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Original Resolution Missing
Excerpt from minutes of Board of Trustees Meeting of
April 13, 1916
It was moved that the following Resolution to Accept
the Donation of the Carnegie Corporation be adopted:
"A Resolution to Accept the Donation of Carnegie
Corporation of New York"
"Whereas, Carnegie Corporation of New York has agreed
to furnish ten thousand Dollars to the City of Chula Vista,
California, to erect a Free Public Library Building, on
condition that said City of Chula Vista shall pledge
itself by Resolution of its Board of Trustees, to support
a Free Public Library, at a cost of not less than one
thousand dollars a year, and Provide a suitable site for
said building; now therefore,
Be It Resolved, by the Board of Trustees of the City
of Chula Vista, California, that said City of Chula Vista
accept said Donation, and it does hereby pledge itself
to comply with the requirements of said Carnegie Corporation
of New York.
Resolved, that it will furnish a suitable site for said
building, and will maintain a Free Public Library in said
building erected, at a cost of not less than one thousand
dollars a year.
Resolved that an Annual Levy shall hereafter be made
upon the taxable property of said City sufficient in amount
to comply with the above requirements. "
The motion was duly seconded, and carried by the
following vote, to-wit: Ayes: Barnes, Eitzen, Geyer,
Monroe, Wharton. Noes: None. Absent: None.