Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-02-17

and who shall hold office until their sue
ceSsOrs are respectively elected and quail
fed as provided in the second following
section.
SEC. II. The secretary of state
shall forthwith, upon the filing of such
statement in his office issue to the in
corporators under his hand and seal
certificate of which such statement shall
be part, declaring that the organization
of the corporation is perfected. The in
corporators shall forthwith cause such
certificate to be recorded in the office of
the county clerk of the county in which
such library is to be located; and there
upon the corporation shall be deemed
fully organized and may proceed to carry
out it's corporate purposes, and receive
by conveyance from the trustees the prop
erty provided for the endowment of such
library, and may hold the same in what
ever form it may have been received or
conveyed by said trustees, until such form
shall be changed by action of such cor
poratiOn.
Sec IS. An organization formed
under the two preceding sections shall be
a body corporate and polite, to be known
by the name stated in its certificate or
articles of Incorporation; and, by such
corporate name, it shall have and possess
the ordinary rights and Incidents OF a
corporation, and shall be capable of TAX
ing, holding and disposing of real and per-
sOnal estate for the purposes of its Organi-
ZatiOn. The provisions of a will, deed or
other instrument by which an endowment
of a library is provided and accepted by
the trustees, managers or directors shall,
as to such endowment be a part of the
organic and fundamental law of such
corporation.
SEC. 49, The trustees, managers
or directors of such corporation shall COM
pose its members and shall not be more
than nine nor less than five in number.
Said trustees managers or directors shall
elect the officers of the corporation from
their number and have control and man
agement of the affairs and property of the
same, may accept donations, and in their
discretion, hold the same in the form in
which they are given for the purposes of
science, literature and art germane to the
objects and purposes OF such corporation.
They may fill, by election, subject to the
approval of the chief judge of the supreme
court, vacancies occurring in their number,
and may make bylaws for the manage
ment of such corporation and library,
which bylaws shall set forth the officers
scribe their respective duties. They may
appoint and employ from time to time
agents and employees as they may deem
, necessary for the efficient administration
= and conduct of the library and the other
r affairs of such corporation. Whenever
: a trustee, manager or director is elected
to fill vacancy, a certificate under the
seal OF the gyng the
!, in the office of the county clerk where
the articles of incorporation are recorded
f SEC. TO- Whenever the instru
: ment providing the endowment declare.
r that the institution shall be free public
: library, such library and other property
: of the corporation shall be forever exempt
+, from taxation.
r Sec. Fl, A town, Incorporated vii
: lage or city may establish and maintain
public libraries, with or without branches
J., for the use of its inhabitants, and may
e annually contract with a library or hbrar!
4 association Incorporated under the genera
| law or by special act of the general as
f sembly, to furnish books to its inhabitants
: free, and may appropriate money therefor
e and may annually appropriate money fo
n the maintenance, care, increase and sup
4 port of library held in trust for sucl
e town, incorporated village or city, or thu
j inhabitants thereof.
Il SEC. %. A town, Incorporated vii
o lage or city establishing and maintaining
S a library may appropriate for suitable
e rooms and buildings and for the founda
: ton of such library a sum not exceedin!
d three dollars for each ratable poll in sucl
ICIAL PROCEEDINGS.