Seventy-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1925 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Seventy-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1925 The Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, organized in i8sz, are now incorporated under the provisions of Chapter I I4, of the Acts of i87s, as amended. The Board for I852 was a preliminary or ganization, that for I853 made its first annual report. At first the Board consisted of one alderman and one common-councilman and five citizens at large, until i8o7, when a revised ordinance made it consist of one alder man, two common-councilmen and six citizens at large, two of whom retired, unless re-elected, each year, while the members from the City Council were elected yearly. In is78 the organization of the Board was changed to include one alderman, one councilman, and five citizens'at large, as before i8o7, and in ibbs, by the provisions of the amended city charter, the representation of the City Government upon the Board by an alderman and a councilman was abolished, leaving the Board as at present, , consisting of five citizens at large, appointed by the Mayor, for five - year terms, the term of one member expiring each year. The following citizens at large have been members of the Board since its organization in i85z. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.