Excerpt from News Notes of California Libraries, Vol. 4: Nos; 1 4; January October, 1909 The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: section 1. The boards of supervisors of the several counties shall have power to' establish and maintain, within their counties, county library systems in the manner and with the functions prescribed in this act. Sec. 2. The boards of supervisors of any county may establish and maintain such a county library system of their own motion; but they shall be obliged to establish such a system, and to make rea sonable provision for its maintenance, within one year after they have been requested to do so in a petition signed by not less than one fourth of the electors whose names are on the great register in force on the day when such petition is filed with the said county board. 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.