Subtitle 17 – Pratt Free Library

It shall be the duty of the Mayor to appoint a visitor, who shall, as often as once a year, examine the books and accounts of the Trustees of the “Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City”, and make a report thereof to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; and said Mayor and City Council shall, in case of any abuse of their powers by said Trustees or their successors, have the right to resort to the proper courts to enforce the performance of the trust imposed on them.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City is hereby empowered to receive any gifts, bequests, devise or conveyance of real or personal property, which may be made to it or to its Trustees, and to hold the title to said property, and from time to time convey the same by deed or otherwise, according to the nature thereof, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, for the use of said library, so that the title thereto shall be vested in the said Mayor and City Council for Baltimore, in the like manner and for the same uses as the property mentioned in the original Act incorporating said library, passed at the January Session, 1882, Chapter 181, subject to the same management and control.

The real estate and personal property vested in said Mayor and City Council by virtue of the Acts of 1882, Chapter 181, authorizing the establishing of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City, and to become vested by future purchases under the provisions of said Act, and the funds and franchises of the “Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City”, shall be exempt from all State and municipal taxes, forever.