Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-06
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The LIrHGow LEGACY.

The following order received passage in
relation to the public library and reading
room. to be established in Augusta:
Be 1t ordained by the City Council Of the City
of augusta as fotiors
Sect. /. The management, care and con-
troll of the Public Library and Reading Room
founded by the liberal requests of the late
Llewellvn w. Lithgow. shall be vested in a
Board Of Trustees, which shall be constituted
as follows, viz: Said Board shall consist of
five members, of which number the Mayor of
the city shall, obfcio, be one and the rest
shall be appointed by the Mayor and Alder
men, and hold their offices for three years,
except that the Executors or Representatives
of the estate of said Lithgow may appoint one
of them. and that at the first election one of
the remaining three shall be elected for one
year, one for two years, and one for three
years. Vacancies in the Board may be filled
by the Mayor and Aldermen.
Sect. . Said Board of Trustees shall pre-
scribe the Rules and Regulations under which
said Library and Reading Room may be used,
and do all things needful to protect, prese rve
and take care of the same. They shall have
authority to use the income that shall accrue
| from the requests aforesaid, and such sums
as shall from time to time be appropriated by
the city for the purpose Of making the requi-
site lbI sdlI anu
Room. and in providing accommodations
therefor, and for any deficiency in the expense
of taking care of the same.
Sect. g. The city of Augusta consents to
| receive in trust, the twenty thousand dollars
already paid by said Lithgow's Executors to
| its Treasurer. and to pay therefor the interest
| thereon at the rate of five per cent per an
mum, in semi-annual payments, perpetually,
to said Board of Trustees, for the purpose
| aforesaid, under the provisions of chapter %
of the laws of 1872; and the Treasurer shall
| give the obligation of the city to said Board
! of Trustees to make such payments; and said
Board shall have the necessary power to en-
| force the same.
| Sect 4. The city will carry out the known
purpose of said Lthgow so far it may have
the power to do it, that all such sums as ii
| NAV hereafter receive from said estate shall
| be applied to the enlargement AMI sustaining
said Library and Reading Room or in provid'
| ing accommodations therefor.
ORDERS.
| The following orders received passage :
That the Street Commissioners for the
eastern district be authorized to lease or pur-
chased some suitable place where gravel can
| be got for the of the city.
| That the Committee on Fire Department be
authorized to purchase one thousand feet oi
hose for the use of the fire department, the
same to he paid out of next years funds.
That Hiram Choate have permission to use
one-thiri of the width of Kendall street, for
the next 90 days, for the purpose of erecting
buildings bordering on the north side OF said
| street.
That the City Clerk be instructed to con
vev to the Trustees of the Conv Female
| Academy the thanks of the Mayor and
| Board of Alderman, in behalf of the cit
zens of Augusta, for the surrender for y.
wears to the city of Augusta. the use OF the
beautiful and costly Cony High School build
ing. in which the city is to maintain free
high school, erected by the trustees as q
tribute to the sterling worth and public spirit
of the founder.
| PETITIONS.
Petition of J. p. Wyman and Others for
sidewalk on the ives: side of State street
from point near its junction with Laure
| street. thence northerly to connect with waib
ON the east side'of Mt Vernon avenue. Read
and referred to the next city council
Petition of II. w. True and others for
street lamp at the junction of Elm and Bridge
streets. Read, and referred to COMMITTED
on Street Lamps.