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the county or municipality, upon such terms and conditions
as said board may from time to time by its regulations pre-
scribe.

SEC. 110. Every person who shall steal or unlawfully take
or detain, or who shall mutilate, injure or disfigure by writ-
ing, marking, cutting, tearing or otherwise, any book, map,
picture, engraving, manuscript or other property of any pub-
lic library or circulating library, or library belonging to the
State of Maryland, or to any municipality or public body or
incorporated institution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one
hundred dollars, said fine to be used for the benefit of the
library, or be imprisoned for not more than three months, or,
in the discretion of the Court, may be both fined and impris-
oned as aforesaid.

SEC. 111. Each library board established under this Act
shall make an annual report to the County Commissioners or
legislative authority of the municipality, or before the twen-
tieth day of January, stating the condition of their trust on
the first day of January in that year, the various sums of
money received from the library fund and from other sources,
and how such moneys have been expended and for what pur-
poses, the number of books and periodicals on hand, the num-
ber added by purchase, gift or otherwise during the year, the
number lost or missing, the number of books loaned out, and
the general character and kind of such books, with such other
statistics and information and suggestions as they may deem
of general interest. All such portion of said report as relates
to the receipts and expenditures of money shall be subject to
audit of the County Commissioners or legislative authority of
the municipality. A copy of said report shall be sent annually
to the Maryland Public Library Commission.

SEC. 112. The said Library Board may receive, hold and
possess, or sell and dispose of all such gifts, donations, de-
vises, bequests and legacies as they may be made to the
County Commissioners, to the municipality, or to the Library
Board, for the purpose of establishing, increasing or improv-
ing such public library. In such cases the Library Board
shall act as trustees, and have control of such gifts, dona-
tions, devises, bequests and legacies, and may apply the pro-
ceeds, interests, rents and profits accruing therefrom in such
manner as will best promote the prosperity and utility of
such library; provided, such application be according to the
terms of the gifts, donations, devises, bequests and legacies.

SEC. 113. Every public library established under this law
shall receive from the State « copy of the laws, journals and