See the General Note at Top of page 71. purchase or rent any lands or any, therefore, it is hereby declared and suitable buildings, and the Council enacted that--or Board and Town Commissioners respectively may, upon any lands so appropriated, purchased, or rented respectively, erect any buildings suitable for Public Libraries or Museums or Schools of Science and Art, or both (b), and may apply, take down, alter, and extend any build Buildings may under the said sections be erected for Public Libraries, Public Museums, Schools for Science, Art Galleries, and Schools for Art, or for any one or more of those objects (a). ings for such purposes, and rebuild, repair, and improve the same respectively, and fit up, furnish, and supply the same respectively with all requisite furniture, fittings, and conveniences. NOTES. (a) Also Schools of Music (?) see Section 12 and Amendments thereof, page 77. (b) See the amending Section opposite. PROVISIONS OF 8 AND 9 VICT., CAP. 18, INCORPORATED WITH THIS ACT. 10. "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845," shall be incorporated with this Act; but the Council or Board, and Commissioners respectively shall not purchase or take any lands otherwise than by agreement. LANDS, &c., MAY BE SOLD OR EXCHANGED. 11. The Council or Board and Commissioners aforesaid respectively may, with the like approval as is required for the purchase of lands, sell any lands vested in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, or Board, or Town Commissioners respectively, for the purposes of this Act, or exchange the same for any lands better adapted for the purposes; and the moneys to arise from such sale, or to be received for equality of exchange, or a sufficient part thereof, shall be applied in or towards the purchase of other lands better adapted for such purposes. See the General Note at Top of page 71. GENERAL MANAGEMENT TO BE VESTED IN COUNCIL OR BOARD, OR TOWN COMMISSIONERS. LAND) AMENDMENT ACT, 1877, Powers of Principal Act Extended to 12. The general management, XIII. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES (IREregulation, and control of such Libraries and Museums or Schools of Science and Art shall be, as to any Borough, vested in and exercised by the Council or Board, and as to any Town, in and by the Town Commissioners, or such Committee as they respectively may from time to time appoint, who may from time to time purchase and provide the necessary fuel, lighting, and other similar matters, books, newspapers, maps, and specimens of art and science, for the use of the Library or Museum, and cause the same to be bound, or repaired, when necessary, and appoint salaried officers and servants, and dismiss the same, and make rules and regulations for the safety and use of the Libraries and Museums or Schools of Science and Art, and for the admission of visitors. Section 3. The terms "Science and Art" and "Schools of Science and Art" used in the said principal Act shall be deemed to include the Science and Art of Music and Schools of Music respectively; and the Council or Board of any Borough or the Town Commissioners of any Town shall be at liberty to apply such portion as they may deem fit of the rate which they are or may be authorised to levy, under the provisions of the principal Act, towards the maintenance and support of, and payment of the salaries of teachers of a School or Schools of Music, and the purchase of musical instruments, books, and other requisites for the use of such School or Schools. CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF XIII. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT, 1877, CAP. 15. Section 4. The Committee in which the general management, regulation, and control of such Libraries, Museums, or Schools may be vested under the provisions of the twelfth section of the principal Act, may consist in part of persons not members of the Council or Board, or Commissioners, See the General Note at Top of page 71. SCHOOLS OF ART. XV. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT, 1884. Section 1. Whereas doubts have arisen as to whether authorities acting' under the Public Libraries Acts, have power to fulfil the conditions required for a Parliamentary grant in aid of the establishment of a School of Science and Art, and it is expedient to remove such doubts: It is therefore hereby declared and enacted that,- Where any authority acting under the Public Libraries Acts accepts a grant out of moneys provided by Parliament from any Committee of the Privy Council on Education towards the purchase of the site, or the erection, enlargement, or repair of any School for Science and Art, or School for Science, or School for Art, or of the residence of any teacher in such school, or towards the furnishing of any such school, such authority shall have power to accept such grant upon the conditions prescribed for the acceptance thereof by the said Committee, and to execute such instruments as may be required by the said Committee for carrying into effect such conditions, and upon payment of the grant shall, together with their successors, be bound by such conditions and instrument, and have power and be bound to fulfil and observe the same. POWER TO ESTABLISH MUSEUM. XV. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT, 1884. Section 3. Where any of the following institutions, namely, a Public Museum, a Public Library, a School for Science and Art, a School for Science, a School for Art, or an Art Gallery has been established either before or after the passing of this Act under the Public Libraries Acts, or any of them, there may at any time be established in connection therewith any other of the said institutions without any further proceedings being taken under the said Acts. NOTE. See Section 9 and amendments thereof, page 75. POWERS TO BORROW ON MORTGAGE. XIII. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES (IRELAND) Amendment Act, 1877, CAP. 15. Section 5. For carrying the principal Act and this Act into execution the Council, Board, or Commissioners respectively may, with the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, from time to time borrow, at interest, on the security of a mortgage or bond of the Borough Fund or the Town Fund, or of the rates levied in pursuance of the principal Act, such sums of money as may be by them respectively required, and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland may from time to time advance and lend any such sums of money. The clauses and provisions of the See the General Note at Top of page 71. Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, with respect to the borrowing of money on mortgage or bond, and the accountability of officers, and the recovery of damages and penalties, so far as such provisions may respectively be applicable to the purposes of the principal Act and of this Act, shall be respectively incorporated therewith (a). (a) See these provisions, page 129. NOTE. PROPERTY OF LIBRARY, &c., TO BE VESTED IN COUNCIL, BOARD AND COMMISSIONERS RESPECTIVELY. 13. The lands and buildings so to be appropriated, purchased, or rented as aforesaid, and all other real and personal property whatever presented to or purchased for any Library or Museum or School of Science and Art (a) established under this Act, shall be vested, in the case of a Borough, in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, and in the case of a Town in the Town Commissioners. NOTE. (a) Or School of Music (see Section 12 and amendments thereof, page 77). IF MEETING DETERMINE AGAINST ADOPTION OF 14. If any meeting called as herein before provided to consider as to the adoption of this Act for any Borough or Town shall determine against such adoption no meeting for a similar purpose shall be held for the space of one year at least from the time of holding the previous meeting. LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS TO BE FREE. 15. The admission to all Libraries and Museums established under this Act shall be open to the public free of all charge. THIS ACT TO BE INCORPORATED WITH LOCAL ACTS IN FORCE IN BOROUGH OR TOWN. 16. Upon the coming into operation of this Act in any Borough, it shall, as regards such Borough, be incorporated with the said Act of the Third and Fourth Victoria, Chapter one hundred and eight, and upon the coming into operation of this Act in any Town it shall, as regards such Town, be incorporated with the Act or Acts in force therein relating to the powers and duties of the Town Commissioners, ADDITIONAL POWERS OBTAINED BY LOCAL ACTS. Further powers in addition to those contained in the Public Libraries Acts have been obtained by Local Acts in many towns. The following extracts are published by the courtesy of the Town Clerks of Manchester and Sheffield, and may be serviceable : THE MANCHESTER IMPROVEMENT ACT, 1871. 34 AND 35 VICTORIA, CAP. LXV. (LOCAL.) Power to make Bye-Laws as to Libraries, &c. 17. The Corporation may from time to time make bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes relating to the present or any future Public Library, Museum, or place of instruction, for the time being belonging to, or vested in, or under the control of the Corporation :— For regulating the days on and hours at which the same shall be opened and closed, and for regulating the conduct of persons frequenting the same, and for protecting the same, and the books, maps, plans, newspapers, and other articles and matters, fixtures and fittings therein or thereto belonging, from injury or destruction : For enabling the servants of the Corporation to exclude or remove therefrom idle or disorderly persons, or persons not using such place for the purpose for which the same is intended, or being guilty of a breach of any bye-law relative thereto, or of any public law : For imposing penalties upon any person improperly obtaining, retaining, or disposing of any book, newspaper, or other article therefrom, or neglecting or refusing compliance with the terms of any guarantee or other document signed by him in relation thereto. Further Provisions as to such Bye-Laws. 18. The Corporation may, in and by any such last-mentioned bye-law, impose a penalty, for any offence, not exceeding five pounds, and for a continuing offence not exceeding that sum for every day during which the offence may continue; provided always that such bye-laws be so framed as to allow the justices before whom any penalty imposed may be sought to be recovered to order the whole or part only of such penalty to be paid. No such bye-law (except such as may relate solely to officers and servants of the Corporation) shall be valid or binding unless the same may be made and published and submitted to one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries |