in which there is not a public library operated under public authority and free to all the residents of such district, may appropriate annually not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars from its contingent fund for the purchase of books, other than school books, for the use and improvement of the teachers and pupils of such school district. The books so purchased shall constitute a school library, the control and management of which shall be vested in the board of education, which board shall have power to receive donations and bequests of money or property for such library.

SECTION 7. (Board of education may found and maintain museum.) The board of education of any school district, or any board of trustees managing and controlling a library in any school district, may found and maintain a museum in connection with and as an adjunct to such library, and for such purpose may receive bequests and donations of money or other property.

SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after November 15, 1902, and all acts or parts of acts not inconsistent her with under which existing libraries are maintained, governed and controlled, shall be and remain in full force and effect.

W. S. MCKINNON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
H. L. GORDON,

October 17, 1902.

President of the Senate.

MUNICIPAL CODE- PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

GENERAL POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES.

SECTION 7. * * * All municipal corporations shall have the following general powers and council may provide by ordinance or resolution for the exercise and enforcement of the same: * * *

(7-22.) To establish, maintain and regulate free public libraries and reading rooms, and to purchase books, papers maps and manuscripts therefor, and to receive donations and bequests of money or property for the same, in trust or otherwise, and to provide for the rent and compensation for the use of any existing free public libraries established and managed by a private corporation or association organized for that purpose.

APPROPRIATION OF PROPERTY.

SECTION 10. All municipal corporations shall have power to appropriate, enter upon and hold, real estate within their corporate limits, for the following purposes:

* * **

(10-8.) For libraries, university sites and grounds for the same.

TAXATION.

SECTION 33. The aggregate of all taxes levied by any municipal corporation, exclusive of the levy for county and state purposes, for schools and school house purposes, for free public libraries, and library buildings, for university and observatory purposes, for hospitals, and for sinking fund and interest, on each dollar of valuation of taxable property in the corporation on the tax list, shall not exceed in any one year ten mills.

ADMINISTRATION, MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT.

SECTION 218. (Trustees; duties; quorum.) The custody, control and administration, together with the erection and equipment, of free public libraries established by municipal corporations, shall be vested in six trustees, not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party, who shall be appointed by the mayor to serve without compensation for a term of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualified; provided, however, that in the first instance three of such trustees shall be appointed for a term of two years, and three thereof for a term of four years, and all vacancies shall be filled by like appointment for the unexpired term. Said trustees shall employ the librarians and necessary assistants, fix their compensation, adopt the necessary by-laws and regulations for the protection and government of the libraries. and all property belonging thereto, and exercise all the powers and duties connected with and incident to the government, operation and maintenance thereof. It shall require four of said trustees to constitute a quorum and four votes to pass any measure or authorize any act, which votes shall be taken by the yeas and nays and entered on the record of proceedings of said trustees, and in the making of contracts said trustees shall be governed by the provisions of law applicable thereto.

(Council may provide for use and maintenance of library; tax; report.) The council of each city shall have power to levy and collect a tax not exceeding one mill on each dollar of the taxable property of the municipality, annually, and to pay the same to a private corporation or association maintaining and furnishing a free public library for the benefit of the inhabitants of the municipality as and for compensation for the use and maintenance of the same, and without change or interference in the organization of such corporation or association, requiring the treasurer of such corporation or association to make an annual financial report, setting forth all the money and property which has come into his hands during the preceding year, and its disposition of the same, together with any recommendation as to its future necessities.

October 21, 1902.

IN OHIO STATE LIBRARY, OTHER
LIBRARIES OF THE STATE, AND
LISTS OF OHIO NEWSPAPERS IN
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND
THE LIBRARY OF THE
THE HISTOR-

ICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN

APPENDIX TO

SKETCHES OF OHIO LIBRARIES

(Vol. I. )

Open to all parties-but influenced by none.

SATUR D. A. Y, November

November 9, 1793.

The Printer of the CENTINEL of the
North-Western TERRITORY 10
the Public.

AVING arrived at Cincinnati, he has ap

Hplied hinfelf to that which has been tac principal object of his removal to this cotry, the Publication of a News-Paper.

This country is in its infancy, and the inha-" bitants are daily expofed to an enemy who hot content with taking away the lives of men in the field, have fwept away whole families, and barat their habitations. We are well aware that the want of a regular and certain trade down the Wifi Hippi,deprives this country in a great measure, of money at the prefent time. Tiefe are difcouragements, nevertheless i am led to believe the people of this country are difp.fed to promote fience, and have the fille allurance that the Prefs from its known usdity will receive proper encouragement. And on my part am content with fall gains, at the prefent, flattering myfelf that from at(šution to bands, Hual prefegse the good. withe of thofe way have already countenanced ià this undertaking, and fecure the friendship of fible jucat population.

- will!

men of public fpirit will confider the un
dertaking as a proper object of attention, and
apt confult therely ther own perfonal inte-
reft, but the interest of the public and the
coming time,

The MON K.
CALAIS.

POOR monk of the order of St. Francis
came into the room to beg fomething for
No-man cares to have his virtues

his convent,

(Num. 1.)

The rest of his outline may be given in a
few trokes one night put it into the hands
of any one to defign, for 'twas neither elegant
nor otherwife, but as character and expref-
fion made it fo: it was a thin, fpare, form,
fomething above the common fize, if it loft
not the distinction by a bend forwards in the
figure-but it was the attitude of entreaty
and as it now ftands prefented to my imagi
nation, it gained more than it loft by it."

and did it with fo fimple a grace--and fuch
an air of deprecation was, there in the whole
cat of his look and figure-I was bewitched
not to have been truck with it

When he had enter'd the room three pac.
es, he stood ftill; and laying his left hand up-
on his breaft, (a flender white flat with
which he journey'd being in his right)-
when I had got clofe up to him, he introduc.
the fport of contingencies- or one man may
be generous, as another man is puiffinted himself with the little ftory of the wants
299, quo ad banc--or be as it may-for thereof his convent, and the poverty of his order
is no regir reafoning upon the ebbs and
flows of our humours; they may depend upon
the fame caufes, for daght I know, which in-
fluence the tides the afelves-twould oft be
no difcredit to us fuppore it was fo; Imfure
at leaf for myself, that in many a cafe 1 fhould
be more highly fatisfied, to have 1 Mid Ly
the world, Chad on affair with the moon,
in which there was neither fin nor fhame,"
than have it pafs altogether as my own ad
and deed, wherein there was fo'mach of both.

ORIGINAL IN OHIO STATE LIBRARY.

better reafon was, I had predetermin ed majto give him a single fous.