Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Tenth Annual Report of the Librarian of the Public Library, District of Columbia: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1908 It failed, however, to receive favorable action in the Senate, and in the library trustees' report of June 30, 1904, the following reasons for this failure were suggested: The Opposition to the measure in the Senate was based upon an indisposition to authorize by implication any undefined branch - library expenditures which might by any possibility under the 10 or cent maintenance condition of Mr. Carnegie's donation, impose an onerous burr en upon both local and national taxpayers. The fact that the primary need Of the present is the proper development of the main library and that branch-building expansion, with the accompanying burdens of maintenance, must, even if authorized, be postponed in execution until the future has been and is thoroughly appreciated by the Commissioners and the library trustees. And it is not believed that. If the power to specify the time of branch-library extension had been confided to them. Any evil could possibly have resulted from the general acceptance of Mr. Carnegie's Offer of funds to be available for the erection of branch-library build ings at any date or dates in the future when the District could afford to maintain them. Congress has, however, indicated its unwillingness to authorize broadly this general acceptance of the offer. And it will be necessary to seek authority separately In every instance to accept the exact amount required to build some specified branch library building if and when the District. Feels that it can afford to pay or guarantee in that particular case the 10 per cent maintenance. 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.