JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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said city cast at some time and place to be fixed by said ordi-
nance in a provision for submitting the same to the legal
voters of said city, as required by section 7 of Article 11 of
the Constitution of this State.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to promote the establishment and efficiency of
Free Public Libraries and Public School Libraries in the
Sfate of Maryland.

<JHAI>. 247.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Governor shall biennially appoint four
persons, at least two of whom shall be women, who, with the
State Librarian, Superintendent of Public Instruction and
Librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library shall constitute a
State Library Commission.

State Library
Commission.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said commission shall
annually elect from their own number a president and secre-
tary, who, with the other members of the commission, shall
serve without pay, but the necessary traveling expenses of
the commissioners in attending upon the meetings of the
commission or its business away from their homes may be
paid out of the fund hereby appropriated. The secretary
shall also act as treasurer of the commission, and all its monies
shall be deposited in a national bank to be designated by the
commission and shall be drawn only by order of the commis-
sion, and upon the ioint check of the president and secretary.

President
and secretary
appointed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That paid commission shall give,
advise and consent to all free librarians and public school
libraries in the State and to all committees proposing to estab-
lish them, as to the best means of their establishments and
maintenance, the selection of books, cataloguing and other
details of management. The commission may also send its
members to aid in organizing new libraries or improving any
already established ; and said commission shall annually report
to the Governor, in the month of December, a full and com-
plete account of its doings and of its receipts and expendi-
tures in detail.

Give advice
and consent.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That said commission shall, as
soon as practicable, organize and conduct traveling libraries'
throughout the State ; and in addition to the books given to
or bought by the commission for this purpose, they may use

Organize and
conduct
traveling
libraries.