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SARATOGA HOSPITAL, SARATOGA SPRINGS.

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, being the charter of the village of Saratoga Springs; and to enable the trustees of said village to raise moneys for certain purposes.

Chapter 115, Laws of 1896.

Section 1. The board of trustees of the village of Saratoga Springs is hereby authorized to appropriate to the Saratoga Emergency hospital, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of said hospital as may be received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, such sums annually as the said board of trustees shall deem proper, and payments may be made therefor subject to such rules. The amount so appropriated in any one year shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars; and such appropriation shall be made only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the village of Saratoga Springs, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital, and only so long as said hospital shali maintain a free medicine dispensary for the benefit of indigent persons, actual residents of said village.

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, being the charter of the village of Saratoga Springs, and to enable the trustees of said village to raise moneys for certain purposes.

Chapter 346, Laws of 1898.

Section 1. The board of trustees of the village of Saratoga Springs is hereby authorized to appropriate to the Saratoga hospital, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of said hospital as may be received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, in addition to the amounts now authorized by law, the further sum of fifteen hundred dollars. Such appropriation shall be made only in case said hospital shall establish a general operating room for surgical cases, where any regular physician or surgeon of the village

of Saratoga Springs may take his private patients and operate upon them under the same rules and regulations as the regular surgical staff of said hospital.

THRALL HOSPITAL, MIDDLETOWN.

AN ACT to revise and amend an act to incorporate the city of Middletown and the acts amendatory thereof.

Chapter 572, Laws of 1902.

§ 207. If at any time, after paying for the support of the city's poor and the city's share of the Orange county poor fund, there shall still be a balance in the excise fund, said balance may, by vote of the common council, be applied to the redemption of any tax certificates issued for schoolhouse purposes that may be outstanding and if there be no such certificates, then it shall be used to pay whatever annual appropriation is made for the maintenance of Thrall hospital and it may be used for such other public purposes as the common council may direct.

WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, WHITE PLAINS. AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of White Plains, to appropriate certain moneys to the White Plains hospital association of White Plains.

Chapter 115, Laws of 1905.

Section 1. The town board of the town of White Plains is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town of White Plains under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the White Plains Hospital association of White Plains, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of White Plains, owned and conducted by said association, as may be received therein, pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, a sum which in any one year sha!l not exceed fifteen hundred dollars, and such appropriation shall 12-VOL. 3

be made only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the town. of White Plains, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. The supervisor of the said town shall make payment of such moneys to said hospital association when authorized and directed so to do by the said town board, and such annual payment may commence at the time when this act goes into effect, or at any time thereafter, and may be made at such time or times and in such installments, or otherwise, as the said town board may direct, provided the same shall not in any one year exceed the aforesaid sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

WOMAN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, BATAVIA.

AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Batavia to appropriate certain moneys to the woman's hospital association of Batavia.

Chapter 151, Laws of 1904.

Section 1. The town board of the town of Batavia is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town of Batavia under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the woman's hospital association of Batavia, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of Batavia, owned and conducted by said association, as may be received therein pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, a sum which in any one year shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars; and such appropriation shall be made only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the said town of Batavia, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. The supervisor of the said town shall make payment of such moneys to said hospital association when authorized and directed so to do by the said town board, and such annual payment may commence at the time when this act goes into effect, or at any time thereafter, and may be made at such time or times and in such installments, or otherwise, as the said town board may direct, provided

the same shall not in any one year exceed the aforesaid sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

CHARTER OF NEW YORK CITY.

AN ACT to unite into one municipality under the name of The City of New York, the various communities lying in and about New York Harbor, including the city and county of New York, the city of Brooklyn and the county of Kings, the county of Richmond, and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for the government thereof.

Chapter 378, Laws of 1897, as amended by chapter 466, Laws of 1901. Items to be included in annual estimate.

§ 230. The board of estimate and apportionment shall, in addition to such other amounts as it may in its discretion provide for public purposes in The City of New York and the several counties wholly contained within its territorial limits, annually include in its final estimate the following sums, which shall annually be raised and appropriated:

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3. To the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for the support of every crippled child received and retained in their hospital for one year, and a proportionate sum for a shorter period.

4. To the New York Infirmary for Women and Children twenty-five dollars for each homeless or needy mother who received care and attendance in lying-in wards of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, for such care and obstetric attendance, and the further sum of eighteen dollars per month, and proportionately for any fraction of a month, for each mother thus domiciled and attended at the birth of her child, and for each homeless and needy mother with a nursing infant who resides at said infirmary at the request of or by permission of its officers, and wet, nurses her own infant, provided such residence shall exceed the period of two months, but the said monthly allowance of eighteen

dollars shall not be paid for a longer period than one year for any mother so remaining continuously. And to the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, twenty-five dollars for each. needy mother who has received care and obstetric attendance at her home or in the lying-in wards of the said hospital, for such care and obstetric attendance, and the further sum of eighteen dollars per month and proportionately for each fraction of a month for each mother attended at the birth of her child and domiciled at such hospital, but not for a longer period than one year, and also for each homeless or needy mother with a nursing infant who resides at said hospital at the request of or by permission of its officers and wet nurses her own infant, provided such residence shall exceed the period of two months. But such sums to the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women shall not exceed eight thousand dollars in the aggregate in any one

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*- To St. John's Guild of the city of New York, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be applied to the maintenance and operation of its hospitals, to the support of its other charitable work and to the general uses and purposes of said society.

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8. To the Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity and to the Babies' Hospital of the city of New York, respectively, at the rate of thirty-eight cents per day for each and every foundling or infant received and maintained by them. And also for each and every homeless and needy mother with a nursing infant, who shall reside at the asylum, or at said hospital, by request of its officers, and nurses her own infant, the sum of eighteen dollars per month. To the babies' wards of the Post-Graduate Hospital in the city of New York, at the rate of thirty-eight cents per day for each and every infant received and cared for therein.

9. To the Nursery and Child's Hospital, the sum of five dollars per week for every destitute woman admitted into its lying-in wards, according to the time of the said woman's continuing under the care of the said institution, and the further sum of ten dollars per month for each and every child born in the institution or supported and maintained by said institution, when

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