COMMITMENTS TO STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN AT Bedford.

Chapter 659, Laws of 1910.

§ 89. Commitments to state reformatory for women at Bedford. Whenever a woman between the ages of sixteen and thirty is convicted in the city of habitual drunkenness, of being a common prostitute, of soliciting on public streets or places for purposes of prostitution, of frequenting disorderly houses or houses of prostitution, or of vagrancy under subdivisions three or four of section eight hundred and eighty-seven of the code of criminal procedure, she may be committed to the state reformatory for women at Bedford, pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred and twenty-six of the state charities law, to be there confined subject to the provisions of such law and of any other statute relating to such reformatory.

AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, relative to the classification of criminals and misdemeanants, and to cover the New York City Reformatory for Misdemeanants.

Chapter 565, Laws of 190g

Section 1. Section six hundred and ninety-eight of the Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, and amended by chapter six hundred and twenty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and four and by chapter three hundred and five of the laws of nineteen hundred and five and by chapter five hundred and sixteen of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 698. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to cause all the criminals and misdemeanants under his charge to be classified, so far as practicable, so that the youthful and less hardened offenders shall not be rendered more depraved by the association with and evil example of older and more hardened offenders. The commissioner may establish and maintain such schools or classes for the instruction and training of the inmates of the institution under his charge, as may be authorized by the board of estimate and apportionment. And to this end the commissioner may set apart one or more of the penal institutions for the custody of such youthful and less hardened offenders, and said commissioner shall have the power, in his discretion, to transfer such offenders thereto and from any other of the penal institutions of the city and when so transferred to classify such offenders so far as practicable with regard to age, nature of offense, or other fact, and to separate or group such offenders according to such classification, so far as practicable. The institution now established for youthful offenders on Harts Island, in the city of New York, by the department of correction of said city, shall be continued and shall be known, after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and five, as "the New York City Reformatory of Misdemeanants," and such other buildings and appurtenances may from time to time be built or used for the purposes herein mentioned, as may be authorized by the board of estimate and apportionment. After January first, nineteen hundred and five, any male person. between the ages of sixteen and thirty, who after conviction by any magistrate or any court of or in the city of New York of any charge, offense, misdemeanor or crime, other than a felony, as a first offense, shall in the discretion of such magistrate or court be a proper subject for reformatory treatment, may be committed to the said New York city reformatory for misdemeanants and in order that such person may have the full benefit of the reformatory and educative influences of said institution any aforesaid magistrate or court imposing sentence shall not fix or limit the duration thereof, except that no commitment of any male child under the age of sixteen years to any institution for children shall be construed as a first offense under the provisions of this act. The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the board of parole of said re

formatory as authorized by this act; but such imprisonment shall not exceed the term of three years. The commissioner of correction of the city of New York, a justice of the court of special sessions of the city of New York, of the first division, a justice of the court of special sessions of the city of New York, of the second division, a city magistrate of the city of New York, of the first division, a city magistrate of the city of New York, of the second division, and four other persons to be appointed by the mayor of the city of New York shall constitute a board of parole of the said New York city reformatory for misdemeanants. The said board of parole shall serve without compensation and shall be appointed or selected as follows: Within sixty days after the passage of this act the mayor shall appoint the four persons above referred to who shall hold office until the first day of February, nineteen hundred and six, but who shall be removable at any time at the pleasure of the mayor. Within sixty days after the passage of this act the justices of the court of special sessions of the first division, shall meet and elect one of their number to be a member of said board of parole by a vote of a majority of all of the said justices, which said election shall be evidenced by the certificate of the clerk of the said court filed in the office of the clerk of the city of New York. Within sixty days after the passage of this act, the justices of the court of special sessions, of the second division, and the city magistrates of the first division and the city magistrates of the second division shall meet and in like manner shall elect one of their number to be a member of the aforesaid board of parole. The election to membership upon said board of parole of a justice of the court of special sessions of the second division shall be evidenced by the certificate of the clerk of said court filed in the office of the clerk of the city of New York, and the election of a city magistrate of each division to be a member of said board of parole shall be evidenced by the certificate of the clerk of the boards of city magistrates of the first and second divisions respectively filed in the office of the clerk of the city of New York. Each of said justices and city magistrates shall serve upon said board of parole until February first, nineteen hundred and six, or until his successor is elected. In the month of January, nineteen hundred and six, the successors of the nine persons above referred to shall be appointed or elected