222 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Commission and shall give bond with approved security for the
the proper performance of his duties.

SEC. 97. Said Commission shall give advice and counsel to
all public libraries and public school libraries in the State and
to all persons proposing to establish them, as to the best means
of their establishment and maintenance, the selection of books,
cataloguing and other details of management. Said Commis-
sion shall annually report to the Governor in the month of
November, a full and complete account of its doings and of its
receipts and expenditures.

SEC. 98. Said Commission shall organize and conduct trav-
eling libraries throughout the State, shall formulate such rea-
sonable degulations for the use and care of the books of such
traveling libraries as they may deem proper; and shall from
time to time send out and distribute such books throughout
the State, and at suitable intervals change such distributions
so as to secure the greatest advantage.

SEC. 99. The State Treasurer shall annually on the first
day of October pay to the treasurer of the Commission the sum
of fifteen hundred dollars for the use of the Commission.

SEC. 100. Said Commission, upon application of the library
directors of a county, municipality or election district which
has complied with the provisions of this law relative to the es-
tablishment of such library may expend not more than one
hundred dollars for books, to be selected and purchased by said
Commission and delivered to said directors for the purpose of
establishing a free public library.

SEC. 101. The Boards of County Commissioners shall have
power to establish and maintain central free public libraries at
all the county seats of their respective counties, with branches
in such places within the limits of said counties as the demand
of the people of the vicinity may justify, so as to give them
convenient access to the free libraries and reading rooms, and
the legislative authority of any incorporated municipality shall
have power to establish public libraries in like manner for said
municipality.

SEC. 102. The Board of County Commissioners of any coun-
ty in the State, for the establishment and maintenance of said
free public libraries and reading rooms in their respective
counties, may levy an annual tax not exceeding five cents on
each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of taxable
property; such tax to be levied and collected in like manner as
other general taxes of said county, and when collected to be
known as the public library fund.