the said bill, claim, account and statement are in all respects correct and true. No account, bill or claim shall be paid by the acting superintendent or the auditing superintendents as a board, or otherwise, nor shall the same be paid by the county treasurer until made out, verified and audited according to the provisions of this section, and certified by said board of superintendents. All monies now in the hands of said board or said acting superintendent, shall be forthwith paid over to the county treasurer, and all monies hereinafter received from any source by said board or said acting superintendent, in their or his official capacity shall be immediately paid over to the county treasurer to be held and used for the support of the county poor as now provided by law, anything in the act hereby amended to the contrary notwithstanding. Such vouchers filed by such county treasurer shall at all reasonable times be subject to examination by any taxpayer of said county.

§ 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

AN ACT to abolish the offices of auditing superintendents of the poor in Rensselaer county, to confer their powers and duties on the acting superintendent, and to authorize the employment of additional clerks in his office.

Chapter 236, Laws of 1906.

Section 1. The office of the auditing superintendent of the poor of the county of Rensselaer whose term expires on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby abolished on that date, and all his powers and duties shall be exercised and performed by the auditing superintendent of the poor whose term of office expires on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, until the expiration of his term of office. The office of the auditing superintendent of the poor whose term expires on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby abolished on that date, and from and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eight, all the powers and duties of the auditing superintendents of the poor of the county of Rensselaer and of the board of superintendents of such county, under

existing laws, shall be exercised and performed by the acting superintendent of the poor of such county. All bids contracted by said acting superintendent of the poor in the discharge of his office shall be audited by the board of supervisors after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eight.

§ 2. The acting superintendent of the poor of such county may employ additional clerks to assist him in the discharge of his official duties at an annual expense not exceeding one thousand dollars.

AN ACT providing for the appointment by the acting superintendent of the poor of Rensselaer county of clerks, physicians, matrons, keepers, nurses, firemen, watchmen, baker, teamster, cook, laundryman, janitor and laborer, and for their compensation and duties.

Chapter 78, Laws of 1915.

Section 1. The acting superintendent of the poor of the county of Rensselaer may appoint, and may at pleasure remove, a clerk at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, lunacy clerk at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, a physician at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, a temporary relief physician at a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum, a keeper at a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum, an assistant keeper at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, a matron at a salary of three hundred dollars per annum, an assistant matron at a salary of three hundred dollars per annum, a nurse at a salary of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum, a nurse at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, two firemen each at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, two watchmen each at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, a baker at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, a teamster at a salary of three hundred and sixty dollars per annum, a cook at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, a laundryman at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, a janitor at a salary of two hundred and sixteen dollars per annum and a laborer at a salary of three hundred and ninety-six dollars per annum. Salaries of such appointees shall be payable monthly and shall be a county charge and paid in the same manner as salaries of other county officers and employees.

Such appointees as in the judgment of the acting superintendent of the poor may be necessary to be retained on duty at the House of Industry shall be boarded at such House of Industry and at the expense of the county. Such appointees shall perform such services in and about the offices of said acting superintendent of the poor, the House of Industry, the county farm and for the relief of the county poor, under the direction of the acting superintendent of the poor as he may require.

§ 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Seneca County.

AN ACT to regulate the expenditures for poor purposes in Seneca county.

Chapter 145, Laws of 1868.

Section 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Seneca shall hereafter, at their annual meeting, audit and settle all accounts of the superintendents of the county poorhouse of said county, the accounts of the overseers of the poor of the several towns of said county, for services and expenses incurred by them for the temporary relief of the county poor of said county, and the accounts of all other persons for like services rendered, or for supplies furnished and for medical attendance by physicians for the poor, chargeable to said county.

§ 2. The board of supervisors for said county shall have power to contract with any person or persons for supplies to be furnished to the poor, chargeable to said county as county paupers of said county.

§ 3. The superintendents of the poor of said county of Seneca are hereby constituted a subordinate board to assist in auditing the poor expenses of said county, and shall be under the direction and control of the board of supervisors of said county.

§ 4. The superintendents of the poor of said county, the keeper of the county poorhouse and the overseers of the poor of the towns in said county, shall not, nor shall either of them, be

directly or indirectly interested in any supplies furnished or ordered by them, or either of them, and no accounts shall be audited by said board of supervisors for services rendered or supplies furnished for the poor of said county, unless the same shall be made out in items, with dates, stating the time and nature of the services rendered, the quantity and quality of the articles furnished, and the time when the same were delivered, duly verified according to the form prescribed by law, applicable to accounts audited by boards of supervisors.

§ 5. The superintendents of the county poor of said county shall, in each year, render under oath to the board of supervisors of said county, at its annual meeting, a true and faithful statement of all moneys received by them from said county, and from the commissioners of emigration for the support of county paupers, of all the products raised on the county farm belonging to the said county poorhouse, and of the disposition which has been made of the same, and of all labor which has been performed by the county paupers, or of any property belonging to the county, with the manner in which, and the persons for whose benefit, the same has been performed.

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§ 6. It shall be the duty of each overseer of the poor in said. county of Seneca to enter in a book, to be kept by him for that purpose, a full and accurate statement of all sums of money by him received or expended as such overseer of the poor, with the date of the receipt and disbursement thereof, the name, age and sex of each poor or indigent person relieved by him, the cause of pauperism or indigence in each case, so far as the same can be ascertained, and the items of expenditure in the relief of each such poor or indigent person. It shall be the duty of each of said overseers of the poor to make and furnish the supervisor of his town, within one week preceding the annual meeting of the board of supervisors, a just and accurate transcript of all the statements and entries so required to be made by him, for the year ending on the last day in October in each year; and it shall be the duty of such supervisor to whom such statement shall be furnished, to deliver the same to the clerk of the board of supervisors of said county, on or before the first day of the meeting of said board in each year.

§ 7. The board of supervisors of said county shall have power to direct, by resolution, to be entered on its minutes, in relation to and the manner in which the supplies for the county poorhouse, or any portion thereof, shall be purchased, obtained or contracted for, and also as to the amount and manner of affording temporary relief by the overseers of the poor of the several towns in said county, and when any such direction shall be given by said board of supervisors, the same shall be observed and carried out by the said superintendents and overseers of the poor.

§ 8. The committee of the board of supervisors, appointed at their annual session, on the accounts of superintendents and overseers of the poor shall, on the first Wednesday in February in each and every year, meet at the county poorhouse with the super intendents of the poor, and the superintendents, and said committee of the supervisors shall jointly constitute an auditing board to audit and settle all accounts for temporary relief furnished to the poor outside of the poorhouse, from the first day of November preceding the time of meeting of said auditing board. The said auditing board shall elect one of their number chairman, and also a clerk from their own number, and the said clerk shall, under the direction of the board, draw checks upon the county treasurer for all bills audited which shall be paid by the county treasurer, the same as checks drawn by order of the board of supervisors. (As amended by chapter 12 of the Laws of 1878.)

§ 9. All provisions of law, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Westchester County.

AN ACT to create the office of commissioner of charities and corrections in the county of Westchester, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such office.

Chapter 242, Laws of 1916.

Section 1. There is hereby created in and for Westchester county the office of commissioner of charities and corrections. The

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