§ 278. Authority to transfer school library property to a free
library. The board of education in any city or union free school
district or the electors of any other district, by legal vote duly
approved by the regents, may give to any free library any of the books
or other public school library property not required in such school
library, provided such free library is registered by the regents and
situated in such city or district; and the school authorities or body
making the transfer shall thereafter be relieved of all responsibility
pertaining to the property so transferred.