Chap. 0198 An Act repealing certain provisions of law relating to the election of trustees of the bedford free library corporation and other matters.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Chapter fifty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, relating to the election of trustees of the
G- L. (Ter Ed.). 138. § 17, etc., amended.
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Bedford Free Public Library Corporation and other matters, is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The inhabitants of the town of Bedford are authorized to elect six members of the board of trustees of the Bedford Free Public Library in such manner that one third thereof shall be elected for one year, one third for two years, one third for three years and thereafter one third shall be elected annually for a term of three years; and said members, together with the senior clergyman for the time being of each of the Congregational, Unitarian and Catholic churches in said town shall constitute the board of trustees of the Bedford Free Public Library with all the powers appertaining thereto or to the trustees of a free public library. The election of any trustee of the free public library at any town meeting held before the effective date of this act is hereby ratified and confirmed as the election of said trustee as a trustee of the Bedford Free Public Library. The board of trustees of the Bedford Free Public Library is authorized to fill vacancies among the elected members of the board until the next ensuing annual town meeting. The board shall, from its own number, annually choose a chairman and a secretary. The town treasurer shall act as treasurer of the Bedford Free Public Library.
Section 3. The duly elected trustees of the Bedford Free Public Library shall annually elect from among their number three members to serve as trustees of the Bedford Free Public Library Corporation and fill vacancies as such trustee of said Bedford Free Public Library Corporation, who in turn shall annually elect from their own number a president and secretary. The trustees of said corporation shall have full power to administer funds and have custody of all personal property bequeathed or donated to it as such. The town treasurer shall act as treasurer of the said corporation, without additional bond.
Section 4. Any public building owned by said town may by vote of the town be turned over to the trustees of the Bedford Free Public Library as so constituted in section two, to be used as a free public library.
Section 5. Said library shall be conducted in accordance with the applicable and pertinent provisions of chapter seventy-eight of the General Laws.
Section 6. This act shall take effect on the date of the annual town meeting of nineteen hundred and fifty-three of the town of Bedford. Approved March 27, 1952.