and the contract therefor shall be let to the lowest bidder, who shall furnish satisfactory security for its faithful performance, unless the council reject all bids therefor, which it may do; but no portion of the moneys authorized to be raised by this act shall be expended for the purchase of a site for an hospital building.

§ 3. The city of Lockport is hereby authorized to retain, for the purpose of a site for the said hospital, any real estate, which it may now own, or the title to which it may hereafter acquire through tax sale proceedings.

§ 4. After the construction of the said hospital building the control thereof shall vest in the board of health of said city, but said board shall not order the expenditure of any money or make any contract, with reference to said hospital, except by a majority vote of all its members, which vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered in the minutes. No expenditure or contract, amounting to one hundred dollars or more, shall be made without the consent of the common council, and before the board shall enter into a contract for the performance of any work or the furnishing of any supplies, the expense of which shall equal the sum of one hundred dollars, it shall, after having obtained the common council's consent, cause a notice to be published in three successive numbers of the official paper, inviting proposals for the same, according to plans and specifications then on file in its office, and such contract shall be let to the lowest bidder, who shall furnish satisfactory security for its faithful performance, unless the board rejects all bids therefor, which it may do.

5. The said board of health shall make rules and regulations for the conduct of said hospital, and shall fix the terms for care and board upon which persons, who are able to pay therefor, shall be admitted thereto. But no person shall be refused admission to said hospital because of his or her inability to pay. They shall also appoint all necessary employes, nurses and servants, and fix their compensation. All rules and regulations made by said board, all appointments hereunder and the compensation of any employes shall be subject to the approval of the common council. (As amended by chapter 199 of the Laws of 1908.)

§ 6. All moneys received for the board and care of patients treated in said hospital shall be paid to the treasurer of the city

of Lockport to the credit of the city hospital fund. (As amended by chapter 199 of the Laws of 1908.)

§ 7. Chapter four hundred twenty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred is hereby repealed. (As amended by chapter 199 of the Laws of 1908.)

Chapter 198, Laws of 1908.

§ 231. The common council shall have power in each year to cause a sum not exceeding the aggregate of the several sums hereinafter in this section specified, to be raised by general tax in said. city, whereof they may expend in each fiscal year for the several purposes hereinafter in this section specified, a sum not exceeding the amounts hereinafter severally designated therefor, namely: For the maintenance and repair of the city hospital, eight thousand dollars, to be known as the city hospital fund. (As amended by chapter 345 of the Laws of 1910.)

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Chapter 308, Laws of 1910.

Section 1. For the year nineteen hundred and ten, the common council of the city of Lockport is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of three thousand dollars for the purpose of improving, operating and maintaining the city hospital in said city, and to issue bonds for the same. Said bonds shall bear interest at not to exceed five per centum per annum, payable annually, and shall not be sold at less than par. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the city clerk of said city; and be sealed with the city seal, and the principal thereof shall be payable at the office of the city treasurer of said city, or at such other place as the common council thereof shall designate. The city treasurer shall invite sealed proposals for said bonds by public advertisement for not less than five days, and shall award the same to the highest bidder or bidders therefor, but no bonds authorized by this act shall be sold for less than the par value of the same. Said proposals shall be publicly opened by the city treasurer in the presence of the committee on finance of the common council, or such of them as shall attend, after one day's personal notice or a two day's notice by mail, and the time

and place of such opening to be given by the city treasurer. Onethird of the amount of the principal of the bonds so issued shall become due and payable one year from the date of the issue, and one-third of the principal thereof, each and every year thereafter until said bonds be fully paid. The common council of said city is authorized to raise by general tax levy in each and every year after the passage of this act the amount of principal and interest of said bonds due in each such year. The moneys received from the sale of the bonds shall be placed by the city treasurer to the credit of the city hospital fund, and shall be used only for the purposes of this act.

CITY OF KINGSTON HOSPITAL, KINGSTON.

AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and forty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the several acts in relation to the city of Kingston, to revise the charter of said city, and to establish a city court therein and define its jurisdiction and powers."

Chapter 91, Laws of 1900.

Section 1. Subdivision four of section seventy-seven of chapter seven hundred and forty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

4. Contract with the city of Kingston hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of the city poor thereat and expend therefor forty-five hundred dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

CORTLAND HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, CORTLAND.

AN ACT authorizing appropriations by the board of supervisors of Cortland county for the support and maintenance of inmates of the hospital of the Cortland hospital association.

Chapter 132, Laws of 1904.

Section 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Cortland, are hereby authorized to appropriate to the Cortland hospital association, a corporation located in said county, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of the hospital of said corporation, as may be received and retained therein, pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, such sums annually as said board of supervisors shall deem proper, and payment may be made therefor subject to such rules. The amount appropriated in any one year shall not exceed one thousand dollars. The board of managers of said corporation shall report annually in writing to the board of supervisors of such county the number of patients so received and cared for, with their names, age, sex, nature of discase or wounds and date of entrance and departure from the hospital.

THE ELMIRA CITY TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM.

AN ACT to authorize the city of Elmira to accept from Charles E. Rapelyea and Alice Spaulding Rapelyea a gift of certain land outside of the city of Elmira, with a hospital fully equipped for the treatment of tuberculosis patients, and to provide for the maintenance thereof.

Chapter 6, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. The acceptance by the common council of the city of Elmira of a gift to the city consisting of about eleven acres of land in the town of Elmira, with a hospital thereon for tuberculosis patients to be fully equipped by the donors, tendered to the city by Charles Rapelyea and Alice Spaulding Rapelyea subject to the following conditions: First: That the same be maintained from public funds of the city of Elmira; Second: That the same shall be free to the citizens of Elmira, except that the city may receive compensation for the care of patients who are able to pay therefor; Third: That if the same should at any time cease to be maintained by the city as a tuberculosis hospital that the same shall revert to the said donors, their heirs or assigns,

is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the said city is hereby authorized to make necessary provision for carrying out the objects of said gift and to comply with the conditions thereof, and to provide for the care, preservation and maintenance of said hospital.

§ 2. The said hospital shall be known as "The Elmira City Tuberculosis Sanatorium." The said city may acquire by con demnation additional lands if necessary adjacent thereto.

§ 3. The management of said hospital shall be vested in a board of managers, which shall consist of seven members until the death of the survivor of the donors, after which time the said board shall consist of six members, of which the mayor of the city and the health officer of the city shall be ex officio members. One of the members of said board shall be named by the said donors or the survivor of them; one of the members shall be a physician named by the Academy of Medicine of the city of Elmira; one of them shall be named by the members of the board of supervisors elected from the city of Elmira; the other two members shall be nominated by the mayor, subject to the approval of the common council of the city, one of whom shall be a member of the board of relief of the said city. The mayor shall be the chairman of said board. The terms of office of the said managers shall be two years from the date of their appointment and until their successors are named. No member of the said board of managers shall receive compensation for his services, or be financially interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract made in behalf of said hospital by said board. In case of death or resignation of any member of the board the successor of such member shall be appointed for the unexpired term of said member in the same manner in which said member was originally appointed thereto.

§ 4. Said board of managers shall make rules and regulations for the conduct of said hospital. It shall make all needful bylaws, rules and regulations for the government of the proceedings of the said board of managers, and shall fix the terms for care and board upon which all persons who are able to pay therefor shall be admitted thereto; but no person, resident of the city of Elmira, shall be refused admission to said hospital because