Show PLAN FOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY bit Is sponsored Spon gored by department of V clr ginia american legion offered it in state legislature A Ft tein of if p public as me nI to lo ev persons 10 lo iio participated in tile lie world war Is proposed in bills sponsored by the department of virginia american legion odd and recently in the legislature nf f tha that t state tile measures give elve the boards or of su an perl sors sor of any ci coulty nty or the council of any city or town own power to t levy an annual tax of pit to exceed two wills mills for the erection and maintenance of a memorial library state aid to the amount of annually may be given to any locality spending a allt aca a sum and in places having more than no inhabitants an expenditure of not to exceed may bo be anade in order to meet these requirements 2000 2 Is appropriated annually tor for tile the next nest exo 0 o years to the state library board and 2500 ft a year for nn an employee of 0 the state library board to supervise and organize community library work A supplementary bill provides that if the city of 11 richmond will convey a certain plot of land to the state tile latter nall erect thereon a state library building to cost not more than for which a year for two years Is appropriated and the remainder of the sum is 13 to be secured by a deed of trust on the property and improvements in the sum of 1500 t for which bonds running for a term of SO 30 years shall be issued to be retired annually by a sinking fund to be provided by the general assembly this building it Is proposed will contain an auditorium and appropriate memorial tablets and of virginians who served in the war ie only appropriation required for the next two years Is an annual one of i i and the further appropriation of a year thereafter to retire the oe bonds anyone desiring more detailed information about the project should write to W L price adjutant department of virginia american legion 1030 mutual building Ilch richmond mond va V |