supervisor of any town, ward or city where such child resides, showing by satisfactory affidavit or other proof that the health, morals, comfort or welfare of such child may be endangered or not properly cared for if not placed in such colony; and thereupon it shall be the duty of such officer or board to whom such application may be made to place such child in said colony. The board of supervisors shall provide for the support of such patients, except those properly supported by the state, and may recover for the same from the parents or guardians of such children. In the admission of patients preference shall always be given to poor or indigent epileptics, or the epileptic children of poor or indigent persons, over all others; and preference shall always be given to such as are able to support themselves only in part, or who have parents able to support them only in part, over those who are able or who have parents who are able wholly to furnish such support.

§ 110. Support of state patients.- State patients shall be nãovided with proper board, lodging, medical treatment, care and tuition; and the managers of the colony shall receive for cach state patient supported therein a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; which payments, if any, shall be made by the treasurer of the state, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the treasurer of said colony, on his presenting the bill of the actual time and number of patients in the colony, signed and verified by the superintendent and treasurer of the colony and by the president and secretary of its board of managers. The supervisors of any county from which such patients may have been received into the colony shall cause to be raised annually while such patients remain in the colony, the sum of thirty dollars for each of such state patients for the purpose of furnishing suitable clothing, and the same shall be paid to the treasurer of the colony on or before the first day of April of each year.

§ 111. Apportionment of state patients. Whenever applications are made at one time for admission of more state patients than can be properly accommodated in the colony, the managers shall so apportion the number received, that each county may represented in a ratio of its dependent epileptic population to

be

the dependent epileptic population of the state, as shown by statistics furnished by the state board of charities.

§ 112. The support of private patients. The superintendent of the colony may agree with any epileptic who may be of age, or his committee or guardian, or with the parents, guardian or committee of any epileptic child, or with any person for the entire or partial support, maintenance, clothing, tuition, training, care and treatment of such epileptic in the colony, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed in the by-laws or approved by the managers. Every patient, guardian, committee or other person applying for the admission into the colony of an epileptic who is, or whose parents or guardians are of sufficient ability to provide for his support and maintenance therein, shall at the time of his admission, exccute a bond to the treasurer of the colony with one or more sureties, to be approved by the superintendent and treasurer, in such sum as the managers shall prescribe, to the effect that the obligers will pay to the treasurer of the colony all sums of money at such time or times as shall be so agreed upon, and remove such epileptic from the colony free of expense to the managers within twenty days after the service of the notice hereinafter provided for. If such epileptic, his parents or guardian are of sufficient ability to pay only a part of the expenses of supporting and maintaining him at the institution, such undertaking shall be only for such partial support and maintenance and for removal from the institution as above mentioned; and the treasurer may take security by such obligation or in his discretion by note or other written agreement, with or without sureties, as he may deem proper for such part of such expenses as the epileptic, his parents or guardians are able to pay; but such exercise of discretion shall be with the approval of the superintendent and a committee of the managers in a manner that shall be prescribed in the by-laws. Notice to remove a patient shall be in writing, signed by the superintendent and directed to the epileptic, his parents, guardian, committee or other person upon whose request the patient was received at the colony, at the place of residence mentioned in such request, and deposited in the postoffice at Sonyea or any post-office in Livingston county, the postage prepaid.

§ 113. Discharge of patients. The superintendent of the colony, with the approval of the managers or of a committee thereof, shall have power to discharge patients, but no epileptic patient shall be returned to any poorhouse, directly through a superintendent of the poor, or otherwise. In case a patient, not an epileptic, shall be sent to the colony, through mistaken diagnosis of his disease, or other cause, and there received, such patient shall be returned to and the traveling expenses of such return. shall be paid by the person who sent him or her to the colony. Should an epileptic become insane, such patient, if a state patient, shall be sent to the state hospital of the district of which he was a resident just prior to his admission to the colony in the manner prescribed by law. The bills for the reasonable expenses incurred in the transportation of state patients to and from the state hospitals after they have been approved in writing by the state commission in lunacy, shall be paid by the treasurer of the state on the warrant of the comptroller from the funds provided for the support of the state hospitals. In case the relatives, guardians or friends of such an insane patient desire that he become an inmate of any state hospital situated beyond the limits of the district of which he was formerly a resident, and there be sufficient accommodations in such state hospital, he shall be received there in the manner provided by law for the transfer of other insane persons. Private patients, who may become insane, shall be committed, as prescribed by law, subject to the regulations of the state commission in lunacy, to such institution for the insane as may be designated by the relatives, guardians or friends of such insane person, all traveling and other expenses of removal to be paid by them. After any patient has been delivered to the managers or officers of such hospital or institution, the care and custody of the managers of the colony over such insane person shall cease; and after any patient shall as aforesaid, be so certified to be insane as prescribed by law, such patient shall come under the supervision of the state commission in lunacy.

§ 114. Notice of opening of colony. So soon as the colony shall be ready for the reception of patients, it shall be the duty of the board of managers officially to send notice of such fact to the county clerks and the clerks of the boards of supervisors of

the respective counties of the state, and the secretary of the state board of charities; and to furnish such clerks of counties and boards of supervisors with suitable blanks for the commitment of epileptics to such colony.

115. Reimbursement for maintenance expenses. The agent appointed as provided in this article shall secure from relatives or friends who are liable therefor, or who may be willing to assume the cost of maintenance of any inmate therein, who is not maintained as a private patient, reimbursement in whole or in part of the money expended by the state for such purpose. Such agent shall perform such other duties as the board of managers may prescribe. If the board of managers believes that any inmate of such colony, not maintained therein as a private patient, has any property, or that any relative who would be liable for his support if he were not an inmate of such institution is of sufficient ability to wholly or partly provide for his maintenance therein, such board of managers may apply to a justice of the supreme court of the judicial district in which such institution is located for an order directing the application of the property of such inmate to his maintenance in such institution, or requiring the relatives so liable for his support to pay to such institution at the time specified in such order a stated amount for such maintenance. At least ten days' notice of the application of such order shall be given to such persons and in such manner as such justice shall direct, and such order shall be granted only after a hearing of parties interested who appear and desire to be heard. The relatives against whom such proceeding is instituted and who are served with the notice of the application for the order shall be deemed to be of sufficient ability, unless the contrary shall affirmatively appear to the satisfaction of such justice. If more than one relative is liable for the support of such inmate and is of sufficient ability to contribute to the expense of his maintenance in such institution, such order shall determine the portion of the expense of his maintenance to be paid by each. If the property of such inmate is not applied as directed in such order, or the relatives liable for the support. of such inmate refuse or neglect to comply with such order, the board of managers of such colony may bring an action in the name

of such institution to recover the amount due such institution by virtue of such order. (As amended by chapter 459 of the Laws of 1905.)

ARTICLE VIII.

*INSTITUTIONS FOR JUVENILE DELINQUENTS.

Section 120. State industrial school; managers.

121. Managers of House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents in New York city.

122. Powers and duties of managers.

123. Superintendent.

124. Commitment of children.

125. Register.

126. Discipline and control of inmates.

127. Military drill.

128. Transfer of inmates to penitentiary or Elmira reformatory.

129. Confinement of juvenile delinquents under sentences by the courts of the United States.

130. Effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics to be taught. 131. Establishing New York state training school for girls.

132. Appointment of managers.

132a. General powers and duties of managers

133. General powers of superintendent.

134. Oaths and bonds.

135. Commitments; papers furnished by committing

magistrates.

136. Return of females improperly committed.

137. Disposition of children of females so committed.

138. Conveyance of females committed.

139. Detentions and rearrests in cases of escape.

139a. Employment of inmates.

139b. Clothing and money to be furnished discharged

inmates.

139c. Confinement of female juvenile delinquents under sentences by the courts of the United States.

* See also chapter 470 of the Laws of 1893, page 90.