The Board of Trustees of the Edgewater Free Public Library shall
hold in trust and manage all property of the library. It may rent
rooms or, when proper, construct buildings for the use of the library;
purchase books, pamphlets, documents, papers and other reading matter;
hire librarians and other necessary personnel, and fix their compensation;
make proper rules and regulations for the government of the library;
and generally do all things necessary and proper for the establishment
and maintenance of the Edgewater Free Public Library. The Board of
Trustees may also transfer to and receive from the deposit and exchange
library service of the Bureau of Public and School Library Services
of the Division of the State Library, Archives and History, in the
State Department of Education, books, magazines, prints, maps and
other related library materials for the purpose of augmenting the
interlibrary loan service.
There shall annually be appropriated and raised by taxation
for library purposes a sum equal to 1/3 of a mill on every dollar
of assessable property within the Borough of Edgewater. Such additional
sum as in the judgment of the Board is necessary for the proper maintenance
of a free public library may be appropriated and raised by taxation,
annually.