Our fine, present-day Scott County Public Library, of which we are justly proud, is the end result of a chain of events going back through history to the very beginning of our State. In 1806 the Territorial legislature passed an act incorporating a libretto at Vincennes, which still exists as Indiana's oldest. The Constitution adopted in 1816, when Indiana became a State, stated that "the General Assembly, at the time they lay off a new county, shall cause at least 10% to be reserved out of the proceeds of the sale of town lots in the seat of justice n each county, for the use of a public library..." Additions to the law in 1831, 1837, and 1847 provided for better care of the funds collected.
