§ 7-11. Branch libraries.

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore does hereby accept the offer of said Andrew Carnegie, and does hereby undertake and agree that as the sum of $500,000 offered the City of Baltimore by said Andrew Carnegie shall be received and expended by the Trustees of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in the erection of branch library buildings upon sites furnished or provided by the said Mayor and City Council and accepted by the said Trustees, that upon the completion of such of said branch libraries, the same shall be maintained by said Mayor and City Council by a yearly provision in the tax levy of a sum not less than 10% of the amount given by said Andrew Carnegie for the construction of each of said buildings, such annual appropriation by the Mayor and City Council to be expended by said Trustees for the maintenance as aforesaid in such manner as may be specified from year to year in the Ordinance of Estimates.