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thereof to each and all of the several courts in their respective counties and to each and all of the several justices of the supreme court and other judges, justices and magistrates, residing or sitting in their respective counties. Thereafter any such court or magistrate may commit to the said colony to be there detained under the provisions of this act any male over the age of twentyone who shall be adjudged by such court or magistrate to be a vagrant or tramp; but no person shall be so committed who shall satisfy the said court or magistrate that he habitually supports himself through lawful employment. It is the intent and meaning of this act that reputable workmen, temporarily out of work and seeking employment, shall not be deemed tramps or vagrants nor be committed as such to the said colony, nor shall any person be committed to the said colony for any other cause than herein provided. Any person who shall be committed to the said colony shall be detained therein according to this act and not otherwise, anything in the penal law to the contrary notwithstanding. Such commitment shall not be for a definite term but any such male, at any time after his commitment, may be paroled, or discharged by the said board of managers, and shall not in any case be detained longer than two years and unless he shall since reaching the age of sixteen have been previously committed to a penal institution, he shall not be detained longer than eighteen months. If through oversight or otherwise any male be committed to the said colony for a definite period of time, such commitment shall not for that reason be void, but the person so committed shall be entitled to the benefit and subject to the liabilities of this act, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the commitment had been made according to the terms prescribed by this act.

§ 5. Provisions of code of criminal procedure to be followed. In the commitment of tramps and vagrants to the state industrial farm colony the provisions of the code of criminal procedure with relation to such classes shall, so far as consistent with the provisions of this act, be observed and followed. Persons committed as vagrants shall be local charges as provided in such code, and those committed as tramps shall be maintained at the expense of the state as at present but in no event shall any localVOL. 3-10

ity be charged a greater amount for the care of vagrants than the actual per capita cost of their maintenance in such state industrial farm colony.

§ 6. Appropriation. The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the purposes of this act.

Western New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes, Rochester.

AN ACT in relation to the Western New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes.

Chapter 331, Laws of 1876.

§ 1. Reception of pupils. The Western New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes, at Rochester, is hereby authorized to receive deaf and dumb persons between the ages of twelve and twenty-five years, eligible to appointment as state pupils, and who may be appointed to it by the superintendent of public instruction, and the superintendent of public instruction is authorized to make appointments to said institution in the same manner and upon the same conditions as to the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.

§ 2. Powers of supervisors, etc. Supervisors of towns and wards and overseers of the poor are hereby authorized to send to the Western New York Institution for Deaf-Mutes, deaf and dumb persons between the ages of six and twelve years, in the same manner and upon the same conditions as such persons may be sent to the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, under the provisions of chapter three hundred and twenty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

State Reformatory for Misdemeanants. AN ACT to establish a state reformatory for misdemeanants. Chapter 502, Laws of 1912.

Section 1. Establishment and purposes. A state reformatory for misdemeanants is hereby established for the refor

mation and the educational, industrial and moral instruction and training of males under conviction and sentence for commission of misdemeanors or other minor offenses.

§ 2. Board of managers. The general management and control of the said state reformatory for misdemeanants shall be in charge of a board of managers appointed pursuant to the provisions of the state charities law.

§ 3. Selection of site and construction. The said board shall proceed forthwith to select a site for the said reformatory and, upon the approval of the governor, to purchase such site. In the selection of the site, due consideration shall be given to healthfulness of location, fertility of soil, water supply, drainage and accessibility. It shall be the duty of the said board to prepare the grounds so purchased for use as a site for the said reformatory, to provide a water supply and system of drainage therefor, to determine what buildings are necessary to be erected thereon for the proper housing and educational and industrial training of not less than five hundred inmates, and to act as a board of managers in the erection of the said buildings and in the expenditure of the moneys herein or hereafter appropriated for the purchase and improvement of the said site. In all the work of construction and improvement, the labor of convicts shall be employed wherever and so far as practicable. Each of the said managers shall receive his necessary expenses incurred in connection with his work for the said reformatory.

§ 4. Commitment; term of detention. As soon as the said buildings and improvements shall be completely finished or so far finished as to be ready for use as a reformatory and ready for the reception of inmates, the said managers shall officially notify the several county clerks of all the counties of the state of that fact. It shall be the duty of the said county clerks immediately on receipt of the said official notification to transmit a copy thereof to each and all of the several courts in their respective counties and to each and all of the several justices of the supreme court and other judges, justices and magistrates, residing or sitting in their

respective counties. Thereafter any male between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years inclusive, convicted by any court or magistrate of a misdemeanor, or other minor offense for which he might be sentenced to imprisonment, may be sentenced and committed to the said institution, to be there confined, as herein provided. Such commitments shall not be for a definite term, but any such male at any time after his commitment may be paroled or discharged by the said board of managers, but shall not in any case be detained longer than three years. If through oversight or otherwise any male be sentenced to imprisonment in the said institution for a definite period of time, such sentence shall not for that reason be void, but the person so sentenced shall be entitled to the benefits and subject to the liabilities of this act, in the same manner and to the same extent as if such sentence had been for an indefinite period of time, in the manner herein provided for. Commitments to the said institution shall be as herein. provided, anything in the penal law to the contrary notwithstanding. In rendering such sentence, preference may be given to minors, over adults, in view of the limited room in said reformatory of the reception of inmates.

§ 5. Appropriation. The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act. Out of this sum shall be paid, by the comptroller on the audit of the said board of managers, the expenses of the said board as herein before provided for as well as the purchase price of the site for the said reformatory. Any balance remaining of the said appropriation shall be paid by the comptroller to the said board of managers on their requisition, and shall be by them applied toward the preparation and improvement of said site as hereinbefore directed, toward the procuring of the necessary plans and specifications for the buildings to be erected on the said site, and toward the erection of the said buildings, so far as the said appropriation shall be sufficient for such purposes.

EDUCATION LAW.

Chapter 21 of the Laws of 1909 as amended by Chapter 140 of the Laws of 1910. Chapter 16 of the Consolidated Laws.

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Medical Inspection.

Section 570. Medical inspection to be provided. 571. Employment of medical inspector. 572. Pupils to furnish health certificates.

573. Examination by medical inspector.

574. Record of examinations; eye and ear tests.
575. Existence of contagious diseases; return after
illness.

576. Enforcement of law.

577. State medical inspection of schools.

Medical

§ 570. Medical inspection to be provided. inspection shall be provided for all pupils attending the public schools in this state, except in cities of the first class, as provided in this article. Medical inspection shall include the services of a trained registered nurse, if one is employed, and shall also include such services as may be rendered as provided herein in examining pupils for the existence of disease or physical defects and in testing the eyes and ears of such pupils.

§ 571. Employment of medical inspectors. The board of education in each city and union free school district, and the trustee or board of trustees of a common school district, shall employ, at a compensation to be agreed upon by the parties, a competent physician residing in the city or district or, in case of a common school district, in the town where such district is situated, as a medical inspector, to make inspections of pupils attending the public schools in the city or district. The physicians so employed shall be legally qualified to practice medicine in this state, and shall have so practiced for a period of at least

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