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any other municipal or district body having control of such a library 

 [museum] to furnish library [museum] privileges to the people of the 

 county, under such terms and conditions as may be stated in such 

 contract. The amount agreed to be paid for such privileges under 

 such contract shall be a charge upon the county and shall be paid 

 in the same manner as other county charges. [Amended by L. ign, 

 ch. 815] 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1028, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 36, in part, as amended by L. 1895, ch. 859, § 5; L. 1902, ch. 185; 

 L. 1909, ch. 606; originally revised from L. 1889, ch. 529, tit. 3, § 4. 



Reference. Establishment of free libraries by municipalities, General Municipal 

 Law, § 79. 



Qualifications of voters. Voters upon the question of providing or maintaining 

 a library should possess the same qualifications as voters at district meetings. 

 Rep't of Atty. Gen. (1903) 397. 



Contract with city library. Board of supervisors (prior to the amendment of 

 1911) has no authority under this section to contract with a city library for the 

 use of such library. Rep't of Atty. Gen. (191 1) no. 



§ 1 1 19 Acceptance of conditional gift. By majority vote at 

 any election any municipality or district or by three-fourths vote of 

 its council, any city, or any public library [museum] in the University, 

 or any designated branch thereof, if so authorized by such vote of a 

 municipality, district, or council, or of any combination of such 

 voting bodies, may accept gifts, grants, devises or bequests for public 

 library [museum] purposes on condition that a specified annual 

 appropriation shall thereafter be made, by the municipality or 

 district or combination so authorizing such acceptance, for main- 

 tenance of such library [museum] or branches thereof. Such accept- 

 ance, when approved by the Regents of the University under seal 

 and recorded in its book of charters, shall be a binding contract, and 

 such municipality and district shall levy and collect yearly the 

 amount provided in the manner prescribed for other taxes, and 

 shall maintain any so accepted gift, grant, devise or bequest, intact 

 and make good any impairment thereof. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1029, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 36, as amended by L. 1895, ch. 859; L. 1902, ch. 185; L. 1907, 

 ch. 606; originally revised from L. 1889, ch. 529, tit. 3, § 4. 



Appropriation of a fixed sum continues as an annual appropriation. Rep't of 

 Atty. Gen. (1903) 514. 



§ 1 120 Subsidies. By vote similar to that required by sections 

 1 1 18 and 1 1 19 money may be granted toward the support of libraries 

 [museums] not owned by the public but maintained for its welfare 

 and free use; provided, that such libraries [museums] shall be subject 



