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 so appointed and incorporated by this Act, or the major Part of them, at any General Meeting assembled, shall, from time to time, and as often as they shall think fit, make. . . such Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances, for the Custody, Preservation, and Inspection of every Part of the several Collections ... as to them shall seem meet; and shall and may in like Manner assign such Salaries and Allowances as they shall think fit, to the Officers and Servants, and shall and may, at their Pleasure, in like Manner, suspend or remove any such Officer, for Misbehaviour or Neglect of Duty."

The wording of the provision concerning salaries is not held at the present day to exempt the Trustees from the authority of the Treasury.

The Trustees meet once a year, their authority being delegated in the interval to a Standing Committee, which again divides itself into Standing Sub-committees.

The English and Welsh "free public libraries" are governed by Committees, appointed according to the provisions of the Public Libraries Act, 1892, section 15, sub-sections 1 & 2 : — (i) The general management, regulation, and control of every library, museum, art gallery, and school provided under this Act shall be vested in and exercised by the Library Authority {i.e. in boroughs, the town council or a committee appointed by it ; in districts, the board or trustees acting in execution of the Improvement Act, or a committee appointed by them ; also local boards under the Local Government Act, 1858; in parishes, a. body of commissioners appointed by the vestry, and that Authority may provide therein books, newspapers, maps, and