The City of Derby may maintain a public library, the use of which under proper regulations

shall be free to its inhabitants. The public library shall be under the management and control of

a Board of nine Library Directors who shall serve without pay. Said Board of Directors shall

have charge of all the property of said city used for the purposes of said library and shall direct

the expenditure of all money placed at its disposal by the city from whatever source derived

and of all money and property which may be donated by private individuals to said library. Six

of said nine Directors shall be residents of said city and shall be appointed by the Mayor as

hereinafter provided. The remaining three of said Directors may be nonresidents of said city

and shall be appointed by the Mayor in accordance with any agreement therefor which shall

have been approved by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city, and said Mayor and

Board of Aldermen are authorized to enter into any such agreement with reference to the

appointment of said three Directors, and for such length of time, whether determinable or in

perpetuity, as they may deem advisable. In the absence of any such agreement or upon the

expiration of same, the Mayor shall appoint such three Directors, and may in his discretion

appoint residents or nonresidents of said city. The present Board of Directors shall hold their

offices for the terms to which they have been appointed and until their successors are

appointed. In April 1923, and biennially thereafter, in the month of April, the Mayor shall

appoint three Directors to hold office for six years from the first Monday of May next following

and until their successors are appointed, two of whom shall belong to said group of six

Directors, and one to said group of three Directors. The Mayor shall fill any vacancy in said

Board caused by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, for the unexpired term.

Said Board of Directors shall make and enforce such bylaws, rules and regulations as it may

deem proper for the management, protection and preservation of the property of said library

and the management and the use of the rooms thereof, and shall have all the rights and powers

and be liable to the performance of all the duties and obligations belonging by statute to

Directors of public libraries in cities of this state. They shall have authority, with the consent of

the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, to make a contract or contracts on behalf of and in the name

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of said city with the Derby Neck Library Association for the use and occupation of any

property of said Derby Neck Library Association in furtherance of the purposes of a free public

library. Said Board of Library Directors shall annually report in writing to the Mayor of said

city the condition of said library, the circulation of books, and generally the operation of said

library for the preceding year.

Said Board shall, by ballot, biennially, at such time and place as may be prescribed by the

bylaws, elect one of its, number, who shall be a resident of said city, to be President, who shall

hold office until his successor is elected and said Board shall elect a Secretary, a Treasurer and

such other officers as it may deem necessary, all of whom shall serve without shall pay, and

shall appoint and remove such librarian or librarians and other employees as it may deem

necessary for tile proper management of said library and shall fix the duties and compensation

of such librarian and employees. The offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by the

same person.

The Board of Apportionment and Ta xation of the City of Derby shall annually appropriate a

sum of money for the care, maintenance and support of said public library, and for the purchase

of books, and may from time to time appropriate in addition thereto sums of money for

building purposes, repairs or improvements in real estate and fixtures. All monies which have

been or shall be appropriated by said city for library purposes shall. by the Treasurer of said

city, be paid over to the Treasurer appointed by the Board of Library Directors, at regular

intervals during the fiscal year. No payment shall be made by said Treasurer appointed by said

Board of Library Directors except upon bills or orders approved in such manner as may be

provided in the bylaws, and all bills and vouchers for expenses incurred shall be kept on file as

may be provided in the bylaws and shall be subject to inspection by the Mayor, the City

Treasurer, the Corporation Counsel and any member of the Board of Directors of said library.

The Board of Directors of said library shall not, on account of city appropriations or as

chargeable thereto, expend any money in excess of the money therefor appropriated by said

Board of Apportionment and Ta xation for the use of said library, except that any funds not

derived from such city appropriation may be expended to such an amount and for such

purposes as said Board of Directors shall deem that the interests of said library may require.

The public rooms of said library may be used for all such scientific, literary, historical and other

educational purposes, lectures and meetings as may be approved by the Directors, and for such

other purposes and meetings as the Directors may deem to be expedient, and for the use of said

rooms said Directors may charge such reasonable price as they shall deem proper, except that

when said rooms shall be used for scientific, literary, historical or other educational lectures or

meetings, any charge therefor shall be at the discretion of the Directors, but shall in no case

exceed the reasonable expense attendant upon such use. Any fees received for the use of said

rooms as aforesaid shall be applied to the general purposes of said library. The Mayor and

Board of Aldermen of said city authorized in the name and in behalf of said city to accept any

real estate which may be donated to said city for any of the purposes mentioned in this act

under such terms, conditions, agreements and stipulations with reference thereto and the

management thereof and the name of said library as they may deem to be to the advantage of

said city and not inconsistent with this act. All money, books and other personal property

donated to said city for library purposes, or to said library, may be accepted by said Board of

Directors under such conditions, restrictions and stipulations as they shall deem advantageous

to said library and said city.

The Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of said city shall be a board of trustees of any

permanent fund or any trust for said public library, and shall receive, hold, manage, invest and

reinvest, in the manner provided by law with reference to the investment of trust funds in this

state, any money or other property which by devise, bequest or donation shall be given for the

establishment of any permanent fund, or in trust for the benefit of said public library. Such fund

shall be kept as a separate fund, and said Commissioners shall annually report in writing the

condition of such fund, its disposition and the manner of its investment, to the Mayor of said

city. The income of said fund shall semiannually be turned over to said Board of Directors for

the use of said library, or as specified in the terms of any devise, bequest or donation. Should

any income of said fund not be expended in any one year, such unexpended income shall be

subject at any time to the order of said Board of Directors. Any and all absolute donations of

money or other personal property, whether by gift, bequest or devise, shall be held, managed

and used as said Board of Directors may deem expedient.