History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . in the tower of St. Johns Church. TheCity Board, when collecting these books, found thatthey had at their disposal, with which at once tobuild up a library, four years accumulation of StateLibrary money, amounting to seven hundred and for-ty dollars, and five years accumulation of City Li-brary money, raised by tax, amounting to oue thou-sand two hundred and fifty dollars,—total, one thou-sand nine hundred and ninety dollars. From thisfand they have already
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . in the tower of St. Johns Church. TheCity Board, when collecting these books, found thatthey had at their disposal, with which at once tobuild up a library, four years accumulation of StateLibrary money, amounting to seven hundred and for-ty dollars, and five years accumulation of City Li-brary money, raised by tax, amounting to oue thou-sand two hundred and fifty dollars,—total, one thou-sand nine hundred and ninety dollars. From thisfand they have already added to the library onethousand two hundred and twenty-nine volumes at acost of $ It now contains four thousand sixhundred volumes. It will continue to receive itsannual apportionment from the State, based on thenumber of teachers and pupils in attendance on theschools, and also its annual income from city neither will fall below the amount at whichit has stood for the last few years. The State ap-portionment has been one hundred ami eighty-fivedollars per year, and the city apportionment two. YONKERS. 1:;:; hundred and fifty dollars. With this steady incomeat its disposal, the library will be a steadily growinginstitution. The hoard manifests deep interest in itnow, and will seek to give it a character adapted tothe public need. It is said to be faithfully used bymany persons, both the young people in the schoolsand older and younger people in the outside city. Itis certain that, with its steady income, its certainty ofgood management and of good judgment in the selec-tion of its books, Yonkers has better hope fur a per-manent and noble library than it ever had, or evercould have, in any public library depending on merevoluntary contributions, or even on stock and ratesubscriptions for its support. We cannot see howthis library can fail to be a success. Yonkers Free Reading-Room.—This has justbeen given up, and we speak of it only as a matter ofhisto
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