1907_public laws_743_2
CHAPTER 742 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 807, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1905, AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR MECK- LENBURG COUNTY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That chapter eight hundred and seven of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby amended by adding after section seven of said chapter the following: Sec. 7a. That for the purpose of extending to the people of Meck-: lenburg County the privileges of the free public library in the city | of Charlotte, known as the Charlotte-Carnegie Public Library, the. Board of Education for said county may appropriate annually  out of the educational funds of said county ard pay to the treasurer of said public library such sum as may be sufficient to secure from the board of trustees of said library to the white citizens of Mecklenburg County the privileges and use of the books of said library, said appropriation not to exceed in any one year the sum of five hundred dollars. That whenever any such appropriation shall be made and accepted, the privileges of said library shall be extended to all white citizens within said county, under the rules and regulations adopted by said board of trustees, ,and the use of said books and the enjoyment of said privileges shall continue for such term as shall be agreed upon between the Board of Education for said county and the board of trustees for said library.