§ 414. Papers furnished by committing magistrate. It shall be the duty of every justice of the peace, police justice or other magistrate or court committing any woman under authority given by this article immediately to notify the superintendent of said Anchorage of such conviction, and to cause a record to be kept of the name, age, birthplace, occupation, previous commitment, if any, and for what offenses (and last place of residence of such woman or women) so committed by them together with the particulars of the offense charged. A copy of said record shall be transmitted with the warrant of commitment to the superintendent of said Anchorage, who shall enter and keep in a book of record all these and such other facts as are by law required concerning inmates of poor-houses.

§ 415. Determination as to age. Any court or magistrate authorized to commit any female to said Anchorage shall before so committing her inquire into and for the purpose of the case determine the age of such female at the time of such commitment, and her age as so determined shall be stated in the warrant; and when the year only is stated, it shall be considered as expiring on the day on which the warrant is dated and the statement of age of such female so made in said warrant of commitment shall be conclusive evidence as to the age of said female in any action to recover damages for her detention or imprisonment under said warrant, and shall be presumptive evidence of the age of such female in any other inquiry, action or proceeding relating to such detention.

§ 416. Removal and resentence of insubordinate inmates. Whenever any person committed to such institution by a magistrate, court or justice of the peace, as provided in this article, shall by reason of insubordination or other improper conduct, prove, in the judgment of the executive committee of said institution, to be an improper subject for care in said Anchorage, it shall be the duty of the executive committee of said Anchorage thereupon to cause the return of such female to the county from which she was committed in the custody of one

of the persons employed by said executive committee to convey to said Anchorage women committed thereto, who shall deliver her into the custody of the sheriff of such county, to be by said sheriff taken before the court or magistrate which committed her to said Anchorage, or some other court or magistrate having equal jurisdiction in such county, to be by such court or magistrate resentenced for the offense for which she was committed to said Anchorage, and dealt with in all respects as though she had not been committed to said Anchorage, and in such case all costs and expenses incurred and paid by said board of trustees on account of such female so returned shall be a county charge upon such county to be levied and collected as other taxes in said county and paid over to said board of trustees and credited to the account to which such expenses were charged.

§ 417. Disposition of children of women so committed. In case any woman committed to said Anchorage at the time of such commitment shall be the mother of a nursing child in her care under one year of age, or be pregnant with child which shall be born after such commitment, such child may accompany its mother and remain in said Anchorage until such time as in the opinion of the board of trustees such child can properly be removed therefrom and suitably provided for elsewhere.

§ 418. Powers of superintendent. For the safe management and discipline of said Anchorage the superintendent thereof is hereby given and is required to exercise. in regard to women committed to said Anchorage, the same power as jail keepers and constables have in regard to persons committed or held in custody of said officers.

§ 419. Freedom of worship. Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of the freedom of worship of any inmate confined within said institution, as provided by the constitution of the state of New York.

ARTICLE 22

General Provisions Applicable to Chari table Institutions

Section 450. Reports to supervisors of appointments and com mittals to charitable institutions.

451. Reports by officers of certain institutions to clerks of supervisors and cities.

452. Verified accounts against counties, cities and towns. 453. Dutchess county.

454. Construction of last section.

455. Female attendants for feeble-minded women in transit to or from institution.

456. Investigation of complaints by boards of managers. 457. Fees of witnesses.

458. Designation of depository of funds.

459. Labor of children not to be hired out.

460. Commitments to institutions.

461. Commitments of feeble-minded.

§ 450. Reports to supervisors of appointments and committals to charitable institutions. Every judge, justice, superintendent or overseer of the poor, supervisor or other person who is authorized by law to make appointments or commitments to any state charitable institution, in which the board, instruction, care or clothing is a charge against any county, town or city, shall make a written report to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which any town is situated, or to the city clerk of any city, which is liable for any such board, instruction, care or clothing, within ten days after such appointment or commitment, and shall therein state, when known, the nationality, age, sex and residence of each person so appointed or committed and the length of time of such appointment or commitment. This and the two following sections shall apply to each of the asylums, reformatories, homes. retreats, penitentiaries, jails or other institutions, except alms houses, in each of the counties of this state, except the county of

Kings, in which the board, instruction, care or clothing of persons committed thereto is, or shall be, a charge against any county or town therein.

§ 451. Reports by officers of certain institutions to clerks of supervisors and cities. The keeper, superintendent, secretary, director or other proper officer of state charitable institution to which any person is committed or appointed, whose board, care, instruction, tuition or clothing shall be chargeable to any city, town or county, shall make a written report to the clerk of such city or to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which such town is situated, within ten days after receiving such person therein. Such report shall state when such person was received into the institution, and, when known, the name, age, sex, nationality, residence, length of time of commitment or appointment, the name of the officer making the same and the sum chargeable per week, month or year for such person. If any person so appointed or committed to any such institution shall die, be removed or discharged, such officers shall immediately report to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which such town is situated, or to the city clerk of the city from which such person was committed or appointed, the date of such death, removal or discharge.

§ 452. Verified accounts against counties, cities and towns. The officers mentioned in the last section shall annually, on or before the fifteenth day of October, present to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, or of the county in which such town is situated, or to the city clerk of a city from which any such person is committed or appointed, a verified report and statement of the account of such institution with such county, town or city, up to the first day of October, and in case of a claim for clothing, an itemized statement of the same; and if a part of the board, care, tuition or clothing has been paid by any person or persons, the account shall show what sum has been so paid; and the report shall show the name, age, sex, nationality and residence of each person mentioned in the account, the name

of the officer who made the appointment or commitment, and the date and length of the same, and the time to which the account has been paid, and the amount claimed to such first day of October, the sum per week or per annum charged, and if no part of such account has been paid, the report shall show such fact. Any officer who shall refuse or neglect to make such report shall not be entitled to receive any compensation or pay for any services, salary or otherwise, from any town, city or county affected thereby. The clerk of the board of supervisors who shall receive any such report or account shall file and present the same to the board of supervisors of his county on the second day of the annual meeting of the board next after the receipt of the same.

§ 453. Dutchess county. All insane, idiotic, blind and deaf and dumb persons, the expense of whose support and maintenance now is, or, under the laws of the state of New York, may become a charge upon the city of Poughkeepsie, or the county of Dutchess, exclusive of said city, or both, and who are maintained, or shall be maintained, in any of the institutions of the state of New York, shall be supported by said county of Dutchess as one district. All institutions in the state of New York main. taining any such person whose support is properly chargeable, or shall be properly chargeable, to said city or county, are hereby required to render to the county treasurer of said county all bills for the support of such persons without any distinction between those persons from the different parts of said county.

§ 454. Construction of last section. The last section shall not be held to affect chapter two hundred and eighty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, an act for the better support of the poor in the city of Poughkeepsie, except as to the class of persons herein named.

§ 455. Female attendants for feeble-minded women in transit to or from institutions. In every order, com