ney for his sole use, the court may order such transcript This act is ordered to take immediate effect. State library, tents of. [ No. 28. ] AN ACT to provide for the management and control, and for the extension of the usefulness of the State library. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, location and con- That the State library shall be kept in the room in the capitol which it now occupies, unless some other provision shall be made by the legislature in reference thereto. shall consist of the books, pamphlets, papers, pictures, maps, charts, and documents of every description now belonging to the same, together with all such others as it may acquire by gift, purchase, exchange or otherwise. The members of both houses of the legislature and the executive and judicial officers of the State shall at all times have free access thereto, under such rules and regulations as may be made for governing the library. Who to constitute committee SEC. 2. The Governor, the two legislative committees on on library rules, the State library and the State librarian, acting jointly, shall make and execute, modify and amend such rules and regulations, not conflicting with the statutes governing the library, as they may deem proper relative to the use and loans of books from the State library, and also such rules prescribing penalties and fines for any violation thereof. Such rules and regulations, when adopted, shall remain in force until modified or amended. In case it becomes necessary, during the recess of the legislature, to modify or amend a rule, or adopt a new one, the Governor and the State librarian may make such modification, amendment or new rule, and the State librarian shall report such action to the legislature at its next session for reference to the committees on the State library. Rules may be amended, Governor to appoint State librarian. SEC. 3. A State librarian shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, who shall hold the office for the term of four years. The librarian shall have the care and charge of the library and, of the affairs pertaining thereto, and shall make a report to the legislature at the commencement of each regular session thereof, as to its condition and the number and description of the State librarian, volumes as contained therein. The salary of the State Salary of receipt for prop SEC. 4. The State librarian shall, before entering upon Librarian to fle the duties of the office, file with the Secretary of State erty with Secre his receipt for all property entrusted to him, take and sub-tary of State. scribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution and give a bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, To give bond, with sureties to be approved by the Secretary of State, conditioned for the safe keeping of such property as may be entrusted to his care. Said bond and receipt shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and they shall not be canceled, nor shall the sureties on said bond be released from their obligations thereon, until the receipt of the successor to the said librarian, for the property delivered over to him, shall have been obtained and payment for all deficiencies made. remove librarian SEC. 5. The Governor shall have the power to remove Governor may the State librarian at any time for incompetency, neglect for cause. of duty, misfeasance or malfeasance in office, and to appoint another person to fill the vacancy; but the reasons for such removal, together with the name of the appointee to fill such vacancy, shall be laid before the Senate, if in session, if not in session, then at the next session of the legislature. The appointment made to fill such vacancy shall be subject Vacancy, how to the advice and consent of the Senate at such session. In case of a vacancy in the office of the State librarian When Governor from any other cause, the Governor shall appoint another may fill vacancy. person to fill the same, which appointment shall be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate if in session, if not in session then at the next session of the legisla ture thereafter. filled. point assistant, rian to give assistant. SEC. 6. The State librarian is hereby authorized to Librarian to apappoint, with the advice and consent of the Governor, one assistant, who shall be known as the assistant State librarian and who shall give to the State librarian a good and Assistant librasufficient bond, approved by the Secretary of State, for the bond and take safe keeping of the property held in charge and who shall oath. take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. It shall Duties of be the duty of the assistant State librarian to aid in the care of the books, the keeping of the accounts, and to render such assistance as the State librarian may require. The salary of the assistant State librarian shall be nine Salary of. hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly out of the State treasury, upon the presentation of a voucher certified to by the State librarian and drawn upon the warrant of the Auditor General from any funds not otherwise appropriated. The assistant librarian shall at any time be sub- When assistant ject to removal, when in the opinion of the State librarian removal, and the Governor the interests of the State library require it. subject to employ addi Librarian may SEC. 7. The State The State librarian is hereby authorized to tional assistance. employ, with the approval of the Governor, such additional assistance as may be necessary for the care and management of the library, at a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum for each person so employed, to be paid in the same manner as provided in case of the assistant librarian. Officers and employés of the State are re certificate that all books have been returned before final settlement. SEC. 8. Before any member of the legislature, or of any convention to revise the constitution, or other officer or quired to show employé of the State, who may be authorized by the rules of the State library to draw therefrom, shall receive their pay in full, it shall be necessary for them to obtain and exhibit from the State librarian, a certificate stating that they have returned all the books they may have drawn from the State library. Before a final settlement with any State employé it shall be the duty of the State officers to require such employés to obtain and exhibit to the officer in charge of their respective departments, the certificate above referred to. Librarian change books, statutes, etc. SEC. 9. The State librarian shall exchange the judicial authorized to ex- decisions, statutes, journals, legislative and executive documents of Michigan, and other books placed in the care of the State librarian for the purpose of exchange, with the libraries of other states and the government of the United States, and of foreign countries, and with societies and institutions. The State librarian may sell or exchange duplicate volumes or sets of works not needed for use in the State library and apply the proceeds to the purchase of other books for the library. Appropriation of books. How drawn. SEC. 10. The sum of five thousand dollars, to be assessed, for the purchase levied and collected in the same manner as other State taxes, is hereby appropriated for each of the years eighteen hundred ninety-five and eighteen hundred ninety-six for the purchase of books and such other material as is appropriate to be added to the State library. The money so appropriated shall be drawn from the State treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor General and shall be expended by the State librarian with the advice and consent of the Governor for the purchase of books, pamphlets, papers, maps, documents and other matter for the library and for other purposes of benefit and advantage to said library. Who may be libraries, SEC. 11. Any public, incorporated, school, or college come associate library in the State having not less than one thousand volumes, other than publications furnished by the State, may, upon compliance with the provisions of the rules prescribed by the library committee, become an "associate library" with the State library and be entitled to all the privileges accorded by this act to associate libraries. It shall be the duty of the State librarian to issue, to any eligible library complying to the rules above mentioned, a certificate of association showing that such library has become an "associate library" The associate relationship may be terminated libraries may at any time by a surrender of said certificate and the return when associate of all books belonging to the State library, whereupon the terminate rela State librarian shall return to the librarian of such asso- tionship. ciate library any bonds or deposits held for the return of books. The associate relationship may also be terminated by a violation of such rules as the library committee may prescribe. annual report to SEC. 12. The librarian of every such associate library Associate librashall make an annual report to the State librarian of the ran to make names of its directors, trustees or managers, the number of State librarian, volumes contained in such library and the number of volumes drawn therefrom during the preceding year. Such report shall be made at the close of the fiscal year of such associate library. The librarian shall also report at once any changes made in its directors or officers during the year. to associate SEC. 13. Under such reasonable rules and regulations as State librarian may be prescribed therefor, the State librarian, upon the may lead books requisition of the librarian of any associate library, may library. lend to such associate library any book which may be called for by any patron of such associate library, except such books, pamphlets, papers, maps, or documents as, in the discretion of the State librarian cannot, consistently with the best interests of the State library, be allowed to be taken therefrom: Provided, That all expense of transpor- Proviso as to. tation shall in all cases be paid by the associate library borrowing such book or other property. give advice to librarian. SEC. 14. The directors, trustees, or managers, or the When State librarian of any associate library shall be entitled to ask librarian may from the State librarian any needed advice or instruction associate as to a library building, furniture, equipment, government, service, rules for readers, selecting, buying, cataloguing, shelving, lending books, or other matter pertaining to the establishment, reorganization or administration of a public library. It shall be the duty of the State librarian to impart any such advice or instruction in his possession, whenever requested by any officer of an associate library. ate libraries SEC. 15. If the responsible officers or managers of any Violation of rules associate library shall disregard, violate or refuse to com- to debar associply with the rules and regulations relative to the loaning from privileges. of books, such associate library shall be debarred from the privileges granted by this act. to keep record SEC. 16. The State librarian shall keep a complete record State librarian of associate libraries and of the transactions therewith, and of associate shall include in his report to the legislature a summary of libraries, the facts set forth in the application of such libraries, together with such other matters relating to such libraries as may be of public interest and value. traveling SEC. 17. There shall be appropriated from the treasury Appropriation of the State, from funds not otherwise appropriated, the tor Michigan sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for the purchase library. of books and equipment of those libraries which shall be Repealing clause. designated as "Michigan Traveling Libraries." Under such SEC. 18. All acts or parts of acts so far as they con- Enacting clause. Governor to ap point commis sioner of mineral statistics. [No. 29. ] AN ACT to amend section one of an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of a commissioner of mineral statistics and defining the duties and compensation of the same," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as amended by act number one hundred and eighty of the public acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, being compiler's section eight hundred and thirty-nine. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section one of an act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of a commissioner of mineral statistics and defining the duties and compensation of the same," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as amended by act number one hundred and eighty of the public acts of eighteen hundred and seventy nine, being compiler's section number eight hundred and thirty-nine, be amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of the Governor of the State of Michigan to appoint, by and with the consent of the Senate, a commissioner of mineral statistics for Term of office, the State. The term of the office of the present commissioner shall expire on the thirty-first day of March in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the term of office of his successor shall commence on the first day of April thereafter, and shall continue for two years, or until his successor shall be named. It shall be the duty of said commissioner to make an annual report to the Governor, setting forth in detail the mineral statistics for the year; with the progress and development of its mining and smelting industries. Commissioner to make annual report. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |