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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Trustees of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Balti-

more city," and they and their successors are hereby

constituted and appointed a body politic and corpo-

rate by the name of the " Enoch Pratt Free Library

of Baltimore city " with power, and are required to

Fill vacancies.

till any vacancies in said board occurring by resig-

nation, disability or otherwise, and to perpetuate

their succession and to do all necessary things for

the control and management of said library and its

branches, and to perform the duties imposed on

them by this act, and to receive from said Mayor

and City Council of Baltimore said sum of fifty

thousand dollars per annum as aforesaid, and expend

the same for the purposes of said library in such

manner as they shall think proper, and to make all

necessary by-laws and regulations for the govern-

ment and administration of said trust, and for the

appointment of the necessary officers and agents,

provided that none but citizens of Maryland actu-

ally residing in the city of Baltimore shall be ap-

pointed or elected as members of said board, and

provided further, that none of the successors of said

board, or any officer thereof, shall be appointed or

removed on political or religious grounds; and said

Remove trus-

tees

board shall have power to remove any trustee who

shall fail for six months to attend the meetings of

said board; said trustees shall make an annual

report to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

of their proceedings and of the condition of said

library and its branches, with a full account of the

moneys received and expended by them.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall

be the duty of the Mayor and City Council of Bal-

timore to appoint a visitor, who shall, as often as

once a year, examine the books and accounts of said

trustees and make a report thereof to the Mayor

Appoint vis-
itor.

and City Council of Baltimore, and said Mayor and

City Council shall, in case of any abuse of their

powers by said trustees or their successors, have the

right to resort to the proper courts to enforce the

performance of the trust hereby imposed on them.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said real

estate and personal property vested in said Mayor

and City Council by virtue of this act, and to be-

come so by future purchase under the provisions

thereof, and the fund and franchises of " The Enoch