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Show PLAN FOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY Bills Sponsored by Department of Virginia, Vir-ginia, American Legion, Offered in State Legislature. A system of public libraries as memorials me-morials to ex-service persons who participated par-ticipated In the world war, is proposed In bills sponsored by the department of Virginia, American Legion, and recently re-cently introduced In the legislature of that state. The measures give the boards of supervisors su-pervisors of any county or the eoun-! eoun-! ci1 of any city or town power to levy an annual tax of p-t to exceed two mills for the erection and maintenance of a "Memorial Library." . State aid to the amount of $500 annually may be given to any locality spending a Ile sum, and in places having more than 10,000 Inhabitants an expenditure expendi-ture of not to exceed $5,000 may be made. In order to meet these requirements, $25,000 is appropriated annually for the next tro years to the state library li-brary board, and $2,500 a year for an employee of the state library board to supervise and organize community library li-brary work. A supplementary bill provides that if the city of Richmond will convey a certain plot of land to the state, tne latter will erect thereon a state library li-brary building to cost not more than $2,000,000, for which $250,000 a year for two years Is appropriated, and the remainder of the sum Is to be secured by a deed of trust on the property and improvements In the sum of $1,500,-lv, $1,500,-lv, for which bonds running for a term of SO 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 eon-tain eon-tain an auditorium and appropriate memorial me-morial tablets and trophies of Virginians Virgin-ians who served in the war. -.ie only appropriation required for the next two years Is an annual one of $i'5,000, and the further appropriation appropri-ation of $120,000 a year thereafter to retire the bonds. Anyone desiring more detailed information about the project should write to VV. L. Price, Adjutant, Department of Virginia, American Legion, 1030 Mutual Building, Build-ing, Richmond, Va. |