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to incorporate the Concord Free Public Library.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section I. Ebenezer R. Hoar, Grindall Reynolds, George M. Brooks, George Keyes, and Henry F. Smith, and their successors, are made a corporation by the name of the Concord Free Public Library, for the formation and maintainance of a public library in Concord; with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now are or hereafter may be in force and applicable to such corporations.

Section 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars, for the purposes aforesaid, in addition to books and objects of curiosity and art.

Section 3. The corporation shall consist of five members, of whom at least four shall be citizens of the town of Concord. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the number of corporators, by death, resignation, or removal from the town, the remaining members shall fill the same; and in case they fail to elect a person to fill the vacancy within three months from the time such vacancy occurs, it shall be competent for the judge of Probate of the county of Middlesex, or in case of his disqualification, for the person empowered by law to act in his stead, upon the application of any inhabitant of Concord, to fill such vacancy. And a majority of the members of the corporation may at any time, with the approval of the judge of probate aforesaid, remove a member of the corporation, and the vacancy thus occasioned shall be filled as in other cases.

Section 4. The town of Concord may transfer to said corporation all funds now held or hereafter received by said town for the purposes of a public library, to be held and applied by the corporation in the same manner as if they were held by the town; and may transfer to the corporation the books and pamphlets of the town library upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon by said town and corporation.

Section 5. So long as said corporation allows the inhabitants of the town of Concord free use of said library under reasonable regulations, said town may appropriate and pay annually towards defraying the expense of maintaining and increasing said library, a sum not exceeding one dollar for each of its ratable polls in the year preceding that in which the appropriation is made, and may also pay the salary of a librarian and of any necessary assistants. The town may also pay over to said corporation, for the use of the library, any money by law applicable to the use of a town library.

Section 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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