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approved or selected and furnished by the Regents ; that no locality 

 shall share in the apportionment unless it shall raise and use for the 

 same purpose not less than an equal amount from taxation or other 

 local sources; that for any part of the apportionment not payable 

 directly to the library [museum] trustees the Regents shall file with 

 the Comptroller vouchers showing that it has been spent in accord- 

 ance with law exclusively for books [collections] for free libraries 

 [museums] or for proper expenses incurred for their benefit ; and that 

 books [collections] paid for by the State shall be subject to return to 

 the Regents whenever the library [museum] shall neglect or refuse 

 to conform to the ordinances under which it secured them. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1043, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 50. 



§ 1 134 Abolition. Any library [museum] established by public 



vote or action of school authorities, or under section 11 18 of this 



chapter, may be abolished only by a majority vote at a regular annual 



election, ratified by a majority vote at the next annual election. If 



any such library [museum] is abolished its property shall be used 



first to return to the Regents, for the benefit of other public libraries 



[museums] in that locality, the equivalent of such sums as it may have 



received from the State or from other sources as gifts for public use. 



After such return any remaining property may be used as directed 



in the vote abolishing the library [museum] but if the entire library 



[museum] property does not exceed in value the amount of such 



gifts it may be transferred to the Regents for public use, and the 



trustees shall thereupon be free from further responsibility. No 



abolition of a public library [museum] shall be lawful till the Regents 



grant a certificate that its assets have been properly distributed and 



its abolition completed in accordance with law. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1044, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 51, as amended by L. 1895, ch. 859. 



