Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-02-04
LIBRARY PROPOSITION.

LIBRARY PROPOSITION.
TsIImsn Offers City Of wilmer the
Old Muller Lot ut The Opera
House for library Site.
An adjourned meeting of the city
council was held Monday evening to
consider the library proposition. All
the members were present. The fol-
lowing communications were read and
placed on file:
D. N. Tallman, Esq, =
Willmar, MINI.
Dear Sir:-Responding to your com
munications in behalf of Willmar, if
the city agree by resolution of the
council to maintain q free public Ii
brary at cost of not less than one
thousand dollars a year, and provide
q suitable site for the building, Mr..
Carnegie will be glad to furnish ten
thousand dollars to erect free public
library building for Willmar.
Respectfully yours,
JAS. BERTRAM,
Private Secretary.
To- the Honorable City Council of
the City of Willmar:
Whereas Andrew Carnegie has Of
fered to donate to the city the sum of
SIC, 600 for the establishment of q pub
lie library upon the condition that the
site be procured for the same and that
| the faith and credit of the city be
pledged for the maintenance of the
said library in q sum not less than
81 900 per year, We, the undersigned
residents and citizens of the City of
Willmar, respectfully urge you to
take such steps as may be necessary
to obtain from the said Andrew Car
| negie the establishment of the said liz
brary in the sum of not less than 81 600
per year.
with signatures of 1872 residents.)
Willmar, Minn., Feb. 3, 1908.
TO the City Council of Willmar:
| I, David N. Tallman, the subscriber
hereto, do hereby agree to purchase
and deliver by good title the east 100
feet of lot 3, block AZ in the City, for
merly town and village of Willmar,
according to the recorded plat thereof
of record and on file in the Office of
the Register of Deeds in and for Kan.
diyohi county, in the event that the
said City of Willmar shall elect to
accept said described property as the
site for the free public library build
idg which Andrew Carnegie is to do
nate zz.Szzsszs*s D. N. TALLMAN.
Hon. George ": e ler, ssssszss szs=e - =
Mayor of the City of Willmar:
In reply to your inquiry as to
whether the city council have the pow
er and authority to pledge the faith
and credit of the city for the purpose
! OF supporting and maintaining a pub
lie library such as intended to be Of
fered by Hon. Andrew Carnegie, I
would say that it is my opinion that
the city council has such authority,
and I base this opinion upon Chapter
SO of the General Laws of 1901. This
act provides for just such An emergen.
cy as is now presented to the council,
and provides that whenever any such
offer is made to the city, as has been
made by Andrew Carnegie, the city
council by ordinance may pledge the
faith and credit of the city to support
and maintain such library to an an
} nual tax of not exceeding one and
one-half mills upon the taxable prop
erty of the city.
Yours respectfully,
SAMUEL PORTER,
City Attorney.
Alderman Markhus offered the fol-
lowing ordinance:
An Ordinance Obligating the Faith
and Credit of the City of Willmar
to Levy Money for the Purpose of
Supporting Public Library.
Whereas, Andrew Carnegie has Of
fered to give and donate ten thousand
dollars (S10, ,00o) to erect a free public
library building provided that the
city of Willmar gives site and pass
es an ordinance obligating itself to
support a library at cost of not less
, than one thousand dollars S1,OOO)
year; and
Whereas, site for said public IL
brary building has been secured by
the city Of Willmar, being ihe east
one hundred feet of lot three, of block
forty-two of the town (now city, of
Willmar, according to the recorded
plat thereof. -
Now therefore, be it ordained by
the city of Willmar as follows. 4
| Section l. That the common com
) Gil of the city of Willmar does hereby
) pledge the said city and the common
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