Orange, or by any other officers of said city or town arising from licenses granted in said city and town under the laws of this State regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors, or for penalties incurred for violations of such laws committed in said city or town, shall be paid over by the officers receiving the same within twenty days after they shall receive the same to the commissioners of the almshouse of the city and town of Newburgh, for the support of the poor of said city and town.

§ 4. All fines imposed or hereafter to be imposed by the recorder of the city of Newburgh, or by any justice of the peace of the town of Newburgh, or by any court of criminal jurisdiction in the county of Orange, for drunkenness, or for violation of any of the laws of this state relating to intoxicating liquors, or the sale thereof, shall be paid over by the officer or officers receiving such fines to the commissioners of the almshouse of the city and town of Newburgh, for the support of the poor of said city and town.

§ 5. All acts or parts of acts relating to the support of the poor in the city and town of Newburgh, in the county of Orange, and to the sale of intoxicating liquors, so far as the latter are applicable to said city and town, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of the home of the city and town of Newburgh to purchase lands adjoining the premises owned by them.

Chapter 224, Laws of 1913.

§ 1. The corporation created by chapter forty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An act for the better support of the poor in the town of Newburgh in the county of Orange," the name of which corporation was changed by chapter four hundred and sixty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and five to the commissioners of the home of the city and town of Newburgh is hereby authorized in its discretion to purchase in fee simple and take a deed of conveyance to the said commissioners, in their corporate name, of a farm of land situate in the town of New Windsor, and owned by Henry Spengler, and adjoining on the south the premises of the said commissioners, and to pay for said farm not exceeding the sum of seven thousand dollars.

§ 2. The said corporation shall and it is hereby authorized to raise the said sum of seven thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, in the same manner as are taxes raised to meet other audits of the said commissioners.

New Rochelle, Westchester County.

(Note. Commissioner of charities appointed by the mayor for a term of three years at a salary fixed by board of estimate and apportionment.)

Chapter 559, Laws of 1910.

ARTICLE XXVIII.

Department of Charities.

Section 401. Commissioner of charities.

402. Powers and duties.

403. City ownership of supplies.
404. Liability of city.

§ 401. Commissioner of charities. The commissioner of charities who is in office when this act takes effect shall be the commissioner of charities until the expiration of his term of office and until his successor is appointed and qualifies. His salary shall be fixed by the board of estimate and apportionment. Before enter ing upon the discharge of the duties of his office, the commissioner shall execute and file with the city clerk an official undertaking in such penal sum as may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment.

§ 402. Powers and duties. The commissioner shall have the supervision of the expenditure of the money of the city appropriated for the relief of the poor. He shall have control of the charities of the city. He shall investigate all applications for relief, and may examine any applicant under oath. He shall investigate the condition of anyone who is or is likely to become a public charge. He shall institute and prosecute all actions and proceedings authorized by law to compel those liable therefor to contribute to the care and support of any such destitute or dependent persons, and to indemnify the city for or against any

expenditures on account thereof. He shall prosecute all bonds, undertakings or recognizances given for any of the purposes herein. mentioned. All moneys recovered in any proceeding, or otherwise received by the commissioner, except budget appropriations, for the purposes herein specified shall be deposited with the city treasurer as a trust fund, and shall be applied by the commis sioner for the respective purposes as may be necessary. Any unexpended balance of any such trust shall be paid into the sinking fund. The commissioner shall file with the comptroller a monthly statement in detail of all receipts and expenditures, with the names and addresses of all recipients. The commissioner may certify charitable cases to the New Rochelle Hospital under the provisions of section sixty-nine of this act. The commissioner shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by

law.

§ 403. City ownership of supplies. The city shall be the owner of supplies furnished to any applicant for relief until the same are consumed. If any person sells or exchanges any supplies so furnished for money or intoxicating liquors or disposes of the same in any way other than that directed he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 404. Liability of city. Nothing contained in this act shall make the city liable for the support or relief of any poor person when it is not otherwise so liable.

New York City.

(Note.-Commissioner of charities appointed by the mayor for a term of four years at an annual salary of $7,500.)

Chapter 378, Laws of 1897, as Amended by Chapter 466, Laws of 1901.

CHAPTER XIII

TITLE 1.

Department of Public Charities.

§ 658. Commissioner of public charities; jurisdiction; salary. The head of the department of public charities shall be called the commissioner of public charities. The terms of

office of the members of the board of public charities, except the president thereof, appointed pursuant to the provisions of the Greater New York charter shall cease and determine on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and two, and the president of the said board of public charities shall thereupon become the commissioner of public charities. The salary of the commissioner of public charities shall be seven thousand five hundred dollars a year. The principal office of the department shall be in the borough of Manhattan. There may be a branch office in each of the other boroughs.

§ 659. Rules and regulations; subordinate officers. The said commissioner shall have power to establish general rules and regulations for the administration of the department and the government of the institutions under its jurisdiction except the institutions specified in section six hundred and sixty-one of this act and except as provided in title two of this chapter, and such general rules and regulations shall be so far as practicable uniform in all the boroughs. The commissioner shall have power to appoint and in his discretion to remove not more than three deputies, to be known as first deputy, second deputy, and third deputy, and shall define their duties. The first deputy shall during the absence or disability of the commissioner possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the commissioner except the power of making appointments. In the absence or disability of both the commissioner and the first deputy, the second deputy shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the commissioner, except the power of making appointments. In the absence or disability of the commissioner and the first and second deputies, the third deputy shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the commissioner, except the power of making appointments. The commissioner, within the limits of his appropriation, shall have power to appoint and remove subject to the requirements of the civil service laws such subordinate officers and assistants as may be necessary for the efficient performance of his duties as said commissioner. (As amended by chapter 330 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 660. Public institutions under the jurisdiction of the commissioner. The commissioner shall have jurisdiction

over, and it shall be his duty to take charge of and to establish and enforce rules and regulations for all hospitals, asylums, almshouses and other institutions belonging to or hereafter acquired or estab lished by the city of New York, which are or shall be devoted to the care of the feeble-minded, the sick, the infirm and the destitute; except the island known as Ward's Island and the buildings and improvements thereon, and the equipment, fixtures and furniture of the asylums for the insane on said island during the continuance of the lease thereof heretofore made by the city of New York to the State of New York, and except the hospitals specified in title two of this chapter and such other institutions as are by law placed under the charge of some other department or board. Such buildings and grounds on Blackwell's Island as are now used for the care of the insane pursuant to the provisions of chapter two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six shall, when the insane shall have been removed therefrom, and the buildings and grounds, together with the equipments, fixtures and furniture of the buildings now leased to the state by the county of Kings for the care of the insane, when said lease expires, shall be under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of public charities.

§ 661. Payments to private institutions. No payment shall be made by the city of New York to any charitable, eleemosynary or reformatory institution wholly or partly under private control, for the care, support, secular education, or maintenance of any child surrendered to such institution, or committed to, received or retained therein in accordance with sections six hundred and sixty-four, six hundred and sixty-five, six hundred and sixtysix and six hundred and sixty-seven of this act, except upon the certificate of the commissioner of public charities that such child has been received and is retained by such institution pursuant to the rules and regulations established by the state board of charities. Moneys paid by The City of New York to any such institution for the care, support, secular education or maintenance of its inmates shall not be expended for any other purpose. Whenever the commissioner shall decide, after reasonable notice to the institution and a hearing, that any such child as aforesaid who is received and retained in such institution is not a proper charge against the public, and notice of such decision in writing is given by him to such institution, thereupon all right on the part of said institution to