meet and organize, by the election of one of their number president, and by the election of a secretary and such other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations for their own guidance and for the government of the library and the reading room as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent herewith.

§ 5. All revenue and money paid, collected or received by authority of any provision herein contained, whether by taxation, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, shall belong to and be known and designated as the "Library Fund," and shall be paid into the proper city treasury, and there kept separate and apart from other funds, and be drawn therefrom as hereinafter provided, but only to be used and applied to the purposes herein authorized. This board of directors shall have exclusive control of the expenditure of all moneys collected and placed to the credit of said library fund the charge of the construction of any building erected, and the supervision, care and custody of the grounds, rooms, or buildings, constructed, least or set apart for that purpose. This board shall have power to purchase or lease grounds, to occupy, lease, or erect an appropriate building or buildings for the use of said library; to appoint a suitable librarian and necessary assistants, and fix their compensation, and at their discretion to remove such appointees. They shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of this act in establishing and maintaining a public library and reading room or rooms. Said board may order the withdrawal and payment, upon properly authenticated vouchers, duly certified by the president and secretary, of money from the library fund, for any liability or expenditure herein authorized. Said board may purchase necessary books, journals, publications and other personal property in accordance with their judgment of what is best; but all such expenditures are limited to the

amount to the credit of the library fund in each fiscal year.

§ 6. Every library and reading room established under this act shall be forever free to the use of the inhabitants of the city where located, always subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the library board in their discretion may adopt, in order to render the use of said library and reading room or rooms beneficial to the greatest number, and said board may exclude from such library and reading room or rooms all persons who shall willfully violate any of its rules: Provided, That the board of directors of such library and reading room or rooms may under such rules and regulations as may be deemed by them necessary, and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, allow non-residence of the city, in which the library or reading rooms are situated, to use the books therein, and may exchange such books with any other public library, either permanently or temporarily, and may send out traveling libraries in their own or adjoining counties; and any such board may contract with the members of the fiscal court of the county in which the library is situated or with the members of the fiscal court of any adjacent county or with individuals or associations, or with the members of the fiscal court, school board trustees or common council of any adjacent county, city, town, or school district, to loan the books of said library singly or in traveling libraries to the residence of such county, city, town, or school district, upon the terms and as may be agreed upon in such contract; and the fiscal court, council, board of school trustees of ary such county, city, town or school district, who are hereby empowered to make contracts for such purposes, and to pay the consideration agreed upon therein, to the board of directors of such library and reading room or rooms, out of the county or city treasury, upon the rendering of proper accounts and vouchers therefor.

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§ 7. Said board shall, on or before the first Monday in July of each year, make an annual report to the municpal authorities of their city, giving the condition of their trust, with full statements of all property, and money received, whence derived, how used and expended; the number of books, journals, and other publications on hand; the number added by gift, purchase, or otherwise during the year; the number lost or missing, the number and character of those loaned, the number of visitors attending, and such other statistics, information and suggestions as may be of general interest. A financial report showing all receipts and disbursements of money shall also be made by the secretary of the board, duly verified by affidavit.

§ 8. Any city or town wherein a public library or reading room or rooms may be established shall have power to pass ordinances for the protection of the same, and all property thereto belonging, and for imposing penalties for the punishment of persons committing injury to such library or reading room or rooms or the property or books thereof, or for failure to return any book or other property belonging thereto. They shall also have power, by ordinance or resolution duly passed for such purpose to grant, donate, or authorize the use of either in whole or in part, any land square or real estate belonging to such city or town, or dedicated to public use therein, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a building to be used for a public library and reading room as herein authorized.

§ 9. Any person desiring to make donations of money, personal property, or real estate for the benefit of such library shall have the right to vest the title of the property so donated in the board of directors created under this act, to be held and controlled by such board, when accepted, according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise, or bequest of such property, and as to such property the said board shall be held and considered to be special trustees.

Approved March 21, 1902.

CHAPTER 66.

AN ACT to make it unlawful for a person to fraudulently dispo of the property of another, and to provide a punishment theref

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonweal of Kentucky:

§ 1. That any person who shall sell, dispose of or conve to his or her own use or the use of another, any mone property, or other thing of value without the consent the owner thereof, shall be punished by confinement in t penitentiary for not less than one nor more than fi years; if the money, property, or other thing of value sold, disposed of or converted to his or her own use be the value of twenty dollars or more; or be confined in t county jail for not less than one nor more than twel months if the value be less than twenty dollars.

Approved March 21, 1902

CHAPTER 67.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An Act to establish houses reform, one for boys and one for girls, and to provide for government thereof and making an appropriation therefor," proved March 21, 1896, by repealing section 13 with the sub-s tions thereof, and substituting for said section the provisions this act.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwea of Kentucky:

§ 1. That section thirteen, including subsections of two, three, four, and five, under said section of an act, titled "An act to establish houses of reform, one for bo and one for girls, and to provide for the government the of and making appropriations therefor," be and the sa is hereby repealed, and the following substituted theref to-wit:

ʊ a giris may be committed to said house of orm for any period of time not exceeding the minority said child in the following cases:

. Upon conviction in any of the courts of this Commonalth of a felony or misdemeanor.

2. When any boy or girl under the age of eighteen, aforesaid, shall be arrested, charged with the commisn of a crime, a conviction of which would subject him. her to imprisonment, the judge of any of the aforesaid arts before which he or she is brought, may, at any ge of the trial, by the consent and at the request of è accused, or of his or her parent or guardian, arrest e progress of the same and commit the accused to said titutions. When any one is convicted and sentenced unthis law, the superintendent or authorities shall take d person and keep them in said institution as stated in judgment of conviction and shall not be allowed the distion of refusing to receive said persons so convicted. 3. When the grand jury of any county are satisfied at there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on al for a crime or misdemeanor, he or she being, as before ted, under the age of eighteen years, it may, instead of indictment, return to the court a report, in writing, recmending such infant to the guardianship of the house reform; and thereupon, if the courts be satisfied from : evidence adduced, that such commitment would be pro', it may order such boy or girl to be committed to said titution for any length of time, not exceeding the miity of said child. And it shall be the duty of the judge any court sentencing a boy or girl to either of said instiions under this act to certify to the superintendent reof the age of the person so committed, as nearly as be ascertained, by testimony taken under oath, and the se for which committed.