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the last general election to raise the sum of fifteen hundred dollars annually, by general tax, for the support and maintenance of the city hospital is hereby legalized and made valid, and the result of the vote on said proposition is hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed, and shall have the same force, validity and effect as if such proposition had been submitted to such voters at a general or special city election as provided by the charter of such city. § 2. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court.

Helping Hand Hospital Association, Peekskill. AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Cortlandt to appropriate certain moneys to the helping hand hospital association of Peekskill, New York.

Chapter 263, Laws of 1905.

§ 1. The town board of the town of Cortlandt in the county of Westchester is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the Peekskill Hospital, of Peekskill, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of Cortlandt, owned and conducted by said association, 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 three thousand 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 town of Cortlandt, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. The supervisors of the said town of Cortlandt shall make payment of such moneys to said hospital 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 town board may direct, provided the same shall not in any one year exceed the aforesaid sum of three thousand dollars. (As amended by chapter 672 of the Laws of 1911, and chapter 142 of the Laws of 1912.)

Hospital Association of the City of Schenectady. AN ACT to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the city of Schenectady.

Chapter 371, Laws of 1903.

§ 89. Appropriation for hospital associations; * * The board of estimate and apportionment may annually include in the tax budget not more than four thousand dollars, for the hospital association of the city of Schenectady, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of such hospital as may be received and retained therein, pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, and payments may be made therefor subject to such rules.

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AN ACT to authorize the city of Schenectady to borrow money and issue the bonds of said city therefor, for the purpose of purchasing the buildings and premises now used, occupied and owned by the hospital association of said city and for the repairing and renovation of said buildings and premises.

Chapter 230, Laws of 1905.

Section 1. The common council of the city of Schenectady is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate thirty thousand dollars, in sums of one thousand dollars each, payable at such time within thirty years after their respective issues as the said common council shall determine, with interest payable semi-annually, at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, the rate thereof to be determined by the said common council. Such bonds shall be executed by the mayor and the treasurer of said city under the corporate seal of said city and countersigned by the comptroller of said city. The said comptroller shall sell and dispose of such bonds or any part thereof at public auction or by sealed proposals after giving at least three weeks' public notice of the time and place of sale by daily publication thereof in the official newspaper of said city and in such other newspapers as the said common council shall determine and shall award the same to the highest bidder or bidders therefor, but at not less than par and accrued interest.

§ 2. All moneys received from the sale of such bonds shall be deposited with the treasurer of said city who shall keep a separate account thereof and shall be used and expended for the

purchasing of the buildings and premises now used, occupied and owned by the hospital association of the city of Schenectady and for the repairing and renovation of said buildings and premises.

§ 3. The interest and principal of such bonds shall be paid by said city when due, to the owners of said bonds and the sums of money required for such payment shall be assessed, levied, raised and collected by a tax, upon the real and personal property liable to taxation in said city and in the same manner as any other public or general tax of said city and in addition to the general and ordinary taxes of said city now authorized by law.

Hudson City Hospital.

AN ACT to revise and consolidate the several acts in relation to the city of Hudson.

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Chapter 751, Laws of 1895.

TITLE XXVIII.

It (the commission of public charities) shall, from the amount raised by tax for its uses and purposes, pay to the Hudson city hospital, in each year, on account of the deserving poor of the city who may, while sick from time to time receive maintenance, support, care and treatment in said hospital, the sum of one thousand dollars. (As amended by chapter 559 of the Laws of 1905.)

Ilion Hospital.

AN ACT to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the village of Ilion.

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Chapter 315, Laws of 1895.

A general tax may be raised for the following purposes:

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13. A sum to aid in defraying the current expenses of the Ilion hospital, according to a requisition made by the board of directors of said hospital upon the board of trustees of said village, which sum shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars. annually, and the board of trustees of said village may enter into a contract with the directors of said hospital association, located within the village of Ilion, for the nursing and support of such

class or classes of injured or sick persons as may be stated in such contract, and who shall be received and retained in said hospital pursuant to rules established by the said hospital and by the state board of charities. (As amended by chapter 246 of the Laws of 1910.)

J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital, Buffalo. AN ACT authorizing the city of Buffalo to construct, equip and maintain a municipal hospital or hospitals either within or outside the limits of said city, for the exclusive care and treatment of persons affected with incipient tuberculosis, and authorizing said city to acquire lands for such purposes and to borrow money therefor by the issue of bonds.

Chapter 115, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. The city of Buffalo is hereby authorized to construct, equip and maintain a municipal hospital or hospitals either within said city or outside its limits, for the exclusive care and treatment of persons affected with incipient tuberculosis, and to acquire by purchase, by gift, or by proceedings in eminent domain in the manner prescribed by the charter of said city the fee of lands necessary for the purposes aforesaid either within said city or outside its limits.

§ 2. For the purpose of providing the moneys necessary to acquire the title to lands, and to construct and equip suitable buildings for said hospital or hospitals, it shall be lawful for the city of Buffalo to issue its bonds in a sum not to exceed three hundred. thousand dollars in the aggregate. Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the legal rate per annum, payable semiannually at the office of the comptroller of the city of Buffalo, or at the Gallatin National Bank in the city of New York, as the purchaser may elect, the principal to be payable at the same place twenty years after the date of said bonds. Such bonds shall be issued from time to time by the mayor and comptroller, under the city seal, as may be ordered by the common council, and shall be sold or awarded in the manner provided in section four hundred and ninety-two of chapter one hundred and five of the laws of

the state of New York of the year eighteen hundred and ninetyone, being the charter of said city, as amended by chapter fortyeight of the laws of nineteen hundred and six. The common council shall make provision in the general fund estimates of said city for the payment of the interest on and the principal of said bonds as the same shall become due, and may appropriate in the annual estimates such sums as shall be deemed necessary by the common council and mayor for the maintenance and improvement of said hospital or hospitals. (As amended by chapter 50 of the Laws of 1911, and chapter 138 of the Laws of 1912.)

Ladies' Hospital Association, Port Chester. AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Rye to appropriate certain moneys to the Ladies' Hospital Association of Port Chester.

Chapter 245, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. The town board of the town of Rye is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town of Rye under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the Ladies' Hospital Association of Port Chester, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of Rye, owned and conducted by said association, 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 other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the town of Rye, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. The supervisor of the said town shall make payment of such moneys to said hospital association when. authorized and directed so to do by the said town 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 instalments, or otherwise, as the said. town board may direct, provided the same shall not in any one year exceed the aforesaid sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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