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the state board of charities, of the state department of health, of the state charities aid association and of the board of supervisors of the county; and the resident officers shall admit such representatives into every part of the hospital and its buildings, and give them access on demand to all records, reports, books, papers and accounts pertaining to the hospital. (Added by chapter 341 of the Laws of 1909.)

§ 49-e. Hospitals at almshouses.- Wherever a hospital for the care and treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis exists in connection with, or on the grounds of a county almshouse, the board of supervisors may, after sections forty-five to forty-nine-e of this chapter take effect, appoint a board of managers for such hospital and such hospital, and its board of managers, shall thereafter be subject to all the provisions of this act, in like manner as if it had been originally established hereunder. Any hospital which may hereafter be established by any board of supervisors shall in like manner be subject to all the provisions of said section. (Added by chapter 341 of the Laws of 1909.)

COUNTY JAILS

99. Houses of detention for women, children and witnesses. -The board of supervisors of any county, except the county of Kings, may procure, by lease or purchase, a suitable place or places, other than the jail, for the safe and proper keeping and care of women and children charged with crime not punishable by death or imprisonment in state prison for a term exceeding five years or with second offense, and persons detained as witnesses, to be termed houses of detention; and when so provided, any magistrate in the county shall commit women and girls, and boys under sixteen years of age, and all persons held as witnesses thereto, instead of the jail. The sheriff shall have the same charge and control of such house, and shall be entitled to the same compensation for the care and keeping of prisoners therein, as in the county jail.

100. County work-houses.-The board of supervisors of any county may establish and maintain a work-house for the confinement of persons convicted within the county of crimes and criminal offenses, the punishment for which is imprisonment in the county jail, and may provide for the imprisonment and employment therein of all persons sentenced thereto, and any court or judicial officer may sentence such person to such workhouse instead of to the county jail.

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101. Who may visit jails and work-houses. persons may visit at pleasure all county jails and work-houses: The governor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every minister of the gospel having charge of a congregation in the town in which such jail or workhouse is located. No other person not otherwise authorized by law shall be permitted to enter the rooms of a county jail or workhouse in which convicts are confined, unless under such regulations as the sheriff of the county shall prescribe.

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SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE POOR

Section 220. Election, appointment and term of office of superintendents of the poor.

221. Undertaking.

§ 220. Election, appointment and term of office of superintendents of the poor.— There shall continue to be elected or appointed in each of the counties, except Kings, Queens and Richmond, one or more superintendents of the poor as heretofore; but no supervisor of a town, or county treasurer, shall be elected or appointed to such office. The board of supervisors of any county having, or entitled to have three or more superintendents of the poor, may, at an annual meeting thereof, determine by resolution that thereafter only one county superintendent of the poor shall be elected; but no superintendent of the poor shall be clected or appointed in such county until the general election next preceding the expiration of the terms of the superintendents in office, or the office shall be va

cant. The term of any superintendent in office, or of any person duly elected thereto on the passage of such resolution, shall not be affected thereby. Such board may also, in counties having and entitled to have but one superintendent of the poor, in like manner determine that thereafter three superintendents of the poor be elected for such county. After the passage of a resolution, as herein provided, the powers herein conferred shall not be again exercised within a period of five years. Such resolution shall not take effect until the next calendar year succeeding its adoption. There shall continue,

1. To be elected annually in each of the counties so having and being entitled to three county superintendents, one county superintendent of the poor, who shall hold his office for three years from and including the first day of January succeeding his election, and until his successor is duly elected and qualifies;

2. To be appointed by the board of supervisors, if in session, otherwise by the county judge, a county superintendent of the poor, when a vacancy shall occur in such office, and the person so appointed shall hold the office until and including the last day of December succeeding his appointment, and until his successor shall be elected and qualifies;

3. To be elected a county superintendent of the poor in a county when a vacancy shall occur in such office, and the term of which shall not expire on the last day of the next succeeding December, and the person so elected shall hold the office for such unexpired term, which shall be designated upon the ballots of the electors, or until his successor shall be elected and qualifies;

4. To be elected in each of the counties so having, and entitled to have but one superintendent, a superintendent of the poor, who shall hold his office for three years from and including the first day of January succeeding his election, and until his suc cessor is duly elected and qualifies;

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5. To be appointed by the board of supervisors, if in session, otherwise by the county judge, a superintendent of the in a county having and being entitled to but one superintendent, when a vacancy shall occur in such office; and the person so appointed shall hold the office until and including the last day of December succeeding his appointment, and until his successor be elected and qualifies;

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6. To be elected in the succeeding year after the board of supervisors of a county having but one superintendent of the poor, shall have adopted a resolution to have three superintendents, if the term of the superintendent in office expires with such year, three superintendents of the poor for such county, for the terms of one, two and three years respectively, which terms shall be respectively designated upon the ballots of the electors voting for such officers. If the term of the superintendent in office will not expire with such succeeding year, there shall be elected two superintendents of the poor for such county, for such terms, to be so designated upon the ballots of the electors voting for such officers, as will make the terms of one of the three superintendents expire with each succeeding year, and one superintendent of the poor shall thereafter be annually elected. Such persons so

elected shall hold the office from and including the first day of January succeeding his election, and until and including the last day of December of the year in which his term shall so expire, and until his successor in duly elected and qualifies. When ballots are voted without designating the term, the first name on the ballot shall be deemed as intended for the full or longer term of the officer voted for; the second name for the next longer term, and the third name for the shorter term.

§ 221. Undertaking. Every person elected or appointed to the office of superintendent of the poor shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, and if appointed, within fifteen days after notice thereof, execute and deliver to the clerk of the county, to be filed in his office, his undertaking to the county, with two or more sufficient sureties, with the approval of the board of supervisors, if in session, indorsed thereon by the clerk; otherwise by the county judge of his county, or a justice of the supreme court of his judicial district, to the effect that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office as such superintendent of the poor, and pay according to law all moneys that shall come into his hands as such superintendent, and render a just and true account thereof to the board of supervisors of his county.

ARTICLE 15

MISCELLANEOUS

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242. County charges, how raised. The moneys necessary to defray the county charges of each county shall be levied on the taxable property in the several towns therein, in the manner prescribed in the general laws relating to taxes; and in order to enable the county treasurer to pay such expenses as may become payable from time to time, the board of supervisors shall annually cause such sum to be raised in advance in their county, as they may deem necessary for such purpose.

§ 243. Annual report of county officers.-Each county officer who shall receive, or is authorized by law to receive, any money on account of fines or penalties or other matter in which his county, or any town or city therein, shall have an interest, shall annually make a written report to the board of supervisors of his county, verified to be true, bearing date the first day of November, stating the time when, and the name of every person from whom, such money has been received, the amount thereof, on what account received, and the sums remaining due and unpaid; and if no such money has been received, his report shall so state. Such report shall be filed with the clerk of the board, on or before the fifth day of November; and no officer shall be entitled to receive payment for his services, unless he shall file with the supervisors, or other officers performing their duties, his affidavit that he has made such report, and paid over all moneys which he is required to pay over, within ninety days after receiving any such money. Such officers shall pay the same without any deduction to the treasurer of hist county, who shall execute duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall deliver to the person paying the money, and attach the other to his annual report herein required; but nothing herein shall be construed to apply to moneys received by any town or city officer in his official capacity, as such, specially appropriated for any town or city purpose.

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