Rogers Free Library Act

Rogers Free Library Act
California State Senate
CitationCalifornia State Assembly. "An Act to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading-rooms". Twenty-second Session of the Legislature. Statutes of California. State of California. Ch. CCLXVI p. 329.
Enacted byCalifornia State Senate
Enacted byCalifornia State Assembly
EnactedMarch 11, 1878[1]
CommencedMarch 18, 1878

Often referred to as the Rogers Free Library Act, the Rogers Act of 1878 (officially, California State Senate Bill Number 1) was an 1877 bill written in the upper house of the California State Legislature and signed into law on March 18, 1878, by Governor of California William Irwin. It was entitled "An Act to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading rooms"[2] and popularly named after its lead author, State Senator George H. Rogers.

  1. ^ Daily Journal of the California Legislature-Assembly: Twenty-Second Session (PDF) (Report). California Secretary of State. 1878. Retrieved 29 November 2018. Senate Bill No. 1—An Act to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading-rooms. Read third time, and passed, Title approved.
  2. ^ Nye, Matthew. "National City Public Library: An Early History". The Journal of San Diego History: 205, 213.