Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — TO THE CITIZENS OP RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IND. [ARTICLE]

TO THE CITIZENS OP RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, IND.

We the undersigned attorneys in the city of Rensselaer and interested in theeslablishment of a Public Library as provided by the acts of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, A. D., 1901, as amended in A. D., 1903, and ordered to receive the donation contemplated, beg letfve to submit the following: That whereas there has been some misapprehension concerning the laws governing such cases and in order that the public may understand the same we call your attention to the following provisions of the Law. Section 6, of said Law relates in |Kirt to the holding and conveying of real estate and gives the Public Library Board the power to hold real estate for and on behalf of such library. Without this provision the Board would not have any such authority. Taking the whole of this act as amended and this* section as above explained, it was evidently meant that such Public Library Board should hold the real estate upon which any Public (Library Building might be situated. A city has no authority to convey any portion of any of its Public Parks to such Library Board or to any one for any purpose. To make the law under which we are operating absolutely effective tbe Public Library Board should own and control for the use of such Library the real estate upon which tbe Public Library Building is situated. U. M. Baughman G. A. Williams A. Halleck G. F. Meyers Moses Leopold Foltz, Spitleb & Kubbie E. P. Honan Febguson & Wilson - Judson J. Hunt Schuyleb C. Irwin - Ray D. Thompson Geo. K. Hollingsworth Simon P. Thompson