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ity of the municipality, and shall be filled forthwith by them
for the unexpired portion of the term.

SEC. 107. Said directors shall, immediately after their ap-
pointment, meet at the call of the County Commissioners or
legislative authority of the municipality, and organize by the
election of a president and vice-president from their own
number, and a person or persons to act as secretary and treas-
urer. The treasurer so elected shall give bond for the faithful
performance of his trust in such sum as said library board
shall determine; the said bond to be approved by the said
library board, and the expense thereof paid out of the library
fund. Directors shall receive no compensation. They shall
make and adopt by-laws, rules and regulations not inconsist-
ent with this Act, for their own guidance and for the govern-
ment of the libraries and reading rooms. They shall have
exclusive control of the expenditures of all moneys collected
to the credit of the library fund under this Act, but such
expenditures and all contracts made by them shall not exceed
the appropriations provided and made under Section 3 and
4 of this Act. They shall also have control of the construction
of any library building, and of the supervision, care and cus-
tody of the library grounds, rooms or buildings constructed
or set apart for that purpose; and they shall have power to
purchase or lease grounds, to occupy, lease or erect an appro-
priate building or buildings for the use of said library, to
appoint a suitable librarian and assistants, to fix the compen-
sation of such appointees, and to remove them if unsatisfac-
tory, and shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of
this Act in establishing and maintaining public libraries and
reading rooms.

SEC. 108. All moneys collected for such libraries and read-
ing rooms by the County Commissioners or governing boards
of incorporated municipalities as hereinabove provided, shall
be deposited in the treasury of said county or of the said mu-
nicipality, respectively, to the credit of the library fund, and
shall be kept separate and apart from other moneys of such
county or municipality, and paid over to the treasurer of the
library board upon the demand of the board.

SEC. 109. Every library and reading room established un-
der this Act shall be forever free to the use of the inhabitants
of the county, election district or municipality where it is
located; subject, however, to such reasonable rules and regu-
lations as the library board may adopt, and said board may
exclude from the use of said libraries and reading rooms any
and all persons who shall wilfully violate such rules, and may
extend the privilege of said library to persons living outside of