Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga Springs.

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, being the charter of the vil lage of Saratoga Springs; and to enable the trustees of said village to raise moneys for certain purposes.

Chapter 115, Laws of 1896.

Section 1. The board of trustees of the village of Saratoga Springs is hereby authorized to appropriate to the Saratoga Emergeney hospital, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of said hospital as may be received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, such sums annually as the said board of trustees shall deem proper, and payments may be made therefor subject to such rules. The amount so appropriated in any one year shall not exceed the sum of two thousand 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 village of Saratoga Springs, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital, and only so long as said hospital shall maintain a free medicine dispensary for the benefit of indigent persons, actual residents of said village.

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, being the charter of the village of Saratoga Springs, and to enable the trustees of said village to raise moneys for certain purposes.

Chapter 346, Laws of 1898.

Section 1. The board of trustees of the village of Saratoga Springs is hereby authorized to appropriate to the Saratoga hospital, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of said hospital as may be received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, in addition to the amounts now authorized by law, the further sum of fifteen hundred dollars. Such appropriation shall be made only in case said hospital shall establish a general operating room for surgical cases,

where any regular physician or surgeon of the village of Saratoga Springs may take his private patients and operate upon them under the same rules and regulations as the regular staff of said hospital.

Woman's Hospital Association of Batavia.

AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Batavia to appropriate certain moneys to the woman's hospital association of Batavia.

Chapter 151, Laws of 1904.

Section 1. The town board of the town of Batavia is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town of Batavia under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the woman's hospital association of Batavia, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of Batavia, 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 shail treat, free of other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the said town of Batavia, 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 installments, 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.

Yonkers Municipal Tuberculosis Hospital, Yonkers. AN ACT to establish a hospital commission for the city of Yonkers, and to provide for the care of persons in said city suffering from tuberculosis in advanced stages.

Chapter 586, Laws of 1910.

Section 1. A hospital commission for the city of Yonkers is hereby established, consisting of the mayor and the health officer

of such city, ex officio, and five other persons appointed by the mayor. Of the members first appointed, the term of one shall expire on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and eleven, and one on the thirty-first day of December of each year thereafter. Upon expiration of term a member thereafter appointed shall be appointed for a full term of five years. If a vacancy shall occur in such commission, otherwise than by expiration of term, a member shall be appointed by the mayor for the unexpired term. A member of such commission shall not receive any compensation for his services thereon, but shall be allowed his just and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of his duties.

§ 2. Such commission is hereby authorized to accept in behalf of the city, but without expense to the city, by deed or lease a suitable site for a hospital for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis in advanced stages. If such site is acquired by lease, said lease shall be in perpetuity, or so long as such site is used by the city for the purposes of said hospital, or for general hospital purposes. Upon the execution of such deed or lease, such commission shall certify the same to the board of estimate and apportionment. Such commission shall cause to be prepared plans for the construction on such site of a hospital building for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis in advanced stages, together with an estimate of the cost of constructing and equipping such building. Upon the approval of such plans and estimate by the board of estimate and apportionment, such board of estimate and apportionment, with the approval of the common council may, in its discretion, issue and sell, in the manner provided by law, bonds of such city in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, for the purposes of constructing and equipping such hospital. Thereupon such commission shall cause such hospital to be constructed and equipped in accordance with such plans.

§ 3. Such commission shall have the general management and control of such hospital, and may establish by-laws, rules and regulations for the government thereof, and regulating the ad

mission of patients thereto. Such rules and regulations may fix the charges to be paid by patients who are able to pay for their care and treatment in such hospital, or who have relatives bound by law to support them who are able to pay therefor.

§ 4. Such commission may receive by gift, devise or bequest, in trust or otherwise, money or property to be applied to the purposes of such hospital.

§ 5. The city of Yonkers may, in its discretion, annually appropriate in the manner provided by law for other city purposes such sums as may be necessary for the proper support and maintenance of said hospital.

THE COUNTY LAW.

Chapter 11 of the Consolidated Laws.

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ARTICLE III.

Boards of Supervisors.

§ 12. General powers. The board of supervisors shall: 1. Have the care and custody of the corporate property of the county.

2. Audit all accounts and charges against the county, and direct annually the raising of sums necessary to defray them in full. 3. Annually direct the raising of such sums in each town as shall be necessary to pay its town charges.

4. Cause to be assessed, levied and collected, such other assessments and taxes as shall be required of them by any law of the

state.

5. Have power to fix the amount and the time or manner of payment of the salary or compensation of any county officer or employee, except a judicial officer or an officer or employee of a county tuberculosis hospital and the term of office and mode of appointment, number and grade of any appointive county officer and of the clerks, assistants or employees in any county office,

except an officer or employee of a county tuberculosis hospital, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law fixing the amount of such salary or compensation or the time or manner of payment thereof, or fixing the term of office or providing for the mode of appointment, number or grade of any such county officer or of the clerks, assistants or employees in any county office, or vesting in any other board, body, commission or officer authority to fix such term of office, or the amount of such salary or compensation or the time or manner of payment thereof or to provide for the mode of appointment, number or grade of such officers or of the clerks, assistants or employees in any county office; and the power hereby vested in the board of supervisors shall be exclusive of any other board, body, commission or officer, except the authorities of a county tuberculosis hospital, notwithstanding any general or special law. The salary or compensation of an officer or employee elected or appointed for a definite term shall not be increased or diminished during such term. (As amended by chapter 359 of the Laws of 1911, and chapter 358 of the Laws of 1914.)

6. Borrow money when they deem it necessary, for the erection of county buildings, and for the purchase of sites therefor, on the credit of the county, and for the funding of any debt of the county not represented by bonds, and issue county obligations therefor, and for other lawful county uses and purposes; and authorize a town in their county to borrow money for town uses and purposes on its credit, and issue its obligations therefor, when, and in the manner, authorized by law.

12. Cause an action to be brought upon the undertaking of any county officer, whenever a breach thereof shall occur.

13. Purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, for the use of the county, necessary real property for courthouses, jails, almshouses, asylums and other county buildings, and for other county uses and purposes; and erect, alter, repair or construct, any necessary buildings or other improvements thereon for necessary county use, and cause to be levied, collected and paid, all such sums of money as they shall deem necessary therefor; to select such name as they may deem proper and appropriate for the almshouse of such