Smyrna times., 1901-04-10

Quoted as in the election of regular
town officials.
SECTION 12. The first meeting of
the Town Library Commission shall
be on the evening of the Tuesday next
succeeding the election of its members.
The Commission shall organize bv
electlng from its members a chairman
and secretary. The Town Treasurer
shall be the treasurer of said Commits
sion, and shall be subject to all orders
OF said Commission relative to moneys
IN his hands of which the said Com
mission has custody as provided in this
Act, and out of said moneys shall paw
all bills directed to be paid by said
Commission. The official bond of said
town treasurer shall be held and
deemed. to cover and include all such
moneys and the due and proper ac-
counting therefor. A vacancy in said
Commission caused by refusal to act,
death, resignation, or otherwise. shall
be filled by said Commission until the
regular town election next sue
ceedlng. A failure to attend three
meetings of said Commission success
sion, shall, in the option of said Com
mission, be deemed a vacancy.
SECTION 10. The Town Library
Commission so selected as aforesaid,
shall have the entire custody and man
agement of the library and all property
owned or leased, or donated relating
thereto, and all money raised by the
town, or donated for its establishment
and maintenance, or paid by the State
Treasurer as hereinafter provided,
shall be placed in the care and custody
OF said Commission, to be expended or
retained by said Commission for and
In behalf of the town forthe foundation
and establishment and for the main
tenance and increase of its free public
library.
The Commission shall make an ex-
plicit report to the town at each an
nual town meeting of all its receipts
and expenditures, and of all the prop
erty of the town in its care and Gus
tOdy, including a statement of any un-
expended balance of money, and of
any bequests or donations in behalf of
the town, and of any sum or sums re-
ceived from the State as hereinafter
provided, with such recommend atoms
with reference to the same as is deemed
necessary for the town to consider.
The said Commission shall also make
report and recommendation concern
ing the amount of money deemed
necessary and proper by said Commits
sion to be raised by taxation for any
one year for said library, to the town
council after the selection of said Com
mission as aforesaid and prior to the
fixing of the rate of taxation for said
purpose by said town council.
The said Town Library Commission
shall also make such reports, at such
times and embracing such matters to
the State Library Commission created
by this Act as the said State Library
Commission shall order and direct.
The said Town Library Commission
shall also have the power to procure
by purchase, lease or acceptance of a
gift or donation, a room or rooms for
said library, and to fit or furnish the
same for a library, or a library and
| reading room, to provide for the heat
and light In the same, and the care
thereof; to purchase or accept dOna-
tions or gifts of books, magazines,
newspapers and reviews; to employ a
| librarian or librarians, and custodian
aud care-taker, and shall have further
and additional powers in the premises
as are, or may be deemed necessary for
the foundation and establishment, and
the support and maintenance of Ii
brary or library and reading room.
The said Commission shall also have
the power to make such rules and reg
ulations for the conduct of the persons
employed by it, and for the care and
use of the books, newspapers, maga-
zines and reviews in said library by
! the inhabitants of said town, or other
persons having authority to use said
! library, and also concerning the con-
duct and department of all persons
while in or about said library or Ii
brary and reading room; as said Com
mission shall or may from time to
time deem proper and advisable; pro-
vided no fee for the use of said library
or library aud reading room, or the
contents thereof, shall be charged to
any inhabitant of said town, or to any
| person not al inhabitant thereof who
owns assessable real estate in said
town. The rules and regulations so
made by said Commission shall be en-
forceable by penalty which the Com
mission is hereby authorized to i'm
pose; such penalty shall consist either
of suspension for limited period not
exceeding six months, from the priv
ileges of said library or library and
reading room and the contents thereof,
or by money fine. All money fines
imposed as aforesaid may be collected
by proceedings instituted in the cor
porate name of the town before the al
derman of any such town or any JUS
tice of the peace residing therein, and
iuris diction to hear and finally deter
mine all such proceedings is hereby ex-
pressly conferred upon any aud all
snch alderman or resident justices OF
the peace The process, mode of pro-
ceeding and rending of judgment shall
be as now is, or hereafter may be, pro-
vided by law for the collection of fines
imposed by the ordinances as pre-.
, scribed in the charter of such town.
: All fines so collected shall be paid tc
| the town and by it paid over to the
Town Library Commission to be used
, as other money of which it has the
custody and care as hereinbefore pro
| vided