SALE OF ALE AND BEER AT THE NEW YORK STATE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' HOME, BATH. AN ACT authorizing the sale of ale and beer upon the premises of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home of Bath, New York, and providing for the expenditure of the net proceeds therefrom. Chapter 900, Laws of 1896. Section 1. The trustees of the New York Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Bath, New York, upon complying with the provisions of chapter one hundred and twelve, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, of the state of New York, are hereby authorized to sell ale and beer to the members of said home, upon the premises of said home, under such rules and regulations as said trustees shall prescribe, and the provisions of clause one, section twenty-four and clause six of section thirty of said chapter one hundred and twelve of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetysix shall not apply to such New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home. § 2. The said trustees shall expend the net proceeds of such sales for the support of the library and reading room of said home and for such other purposes as they shall deem best for the comfort and amusement of the members of said home. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. EXEMPTED FROM THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES. AN ACT relating to the state board of charities and their control and management of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home. Chapter 769, Laws of 1900. Section 1. Soldiers and sailors' home exempted. The New York state soldiers and sailors' home is hereby exempted from the management and control of the state board of charities and in respect to said institution said board are hereafter only to exercise their constitutional right to visit and inspect. § 2. Repeal.-All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. NEW YORK STATE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS HOME, AN ACT to provide for the establishment of a home for the aged and dependent veteran and his wife, veterans' mothers, widows, and army nurses, residents of New York. Chapter 468, Laws of 1894. Section 1. Establishment of home. There shall be established in this state a home for the aged dependent veteran and his wife, veterans' mothers, widows, and army nurses, which shall be located within the state at a point which shall be determined as hereinafter provided, said home to be known as "New York State Woman's Relief Corps Home." (As amended by chapter 47 of the Laws of 1897.) § 2. Board of managers. It shall be the duty of the governor within thirty days after the passage of this act, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint nine residents of the state, six of whom shall be women and three men, to constitute a board of managers of said home who shall hold office, three for two, three for four, and three for six years, respectively, as shall be indicated by the governor on making the appointment, and thereafter all appointments except to fill vacancies in said board shall be for six years and shall be made by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. majority of the board of managers shall be appointed from the members of the grand army of the republic of the department of New York and the women's relief corps, auxiliary to the grand army of the republic, department of New York. Whenever a vacancy occurs in said board after the expiration of a term of office or by resignation or removal or otherwise, the governor 7-VOL. 3 A shall appoint a resident of the state to fill such vacancy, but when an appointment shall be made to fill an unexpired term, the governor shall so indicate at the time of making the appointment, and the person so appointed shall hold office only until the close of the unexpired term, and appointments shall be so made that there will be at all times six women and three men as members of said board. (As amended by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.) § 3. Official oath.- Before entering on their duties the said managers shall respectively take and subscribe to the usual oath of office, which oath may be taken and subscribed before the judge of any court of record of this state, or any notary public having a seal, and shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. 84. Compensation and expenses.- Said managers shall receive no compensation for their time of services, but the actual and necessary expenses of each of them while engaged in the performance of his or her office, and any expenses of said board incurred in the performance of the duties imposed by this act, on being presented in writing and verified by affidavit, shall be paid by the treasurer of said board of managers. § 5. Organization of board. It shall be the duty of said board of managers immediately after their appointment to meet and organize by the election of a president, secretary and an executive committee from their number. (As amended by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.) 6. Report to legislature.- Said board of managers shall annually on or before January fifteenth, make to the legislature a detailed report of its proceedings for the preceding fiscal year, together with a complete statement of its receipts and expenditures, the condition of the institution, and full estimates of the appropriation required for its maintenance including therein ordinary repairs. It shall also include in its report a statement of any special appropriations required and the reasons therefor. (As amended by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.) 7. Purchase of site and erection of buildings.- Whenever any site shall have been selected, and contract for the purchase of the same made and approved by the legislature, and an appropri ation for the payment thereof, and the erection of the buildings thereon made by the legislature of this state, it shall be the duty of said board of managers to purchase such site and to erect suitable buildings thereon for the care, maintenance and relief of aged dependent veterans and their wives, veterans' mothers, widows, and army nurses who, from any cause, need the care and benefits of a home, and to do all things necessary and requisite in the premises. 8. Admission to home.-Whenever said lands shall have been purchased, buildings erected and said home ready for occu pancy, every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who served in the army or navy of the United States, for a period not less than ninety days, during the war of the rebellion, and who shall have been a resident of this state for one year next preceding the application for admission, and the wives, widows and mothers of any such honorably discharged soldier or sailor, and army nurses, who served in said army or navy and whose residence was at the time of the commencement of such service or whose residence shall have been for one year next preceding his or her application for admission to said home within the state of New York, and who shall need the aid or benefit of said home, in consequence of physical disability or other cause within the scope of the regulations of the board shall be entitled to admission to said home, after the approval of the application by the board of managers and subject to the conditions, limitations and penalties prescribed by the rules and regulations adopted by said board. Provided, however, said soldier or sailor shall be a married man and shall accompanied or attended by his wife during the time he may be an inmate of said home, but no wife or widow of a soldier shall be admitted as an inmate of said home unless due and sufficient proof is presented of her marriage to such soldier or sailor at least fifteen years prior to the date of such application. (As amended by chapter 597 of the Laws of 1907.) be 89. Powers of the board of managers.-The board of managers shall have charge of all of the affairs of the institution, with power to make all necessary by-laws, rules, and regulations, for its government and proper management, and for the admission and discharge of inmates. It shall have prower to select a treas urer, to appoint and remove a superintendent of the institution, who shall be its chief executive officer. It shall also have power to appoint such other subordinate officers as may be necessary, and for just cause remove any or all of them from office. Under proper rules, and regulations and in accordance with the provisions of the civil service law they may delegate the power to hire and discharge subordinate employees to the superintendent. (Added by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.) § 10. Record. The board of managers shall keep in a book provided for that purpose and kept in the institution, a fair and full record of the doings of the board; which shall be open at all times to the inspection of its members and such other persons and officers of the state as are by law vested with the powers of visitation and inspection, or appointed by the governor, the legislature, or other competent authority to make an inspection or investigation of the institution. (Added by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.) THE THOMAS INDIAN SCHOOL, IROQUOIS. AN ACT to authorize the transfer of Indian children from the Thomas Indian school to other asylums, hospitals or institutions for the custody and care of orphan, dependent or sick children, and to provide for their care, support and eatment therein. Chapter 242, Laws of 1896. Section 1. Transfers.- Whenever the number of Indian children in The Thomas Indian school, on the Cattaraugus Reservation, duly admitted thereto, shall be in excess of its proper capacity or the applications for admission of such Indian children to such asylum shall exceed its proper accommodations therefor, or whenever, in the opinion of the trustees of such asylum, the comfort and well being of any such Indian children therein will likely be promoted by their removal to other asylums, hospitals or institutions for the custody, care and treatment of orphan, dependent or sick children, they may, with the approval of the |