TITLE 29

Libraries

CHAPTER 29-2

Historical Society Libraries

SECTION 29-2-1



   § 29-2-1  Appropriations for Rhode Island

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The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem

necessary out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be

expended by the state librarian for the purpose of caring for, preserving, and

cataloguing the property of the state in the keeping of the Rhode Island

historical society, including such historical materials as may from time to

time be transferred to the society from the state library collections by the

state librarian, and for the purchase and binding of books relating to the

history of the state and for copying and preserving the records of the several

towns of the state, and the state librarian, with the approval of the secretary

of state, may pay this sum to the Rhode Island historical society for this

purpose.



History of Section.

(G.L. 1896, ch. 28, § 8; G.L. 1909, ch. 38, § 14; P.L. 1915, ch.

1207, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 36, § 17; P.L. 1929, ch. 1374, § 1;

P.L. 1929, ch. 1398, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 22, § 15; G.L. 1956, §

29-2-1; P.L. 1978, ch. 404, § 2.)