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widening, straightening or closing of any street, lane or alley
in the City of Baltimore, unless the signers of such petition or
remonstrance shall state the location of the property they rep-
resent, together with the number of front feet of the same.

Division Embracing Municipal Officers not Included in any Depart-
ment.

196. City Librarian.—There shall be an official of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, to be known as the City
Librarian. He shall be appointed by the Mayor in the man-
ner prescribed in section 25 of this Article and hold his office
as therein provided. The said Librarian shall, under the super-
vision and direction of the City Register, take under his charge
and keeping all the books and documents of every description,
and the archives, records, papers and proceedings of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, except as is otherwise herein
provided, now in the possession of other municipal officers,
entrusted with them by the City, or which may hereafter come
into the possession of the City, and also all the ordinances, reso-
lutions, and proceedings of the City Council after each and
every session thereof; and he shall arrange and classify, so as to
be easily found when needed, all the books, documents, records,
papers, ordinances and resolutions, and proceedings hereby
placed and hereafter to come under his charge and keeping; and
he shall furthermore carefully collect and arrange and safely
keep a complete series of ordinances and resolutions and pro-
ceedings of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and all
other books, papers and memorials relating to Baltimore, from
its beginning as a town to the present time, and this shall con-
tinue to be one of his regular duties, and he shall not permit any
book or books, or documents of said series to be taken or
removed by any one from the City Library, and he shall permit
no other book, document, record or paper of any sort to be
taken from the City Library, except by City officers, and then
only on a written receipt from such City officer or officers for the
same, which receipt shall be written in a book to be kept for that
purpose, and shall be duly cancelled on the return of the book,
documents, records or papers so borrowed ; and he shall see
that no books, documents, records or papers of any sort be lost