CHAPTER
49
NASSAU LIBRARY |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
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Name of institution - managers and mode of
appointment. |
Appointment or election of new trustees. |
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Librarian to be appointed. |
Annual report to Minister. |
CHAPTER 49 |
NASSAU LIBRARY |
An Act
for establishing and supporting a public library in the City
of Nassau. | 35 of 1847
18 of 1874
G.N. 10/1964
E.L.A.O., 1974
5 of 1998 |
[Commencement 25th
March, 1847] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Nassau Library Act. | Short title. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- | Interpretation. |
"Minister"
means the Minister responsible for Education. |
3. The institution known as The Nassau Public Library
and Reading Room shall be managed by seven trustees to be appointed annually in
the month of June in each and every year, four of whom shall be first nominated
by the Minister, and three afterwards elected by the subscribers in such manner
as the trustees may direct: | Name of institution - managers and mode of
appointment. |
Provided that no
person shall be qualified to be appointed to act as a trustee unless he shall
be a subscriber to the institution. |
4. In the case of a vacancy occurring among such
trustees between the periods of appointment and election, by the death,
resignation, absence from The Bahamas or disqualification of a trustee, it
shall be lawful for the Minister, should such vacancy occur among
the appointed trustees, to fill up such vacancy, and if the same should occur
among the elected trustees, for the subscribers to the said institution to
proceed to the election of another trustee to fill up the vacancy so occurring,
and the person so appointed or elected shall have the same and like powers,
rights and authorities as trustees appointed and elected at the regular annual
periods. | Appointment or election of new trustees. |
5. The trustees shall have full power and authority to
accept donations, and to purchase out of the funds of the institution such
books, maps, prints, philosophical and other instruments and apparatus, and
such natural curiosities as they shall deem proper from time to time to place
therein, and to make and establish suitable rules for the management,
arrangement, preservation, access to and use of the same; and, if they shall
think fit, for the loan of books, other than books of reference, from the same;
and the said rules or any of them from time to time in their discretion, to
alter, add to or annul, and for any so annulled, others to substitute, and out
of the funds of the said institution to provide for the lighting and keeping
clean the same: | Powers of trustees. |
Provided that all
such rules and every subsequent addition thereto, or alteration, annulment or
substitution thereof shall, before the same shall take effect, be submitted to
and approved by the Minister: |
Provided also that
the said library shall include a collection of books suitable for a working
man's library, which shall be made available to the labouring classes of the
community, under the rules aforesaid, by a low scale of subscriptions adapted
to their means. | Library to include a collection of books suitable to a
working man's library. |
6. The trustees shall have authority to appoint a
librarian for the said library, and such appointment, when they
shall think fit to revoke, and a new appointment to make whenever, from death
or any other cause, the office shall become vacant, and to allow the person so
appointed, out of the funds of the institution, reasonable remuneration for his
services. | Librarian to be appointed. |
7. The trustees shall cause a report of the state of the
said library, and of the funds thereof, to be submitted
annually to the Minister who shall lay a copy of such report on the table of
each House of Parliament. | Annual report to Minister. |