mayor for a full term of eight years. If a vacancy occur, otherwise than by expiration of term in the office of an appointive member of the board, it shall be filled for the unexpired term. At least three members of the board shall be women.

§ 151. Members to serve without compensation. Expenses, et cetera. The members of the board of child welfare, as herein provided, shall receive no compensation for their services as members of such board, but, after appropriations have been duly made as herein provided, they shall be entitled to the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in properly discharging their official duties, whether while making investigations or otherwise.

§ 152. General powers and duties of board. State board of charities may revoke allowances. A board of child welfare shall:

1. Meet and organize within ten days after appointment, and fix the dates for its meetings, which shall be held at least monthly. 2. Elect a chairman, and appoint a secretary of the board, who shall hold office subject to the pleasure of the board.

3. Establish an office and, when specific appropriations have been made for such purposes, employ such officers and employees as may be provided for by the board of supervisors of a county or by the board of estimate and apportionment and the board of aldermen of a city.

4. Establish rules and regulations for the conduct of its business, which shall provide for the careful investigation of all applicants for allowances and the adequate supervision of all persons receiving allowances; such investigations and supervisions, when consistently possible, to be made by the board or by the authorities. now entrusted with similar work and without incurring any unnecessary expense. Reports must be filed at least quarterly by the agents, visitors or representatives of the board, with respect to the families receiving allowances granted by the board.

5. Report annually in detail, in counties, to the board of supervisors, and in cities, to the mayor, the result of the transactions of the board for the preceding fiscal year, with such conclusions and recommendations as may be deemed proper; if required by

the board of supervisors or mayor more frequent reports must be given covering fractional parts of a year.

6. Submit annually to the proper fiscal authorities of the county or city an estimate of the funds required to carry out the purposes of this article; in a county such estimate shall be furnished before the annual meeting of the board of supervisors for appropriating moneys and levying taxes; in a city, it shall be submitted at the time provided by law for the submission of other departmental estimates.

7. Be subject to the general supervision of the state board of charities, and make such reports as the state board of charities may require. Any person who has knowledge that relief is being granted in violation of the requirements of this act, may file a verified complaint, in writing, with the state board of charities, setting forth the particulars of such violation, and said state board of charities shall have power, after proper investigation, to revoke allowances or to make such order as it may deem just and equitable and such order shall be complied with by the local board of child welfare.

§ 153. Regulation* governing allowances. The following provisions shall govern the granting of allowances pursuant to this article:

1. A board of child welfare may, in its discretion, when funds have been appropriated therefor, grant an allowance to any dependent widow residing in the county or city wherein she applies for an allowance, and who is deemed by the local board of child welfare to be a proper person mentally, morally and physically to care for and bring up such child or children, provided such widow has been a resident of the county or of the city wherein the application for an allowance is made for a period of two years immediately preceding the application, and whose deceased husband was a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state at the time of his death.

2. Such allowance shall be made by a majority vote of the board duly entered upon the minutes of any regular or special meeting, and may be increased, diminished or totally withdrawn in the discretion of the local board of child welfare.

*So in original.

3. Before granting an allowance the board shall not only determine that the mother is a suitable person to bring up her own children and that aid is necessary to enable her to do so, but further that if such aid is not granted the child or children. must be cared for in an institutional home.

4. Such an allowance or allowances shall not exceed the amount or amounts which it would be necessary to pay to an institutional home for the care of such widow's child or children.

5. An allowance granted by the board shall be paid out of any moneys appropriated by the local authorities for such purposes, or otherwise available by the board for such purpose; such local authorities are authorized to appropriate and make available for the board of child welfare and to include in the tax levy for such county or city, such sum or sums, as in their judgment, may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article; such moneys to be kept in a separate fund and to be disbursed by the proper county or city fiscal authorities on orders of the local board of child welfare and upon proper vouchers therefor.

6. An application for allowance may be made directly to the local board of child welfare or to any member of the board.

7. A full and complete record shall be kept in every case coming either directly or indirectly within the jurisdiction of the board; such record to be available to the proper authorities of county or city interested therein.

8. An allowance made by the board shall not be for a longer continuous period than six months without renewal, which allowance may be continued from time to time at same or different amounts, for similar periods or less, either successively or intermittently or may be revoked at the pleasure of the local board of child welfare.

§ 154. Appropriations and limitations for purposes of article. The board of supervisors of a county, and the board of estimate and apportionment and the board of aldermen of a city to which this article is applicable, are hereby authorized and empowered annually to appropriate such a sum, if any, as, in their discretion and judgment, may be needed to carry out the provisions of this article, including expenses for administration and relief; it is further provided that no board of child

welfare shall expend or contract to expend under the provisions of this act or otherwise, any public moneys not specifically appropriated as herein provided; the board of supervisors of any county may determine, as provided in section one hundred and thirtyeight of the state poor law, the same being chapter forty-two of the consolidated laws, whether or not the actual expense for the relief of widowed mothers and their children under this article shall be a charge upon the county or upon the respective towns thereof.

$155. Penalties. 1. A person who shall procure or attempt to procure, directly or indirectly, any allowance for relief under this article, for or on account of a person not entitled thereto, or shall knowingly or wilfully pay or permit to be paid any allowance to a person not entitled thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

2. The members of a board of child welfare, established by this act, shall be appointed within sixty days after this act takes effect.

2. This act shall take effect July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

THE GENERAL CITY LAW.

Chapter 21 of the Consolidated Laws.

ARTICLE X.

Hospital for Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Section 140. Establishment of hospitals.

141.

142.

Selection of site.

Jurisdiction of local board of health.

§ 140. Establishment of hospitals. A city of the first class shall have power whenever its board of health shall deem it necessary for the promotion of the health of its inhabitants, to establish, equip and maintain, outside of its corporate limits, and not within the limits of any other city or any village, a hospital or hospitals for the regular treatment of the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis.

§ 141. Selection of site. Whenever a city of the first class shall desire to exercise the power conferred by this article it shall through its board of health, select such locality outside of its corporate limits, but within the state, and not within the corporate limits of any other city or any village, as it may consider best adapted by reason of climatic and other conditions for the treatment of such disease, and shall make application to the state board of health for the approval of the site so selected. Upon such approval being given the city may acquire title to such lands as its board of health may designate, within the limits of the locality submitted to and approved by the state board of health. The provisions of law relating to the acquiring of private property for public purposes are hereby made applicable as far as may be necessary to the acquirement of title to such lands.

§ 142. Jurisdiction of local board of health. All hospitals or institutions now or hereafter established or maintained by any city of the first class for the regular or special treatment of persons suffering from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis shall be subject to the approval of the local board of health; special wards or pavilions for the treatment of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in existing hospitals shall be provided with separate nurses, cooking utensils, washing and plumbing facilities.

SPECIAL STATUTES PROVIDING FOR APPROPRIATIONS TO CERTAIN HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES IN NEW YORK STATE.

General.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government and various miscellaneous appropriations and supplying deficiencies in former appropriations.

Chapter 791, Laws of 1913.

Section 1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller,