p. 224).

174. 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 secretary and
treasurer. The treasurer so elected shall give bond for the faithful perform-
ance 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 regulations not inconsistent with
sections 163 to 181, 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 163 to 181, 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.¹ They shall also have control 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 lease grounds, to occupy, lease or
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 163 to 181 in establishing and main-
taining public libraries and reading rooms.

An Code, 1924, sec. 181. 1912, sec. 113. 1904, sec. 101. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 7. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 8. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 108 (p. 224).

175. 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,

¹ The reference to secs. "3 and 4 of this act" is evidently a typographical error; secs.
170 and 171 (of this article) are probably intended to be referred to, they being secs. 103
and 104 of act of 1910, ch. 505.