Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-04-19
CHAPTER Al.

AN ACT to provide for the establishment
and maintenance of free public libra
ries in cities and incorporated towns
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Iowa, The
Council of any city or incorporated town
in this State may raise and appropriate
money not exceeding in amount one mill
upon the dollar OF the assessed valuation
of the taxable property Of such city or
Incorporated town, i'll any one year, to
procure books, maps, charts, periodicals
and other publications for the establish
mcnt and perpetual maintenance of free
public library within the limits of such
city or incorporated town.
And the Council of such city or incor-
porated town, out of the fund so raised,
may appropriate money for the purchase
Of such land and the erection of such
buildings as may be necessary for the
suitable accommodation thereof or for
the hiring or leasing of rooms for such
purpose, and for the compensation ofsuch
officers or agents as may be necessarily
employed in the establishment and man
agemcnt of such library.
Sec. 2. The Council Of any such city
or incorporated town accepting the pro-
visions of this act, may enact rules, by
laws and ordinances for the establishment
and maintenance Of such library, provide
for the election or appointment Of officers
and agents, and may assess and levy a
yearly tax for the support and mainten-
ance thereof not exceeding the amount
named in the first section Of this act.
SEC. 8. Every public library established
and maintained under the provisions of
this act, shall be open to the free use of
every inhabitant of the municipal cor
poration by which it is established, for
the general diffusion of intelligence
among all classes Of the community, SUBJ
iect to such rules and regulations tor the
well ordering and careful preservation
thereof as may be established and ordain-
cd by the Council of such city or incor-
pOratcd town.
Sec. 4. Any such city or incorporated
town may receive, hold, and possess, or
sell and dispose of any and all gifts,
donations, devises, requests and legacies
as may be made to such city or incOf-
porated town for the purpose of cstah-
fishing, increasing or improving any such
public library; and the city or town coun-
Gil thereof may apply the use, profits,
proceeds, interest, and rents accruing
therefrOm in such manner as will best
promote the prosperity and utility ofsuch
library.
Sec. Every city 0r incorporated town
in which such public library shall be
nc fub oh nd On1 M N fol nnd p,nIor N
provisions of this act, shall be entitled to
receive a copy of the laws, journals and
all other works published by authority of
the State after the establishment of such
library, for the use of such library, and
the Secretary of State is hereby author
lied and required to furnish the same from
year to year to such city Or Incorporated
town,
SEC. g. Any city or Incorporated town
of this State proposing 10 accept the
benefits of this act, shall, before cxercis-
ing the powers herein conferred, submit
to vote of the people at any municipal
election of such city. or. incorporated
town, the question, ''shall the city Tor
town council, as the case may beg accept
the benefit of an act of the Legislature
for the creation and maintenance of free
public library? 1,Yes--no."
SEC. 7. So much of chapter a.. Of the
acts or the Thirteenth General Assembly
As conflicts with this act is hereby repeal
ed. ~.. #
= Sec. 8. This act being deemed Of i'm
mediate Importance, shall take effect from
and after it publication in the Daily State
Register and State Leader, newspapers
published in Des Moincs.
Approved, March Goth, 1879.
hereby certify that the foregoing act
was published in the Daily Io,ca State
Register March 20 and in the Daily State
Leqdea March a2, fs7a,
ED WRIGHT,
Secretary Of State.