Thirty-Second Annual Report of Board of Trustees and Thirty-First Annual Report of the Librarian of the Public Library of the District of Columbia

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirty-Second Annual Report of Board of Trustees and Thirty-First Annual Report of the Librarian of the Public Library of the District of Columbia: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1929 It is especially gratifying to the trustees that legislation during the past year established a subbranch on Conduit Road and permits the Opening of one at Woodridge during the current year; that a site was purchased for a major branch in northeast Washington; that the bill H. R. 16662, authorizing a library-expansion program, passed the House and was favorably reported to the Senate by the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, though it failed Of passage owing to the congestion during the last days of Congress. 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.