Excerpt from Public Libraries: Annual Report 1899 During the year 3 absolute and 8 provisional library Charters were granted by the regents involving the transfer Of one district library. IO were established in places where there were no previously existing libraries Open to the public. One library was admitted with existing Charter and to provisional Charters issued in 1893, '94 and '95 were made absolute. 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.