§ 6. The commissioner of charities shall not directly, or indirectly, furnish to any person any groceries, provisions, fuel, medicines or property belonging to himself, or in which he shall have any interest, nor shall he receive any commission upon or for any article, or goods, or relief furnished or any orders given him for such goods or articles or relief furnished.

For any violation of any provision of this section said commissioner shall be removed from office by the town board of said town, and he shall forfeit to the town a penalty of one hundred dollars for every such violation.

§ 7. All charges and accounts against said town for services rendered, acts done, or means, provisions, and supplies furnished by the commissioner of charities under the provisions of this act, shall be made out in items, duly verified, with the duplicate order authorizing the same, and submitted to the town board of said town at the first regular meeting of said town board in each month. The said town board shall audit all claims, accounts and charges, and when so audited, the commissioner is authorized to pay and discharge the same by order upon the supervisor of said town, payable out of the poor fund of said town. Such accounts and charges, with the duplicate order presented therewith, the audit of the town board and the order of the commissioner on the supervisor shall, within one month after said audit, be filed with the town clerk, with the application for relief and duplicate order previously filed as aforesaid.

§ 8. The moneys appropriated for the relief of the poor of said town shall be paid over to the supervisor of said town, and all payments and disbursements from said fund shall be made by him, only upon the order of the commissioner of charities after such audit as aforesaid.

$ 9. The commissioner of charities appointed by the said town board pursuant to this act shall hold office during the pleasure of the town board of said town. Vacancies in the office of commissioner of charities shall be filled by a majority vote of the town board of said town. The said town board shall determine the compensation for all services rendered by said commissioner of charities, such compensation, however, shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars per month.

§ 10. The said town board shall report through the supervisor of said town to the board of supervisors of the county of Essex, at their annual meeting each year, the amount of charges and expenses audited and paid for the relief of the poor in said town, and the said board of supervisors shall cause the same to be inserted in the tax lists and raised as other town charges are directed to be raised.

Nothing, however, contained herein shall prevent the expenditure of the sums received for excise licenses, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the relief of the poor of said town, if so directed by the town board of said town.

§ 11. Chapter sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act to secure the better application of funds to relieve the poor of the town of Moriah, in the county of Essex," is hereby repealed.

§ 12. The office of overseer of the poor of the town of Moriah as it existed on and prior to the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, is hereby abolished.

§ 13. This act shall take effect immediately.

Towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, Nassau County.

AN ACT to appoint trustees of the Jones fund, for the support of the poor of the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, in the county of Queens.*

Chapter 312, Laws of 1838.

Section 1. That, Andrew C. Hegeman, Ebenezer Seely and James C. Townsend, freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Oyster Bay, and Benjamin Albertson and Singleton Mitchell, freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Jones fund, for the support of the poor in said towns, and shall hold their offices for two years from the first Tuesday of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and until others are appointed in * Now Nassau County.

their place; and they and their successors shall be denominated The Trustees of the Jones Fund for the support of the poor;' three of whom shall always be freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Oyster Bay and two of whom shall always be freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead.

§ 2. The freeholders and inhabitants of the said town of Oyster Bay, shall, at their annual town meeting, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and in every second year thereafter, choose by ballot three freeholders and inhabitants of the said town, who with two freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead, to be chosen in like manner by ballot by the freehold. ers and inhabitants of said town, at their annual town meeting, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and in every second year thereafter, shall be trustees of said fund; and the persons so chosen shall hold their offices for two years, and until others are chosen in their places.

§ 3. The trustees of the said fund and their successors in office shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleaded and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever, by the name of "the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor," and they and their successors in office by the name aforesaid shall be capable in law of taking, holding and managing said fund or any part of the same, as was by the last wills and testaments of Samuel Jones and Walter R. Jones, deceased, devised and bequeathed to the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, for the purposes aforesaid, by the said testators, and shall also be capable of pur chasing, holding, and conveying, either by deed or mortgage, and real or personal estate for the use and benefit of said fund, and carrying the intent of the said testators in creating the same into full effect. (As amended by chapter 180 of the Laws of 1879, and chapter 229 of the Laws of 1880.)

§ 4. Each of the said trustees, and their successors, before entering upon the duties of the said trust, shall execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the supervisor of their respective towns, the amount of the said bond and said sureties to be approved by the

said supervisors respectively, for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in them as such trustees.

§ 5. Any three or more of said trustees shall constitute a quorum to transact any of the business and concerns of the said trust. If any of the trustees of said fund, appointed by or chosen under this act, shall die, resign, or remove from said towns, the said trustees may appoint a person of like qualifications to fill his place for the residue of his term of office, who shall in like manner, as above provided, execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the supervisor of the town from whence he shall be chosen, for the faithful discharge of his duty as trustee.

§ 6. The said trustees shall make an annual and full report to each of the said towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, at the annual town meetings thereof, of the state of the funds and property of said trust, and of the manner in which the same has been managed, and the income thereof applied during the preceding year.

§ 7. The chancellor of this state shall have a supervisory power over said trustees and fund, and may remove any of said trustees for good cause shown, on petition or bill by any inhabitant of either of said towns.

§ 8. Each of said towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, may, by vote at their annual town meetings, fix and allow to said. trustees and their successors or any of them, from their respective towns, such salary or compensation for their services as such towns may respectively think proper, and which said salary or compensation shall be raised and paid as other ordinary expenses of said

town.

§ 9. This act shall be deemed a public act.

AN ACT to enable the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead in the county of Nassau to provide the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor of the said towns, with the necessary funds to enable them to conduct the joint almshouse of the said towns.

Chapter 239, Laws of 1916.

Section 1. The supervisors of the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, shall insert in their

annual budgets for their respective towns and cause to be raised by taxation each year, and pay over to the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor, an amount from each of the said towns, in proportion to the number of inmates from each such town, and which, added to the income of the trustees of the Jones fund, shall be sufficient to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining the almshouse for the said towns, with the inmates therein, for the current year. The said trustees shall make to the town board of Oyster Bay and to the town board of North Hempstead, a written report showing the deficiency or the surplus, as the case may be, resulting from the operation of the previous year and estimating a sum which they deem necessary and appropriate for each town to contribute toward the cost of operating the almshouse for the ensuing year, and thereupon if the town board shall approve the estimate, it shall so certify in duplicate. One of the certificates shall be filed with the town clerk and the other shall be presented by the supervisor before the board of supervisors of the county at a meeting to be held on or before December twentieth in each year, and such board shall cause the amount of the deficiency, if any there be, and the estimate for the ensuing year to be levied and collected in the respective towns in the same manner as other town charges, to be paid to the trustees of the Jones fund for the purpose aforesaid. No part of the moneys raised by such towns shall be available for the purposes herein set forth until the trustees of such fund shall enter into an agreement with the supervisors of each such town that they will receive into such almshouse and care for any or all poor persons committed thereto by the proper town or county authorities. A copy of such agreement, signed by such trustees and supervisors, shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of such county and in the office of the town clerk of each such town.

§ 2. The supervisors of the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead are hereby authorized on the consent of the town boards of their respective towns to borrow upon temporary certificates of indebtedness for the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor such sums as the said trustees shall certify