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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, 1924, sec. 182. 1912, sec. 114. 1904, sec. 102. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 8. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 9. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 109 (p. 224).

176. Every library and reading room established under sections 163
to 181 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, 1924, sec. 183. 1912, sec. 115. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 110 (p. 225).

177. 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, 1924, sec. 184. 1912, see. 116. 1904, sec. 103. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 9. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 10. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 111 (p. 225).

178. Each library board established under sections 163 to 181 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
loaned out, and the general character and kind of such books, with such
other statistics and information and suggestions as they may deem of general
interest. All such portion of said report as relates to the receipts and
expenditures of money shall be subject to audit of the county commissioners
or legislative authority of the municipality. A copy of said report shall be
sent annually to the Maryland public library commission.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 185. 1912, sec. 117. 1904, sec. 104. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 11. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 11. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 112 (p. 225).

179. The said library board may receive, hold and possess, or sell and
dispose of all such gifts, donations, devises, bequests and legacies as they
may be made to the county commissioners, to the municipality, or to the
library board, for the purpose of establishing, increasing or improving
such public library. In such cases the library board shall act as trustees,
and have control of such gifts, donations, devises, bequests and legacies,
and may apply the proceeds, interests, rents and profits accruing therefrom