(330 ILCS 115/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 3054)
Sec. 4.
The directors of the Chicago Public Library shall have the
privilege of storing and keeping in such unoccupied portions of said
Memorial Hall building as may not be required for other purposes, all such
maps, charts, books, periodicals, papers and other literature relating to
the late civil war and military history of this country, as they may
desire. At the expiration of fifty years from the completion of said
Memorial Hall building and at any time after the expiration of that period,
the directors of the Soldiers' Home in Chicago, at their option, by a
two-thirds vote of all their members, may turn over, transfer and convey to
the directors of the Chicago Public Library all the right, title and
interest of the Soldiers' Home in Chicago, in and to the said Memorial Hall
building and grounds, and the said directors of the Chicago Public Library
in such case are hereby authorized and empowered to receive, accept, hold
and maintain the same in perpetuity; Provided, however, said building shall
never be deprived of its distinctive character as a Soldiers' Memorial
Hall, or be used by the directors of the Chicago Public Library or any
other persons to the exclusion of the non-political organizations of the
soldiers and sailors of the late civil war and such other organizations of
United States soldiers, sailors and marines of succeeding wars and
expeditions of the United States.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 314.)
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