Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Public Library, Volumes 1-14Lakeside, 1873 |
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accessions American amount ANNUAL REPORT April Astor Library binding Board of Directors Board of Education book-borrowers Boston Public Library cards cash catalogue cent Chicago Public Library Cincinnati circulation of books City Council City of Chicago classes collected Committee copies daily average donated English prose fiction expenses Fiction and Juveniles Finding Lists Free Library Free Public Library Herald Historical Society History Illinois increase Institute issued John Journal JULIUS ROSENTHAL June juvenile books Librarian Library and Reading Library Association Library Fund Literature LOEWENTHAL London Louis Magazine Mass Mercantile Library Messrs months Newspapers and Periodicals number of books number of visitors number of volumes ONAHAN pamphlets Peabody Institute persons Philadelphia Poetry and Drama purchased reading room receipts received reference department Register Review Royal Scandinavian Literature Science Secretary shelves statistics Thomas Hoyne tion U. S. Naval Observatory United Vols W. B. WICKERSHAM Weekly William WILLIAM F York City Young Men's
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Page 5 - if the majority of all the votes cast in such town, village, or township, shall be " for the tax for a free public library," the tax specified in such notice shall be levied and collected in like manner with other general taxes of said town or township, and shall be known as the "library fund
Page 4 - SKC. 8. The city council of said city shall have power to pass ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of persons committing injury upon such library, or the grounds, or other property thereof, or for injury to or failure to return any book belonging to such library. SEC. 9. Any person desiring to
Page 62 - the respective terms; and annually thereafter the mayor shall, before the ist of July of each year, appoint as before three directors, to take the place of the retiring directors, who shall hold office for three years and until their successors are appointed. The mayor may, by and with the
Page 23 - received for such library shall be deposited in the treasury of said city, to the credit of the Library Fund, and shall be kept separate and apart from other moneys of such city, and drawn upon by the proper officers of said city upon the properly authenticated vouchers of the Library Board." I think it would be difficult to select language
Page 23 - City Council of every incorporated city to establish and maintain a public library and reading room for the use of the inhabitants of the city, and empowers cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants to levy a tax not to exceed one-fifth of one mill on the
Page 33 - WB Wickersham, Secretary of the Chicago Public Library, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. WB WICKERSHAM, Secretary. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9th day of June, AD 1873. ISAAC H.
Page 23 - and regulations for their own guidance and the government of the library and reading rooms, provides as follows: "They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditure of all moneys collected to
Page 25 - to be levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of Slid city, and to be known as the ' Library Fund;' and the said annual library tax in cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, for the years
Page 23 - library building, and of the supervision, care and custody of the grounds, rooms, or buildings, constructed, leased, or set apart for that purpose; Provided, that all