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SEC. 103. In case a majority of the voters in any election
district shall petition the Board of County Commissioners to
establish a public library in said district, the said Board
shall establish and control such public library in the same
manner as the legislative authority of an incorporated mu-
nicipality may establish and control a library under this Act,
and said Board of County Commissioners may levy a tax on
the election district for the said library in like manner as is
done for the library of an incorporated municipality and to
the same amount, and said election district library shall be
managed in the same manner as the library of an incorporated
municipality.

SEC. 104. The legislative authority of any municipality
may levy a tax for public library purposes upon the assessed
valuation of the taxable property within said municipality,
not exceeding seven cents of each one hundred dollars, to be
collected in like manner as the other taxes of said municipal-
ity. The money so collected by the governing boards of the
incorporated municipalities shall be paid over to the trustees
or board of directors, to be appointed as hereinafter provided,
and shall be expended by them as in their judgment they may
deem best.

SEC. 105. Whenever any Board of County Commissioners
or legislative authority of an incorporated municipality shall
have determined to establish and maintain public libraries
and reading rooms under this Act, such Board of County Com-
missioners or legislative authority of an incorporated munici-
pality, shall appoint for such county, election district or in-
corporated municipality, a board of nine directors, who shall
be chosen at large with reference to their fitness for such
office; said directors shall hold office, one-third for two years,
one-third for four years, and one-third for six years, from
first of January following their appointment and until their
successors are chosen. At their first regular meeting they
shall cast lots for the their respective terms, and biennially
thereafter the Board of County Commissioners or legislative
authority of the municipality shall appoint as before three
directors to take the place of the retiring directors, who shall
hold office for six years and until their successors are ap-
pointed. The Board of County Commissioners or legislative
authority of the municipality may remove any directors for
inefficiency, misconduct or neglect of duty.

SEC. 106. Vacancies in the said board of directors occa-
sioned by removal, resignation or otherwise, shall be reported
to the Board of County Commissioners or legislative author-