§ 3. No superintendent of the poor of the county of Montgomery shall be directly or indirectly interested in any goods, wares or merchandise, provisions, clothing or any other article or thing whatsoever furnished, ordered or contracted for by him for the use of or at the poorhouse for the poor therein.

§ 4. Except as otherwise provided in this act, the provisions of the poor law and of other general laws apply to the superintendent of the poor of Montgomery county and the county almshouse and farm of such county.

Onondaga County.

AN ACT creating the office of keeper of the county home in the county of Onondaga, and prescribing his powers and duties. Chapter 235, Laws of 1911.

Section 1. There is hereby created in and for the county of Onondaga the office of keeper of the county home. He shall be appointed by the board of supervisors and his term of office shall be three years. He may appoint a deputy, a physician, and such other subordinates as the board of supervisors may authorize. In case of the absence or disability of the keeper, or of a vacancy in the office, the deputy shall discharge the duties of the office, until the keeper returns, or his disability ceases, or the vacancy is filled. The salaries or compensation of the keeper, deputy, physician and other subordinates shall be determined and fixed by said board. Such salaries or compensation shall be a county charge and paid in the same manner as the salaries of other county officers. Said board may require official undertakings to be given by the keeper and his subordinates for the faithful performance of their duties, fix the amount and provide for the approval thereof. The first such keeper shall be appointed at the first regular meeting of the board of supervisors held after this act shall take effect.

§ 2. The keeper of the county home shall:

1. Have the general superintendence and care of all persons committed to the county home and hospital.

2. Have the care and management, and be charged with the repair and maintenance of all the buildings, grounds and equip ment constituting the county home and hospital of said county.

3. Establish rules and regulations for the government and good order of such county home and hospital, and for the employment, relief, management and government of the poor therein; but such rules and regulations shall not be valid until approved in writing by the superintendent of poor of said county. When so approved, a true copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors.

4. Subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, prescribe the rate of allowance for bringing poor persons to the county home, and certify the amount due for transporting such poor persons, which shall be paid in the same manner as now provided for the payment of other claims against said county.

5. Provide, through the purchasing agent, all necessary furniture, implements, materials, food, medical and other supplies for the maintenance of the buildings, grounds and equipment of the county home and its inmates, and for their employment and labor, and use, sell and dispose of the proceeds of such labor as he shall deem expedient. He shall deposit all moneys received by him with the county treasurer to the credit of the fund from which claims for the maintenance of such home are paid, at least once a month, and file with the clerk of the board of supervisors monthly a verified, detailed statement of such receipts. He shall make such other and further statements as may be required by said

board.

6. On or before the first day of November in each year, make reports in duplicate covering the year ending September thirtieth, containing such matters, in such form, as may be required by the state board of charities or the superintendent of poor, and file one with the superintendent of poor and the other with the clerk of the board of supervisors. He shall also file with said clerk an annual report, together with a detailed estimate of the sum deemed by him necessary to defray the expenses of such county home for the ensuing year.

7. Keep a record of all supplies and services furnished to said institution, and, on or before the first day of December in each

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year, file with the board of supervisors a full, true and correct inventory, verified by his oath, of all the goods, furniture, utensils, stock and property of every name and nature, belonging to the said county, or in its use on or connected with the county home buildings, grounds or equipment, at that time, with the value, as near as may be, of each article stated, and keep a duplicate thereof, as a public record, in his office.

§ 3. All acts or parts of acts, general or special, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

Putnam County.

AN ACT to abolish the office of county superintendent of the poor in the county of Putnam, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to employ a keeper of the county poorhouse and farm.

Chapter 118, Laws of 1856.

Section 1. The office of county superintendent of the poor of the county of Putnam is hereby abolished, and the provisions of the act passed December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fortyseven, and all other acts inconsistent with this act, requiring the election of such officers so far as the same apply to the county of Putnam are hereby repealed.

§ 2. The board of supervisors of said county are hereby empowered and authorized to employ on such terms as said board shall deem proper, a keeper of the county poorhouse of said county, whose duty it shall be to take charge of and superintend the management of the poorhouse and farm of said county, under the control and direction of said board.

Rensselaer County.

AN ACT relating to the support of the poor of Rensselaer

county.*

Chapter 344, Laws of 1860.

Section 1. From and after the passage of this act, the two superintendents of the poor having the shortest time to serve, shall be designated auditing superintendents, and shall be com

*See chapter 236, Laws of 1906, p. 445.

petent to do no other acts officially, nor shall do any other acts officially than those prescribed in this act. The third superintendent of the poor, being the one having the longest term to serve, shall be designated the acting superintendent of the poor; shall discharge all the duties required by law, from a county superintendent of the poor; together with all other duties required by this act, from the acting superintendent of the poor. And hereafter there shall be elected at the general election preceding the expiration of the term of office of each of said two first named superintendents of the poor, one auditing superintendent of the poor, to fill that office for three years; and at the general election preceding the expiration of the term of the third named superintendent of the poor, there shall be elected one acting superintendent of the poor, who shall fill that office for three years.

The term of office of the present acting superintendent of the poor, Martin P. Defreest, shall end and terminate on the thirtyfirst day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and seventysix, and the term of office of Barent I. Van Hoesen, one of the present auditing superintendents of the poor, shall end and termi nate on the thirty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five; and the term of office of Jonathan Dennison, one of the present auditing superintendents of the poor, shall end and terminate on the thirty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six. In case of vacancy in the office of the acting superintendent or of the auditing superintendents, such officer shall be elected for the full term of three years, at the general election in said county of Rensselaer, next succeeding the happening of such vacancy; and in the meantime. such vacancy shall be supplied as now provided by law. (Added by chapter 590 of the Laws of 1875.)

§ 2. The acting superintendent of the poor so elected, shall give bail in the amount required by the board of supervisors for a county superintendent of the poor, and his bonds shall be approved by said board as now required by law in such case.

§ 3. The (acting and) auditing superintendent* of the poor shall, on the first Wednesday of every month, meet at the house So in original.

of industry, or the office of the acting superintendent, at the court house, in said county, and then and there audit, examine and allow or disallow, every claim, account, bill or demand presented by the acting superintendent, or any other person or persons, against the acting superintendent, or the board of superintendents, for the support of the county poor, or for any service, subsistence, supplies or maintenance of the county poor of said county, or for the support of any or all the inmates of the house of industry.

§ 4. They shall keep a book in the office of the acting superintendent of the poor, in the court house, in Rensselaer county, in which shall be entered a full and correct statement of all articles purchased for the care, support and maintenance of the inmates. of said house of industry; or for the management and cultivation. of the farm, and for the keeping of the team or teams, cattle and stock upon the same, together with the name of the person or persons of whom the same was purchased, and the price thereof; another book in which all articles sold shall be entered, with the price, names of the purchasers and date of said purchase; and a third book in which shall be entered at length every contract, whether written or verbal, and the names of the contracting parties; and a fourth book, in which shall be entered the name, age, sex, previous habits, nativity, last place of residence and name of every committing officer, of every pauper inmate, together with the name of the town or city to which they are severally chargeable.

§ 5. The said books shall be open for the examination of every taxpayer of said county, from ten o'clock in the morning to twelve at noon, and from one till four o'clock in the afternoon of every day except Sundays, legal holidays and election days.

§ 6. The said auditing superintendents shall each receive four dollars per day for every monthly meeting for auditing said accounts, and twenty cents for every mile necessarily traveled to attend said meetings, reckoning only one way, which bills shall be audited and allowed by the board of supervisors, as other accounts are allowed, and no more than eight dollars per month and said travel fees, for one journey shall be allowed. (As amended by chapter 486 of the Laws of 1863.)