For the maintenance and medical and surgical care by hospitals of such officers, members and employees of the several departments, bureaus and branches of the state government as may be injured or become sick while in the performance of their duties, said persons to be admitted upon the certificate of the superintendent of public buildings, after proper evidence of disability shall have been filed with such superintendent over the signature of the head of the department, bureau or branch of said government in which such duties were performed, or over the signature of his deputy, and of a physician or surgeon duly authorized to practice medicine in the state of New York, five thousand dollars.

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society,

Oneonta.

AN ACT authorizing the board of aldermen of the city of Oneonta to appropriate certain moneys to the Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society of Oneonta, and repealing chapter one hundred and three of the laws of nineteen hundred and five.

Chapter 594, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. The board of aldermen, with the approval of the mayor of the city of Oneonta, is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually, on or before June first, from the moneys received by the said city under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society of Oneonta, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the city of Oneonta, owned and conducted by said society, as may be received therein, pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, a sum which in any one year shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars, and such. money shall be paid only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the city of Oneonta, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. The city chamberlain of the city of Oneonta shall make payment of such moneys to said hospital association when authorized and directed so to do by the said board,

and such annual payment may commence at the time when this act goes into effect, or at any time thereafter, and may be made at such time or times and in such installments or otherwise as the said board of aldermen may direct, provided the same shall not in any one year exceed the aforesaid sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

§ 2. Chapter one hundred and three of the laws of nineteen hundred and five, entitled "An act authorizing the town board of the town of Oneonta to appropriate certain moneys to the Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society of Oneonta," is hereby repealed.

Binghamton City Hospital, Binghamton.

AN ACT to create a board of managers, and to provide for the control and management of a nonsectarian city hospital, in the city of Binghamton.

Chapter 135, Laws of 1904.

Section 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the mayor of the city of Binghamton shall appoint six citizen taxpayers of said city, to serve as hospital managers, who, with the mayor from time to time of said city, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Board of Managers of the Binghamton City Hospital," and in that name may sue and be sued, prosecute, complain and defend in any court; and may receive and hold for the use and benefit of the Binghamton city hospital, gifts, devises and grants of real and personal property.

§ 2. Within fifteen days after the aforesaid appointments, the persons so appointed shall meet at the city clerk's office in said city, and then and there determine by lot the order in which their respective terms of office shall expire, and the determination so made shall, within twenty days thereafter, be certified by said clerk to the common council of said city. If, for any cause said managers fail to assemble and determine as aforesaid, the said common council shall, within twenty days thereafter,

make such determination. The term of office of one of said managers shall expire on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and five, and one on the first day of each April thereafter.

§ 3. The mayor of the city of Binghamton, at the regular meeting of the common council of said city, next preceding the first day of April, nineteen hundred and five, and next preceding the first day of April in each succeeding year thereafter, shall appoint a citizen taxpayer of said city manager in place of the one whose term is about to expire on the first day of April in that year. The term of office of each manager so appointed shall commence on the first day of April next after his appointment, and shall continue for the period of six years and until his successor shall have been appointed and shall qualify. Any vacancy occurring by reason of death, resignation, removal from the city, or otherwise, shall be filled by the mayor by appointment for the unexpired term.

§ 4. Every manager, before entering upon the duties of his office, and within ten days after notice of his appointment, shall take and file with the city clerk the constitutional oath of office, and shall also enter into a bond to the city of Binghamton in such sum as shall be prescribed by the common council, and with one or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the mayor of said city, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as such manager, and file the same in the office of the city clerk.

§ 5. The mayor of the city shall be ex officio president of said board of managers, but shall have no vote therein on the appointment of any officer, nor upon any other question except in case of

a tie vote.

§ 6. The board of managers shall, from time to time, appoint one of their number to be the vice-president of said board; one to be the treasurer thereof, and may appoint one of their number to be the secretary thereof, or may require the duties of the secretary to be performed by the superintendent of the hospital. The treasurer before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall enter into a bond to said city, in such sum as shall be prescribed by said common council, with one or more sufficient sureties, to

be approved by the mayor of said city, conditioned that he will faithfully perform his duties as such treasurer, and render an account to said common council of his receipts and disbursements as such treasurer, from time to time, when required by said common council; and at the first meeting of said common council in April of each year, render a full and detailed statement of the financial transactions of said board during the preceding year.

§ 7. A meeting of a majority of said board of managers shall be necessary for the transaction of any business, except to adjourn, which may be done by any lesser number present.

§ 8. Said board of managers shall have the custody and control of all the property, real and personal, now held and owned by said city, for hospital purposes, except the smallpox hospital, and also of any property which may hereafter be acquired for hospital purposes; and said board of managers shall formulate and submit to the common council for its approval, rules and regulations for the reception or admission of patients and the general regulation and management of the Binghamton city hospital and its business, and any change or amendment of such rules and regulations shall, before the same shall become operative, be submitted to and approved by said common council.

§ 9. No manager shall be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract relating to work to be done upon or for materials to be furnished for said hospital, nor shall he receive any compensation for any service rendered by him as such manager, except his actual disbursements.

Chapter 158, Laws of 1913.

§ 74. Appropriation for hospital purposes; pavements, sewers, sidewalks and curbs; park purposes; celebrations. The board of estimate and apportionment may annually include in the tax budget not more than thirty thousand dollars for hospital purposes; * *

Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk.

AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and ninety-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Dunkirk," in relation to the application and payment of certain moneys by said city.

Chapter 140, Laws of 1899.

§ 9. The common council of the city of Dunkirk is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the surplus moneys received by the said city of Dunkirk under this title and remaining in its hands after payment of the necessary expenses incurred in the maintenance of the police and poor departments of the said city, to the Brooks Memorial Hospital, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of said hospital as may be received therein pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, a sum which in any one year shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars; and such appropriation shall be made only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the said city of Dunkirk, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. Said common council is hereby authorized to pay same within thirty days after the end of each fiscal year. The payment for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine may be made from the surplus of the fiscal year ending February first, eighteen ninety-nine. In the event of the said surplus remaining in the hands of the city of Dunkirk for any one year after the payment of the necessary expenses incurred in the maintenance of the police and poor departments of the said city, being insufficient to permit the payment of the moneys for the payment of which to the Brooks Memorial Hospital, provision is hereby made, then and in that case the common council of the city of Dunkirk is hereby authorized to make so much of such payment as shall remain after the application of the said surplus, out of the general fund of said city, and the common council of said city is hereby authorized to add the amount which it shall pay out of the general fund in any one year, to the next annual