shall appoint a resident of the state to fill such vacancy, but when an appointment shall be made to fill an unexpired term, the governor shall so indicate at the time of making the appointment, and the person so appointed shall hold office only until the close of the unexpired term, and appointments shall be so made that there will be at all times six women and three men as members of said board. (As amended by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.)

3. Official oath.- Before entering on their duties the said managers shall respectively take and subscribe to the usual oath of office, which oath may be taken and subscribed before the judge of any court of record of this state, or any notary public having a seal, and shall be filed in the office of the secretary of

state.

§ 4. Compensation and expenses.- Said managers shall receive no compensation for their time of services, but the actual and necessary expenses of each of them while engaged in the performance of his or her office, and any expenses of said board incurred in the performance of the duties imposed by this act, on being presented in writing and verified by affidavit, shall be paid by the treasurer of said board of managers.

§ 5. Organization of board. It shall be the duty of said board of managers immediately after their appointment to meet and organize by the election of a president, secretary and an executive committee from their number. (As amended by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.)

86. Report to legislature. Said board of managers shall annually on or before January fifteenth, make to the legislature a detailed report of its proceedings for the preceding fiscal year, together with a complete statement of its receipts and expenditures, the condition of the institution, and full estimates of the appropriation required for its maintenance including therein ordinary repairs. It shall also include in its report a statement of any special appropriations required and the reasons therefor. (As amended by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.)

$7. Purchase of site and erection of buildings.- Whenever any site shall have been selected, and contract for the purchase of the same made and approved by the legislature, and an appropri

ation for the payment thereof, and the erection of the buildings thereon made by the legislature of this state, it shall be the duty of said board of managers to purchase such site and to erect suitable buildings thereon for the care, maintenance and relief of aged dependent veterans and their wives, veterans' mothers, widows, and army nurses who, from any cause, need the care and benefits of a home, and to do all things necessary and requisite in the premises.

§ 8. Admission to home.-Whenever said lands shall have been purchased, buildings erected and said home ready for oceupancy, every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who served in the army or navy of the United States, for a period not less than ninety days, during the war of the rebellion, and who shall have been a resident of this state for one year next preceding the application for admission, and the wives, widows and mothers of any such honorably discharged soldier or sailor, and army nurses, who served in said army or navy and whose residence was at the time of the commencement of such service or whose residence. shall have been for one year next preceding his or her application for admission to said home within the state of New York, and who shall need the aid or benefit of said home, in consequence of physical disability or other cause within the scope of the regulations of the board shall be entitled to admission to said home, after the approval of the application by the board of managers and subject to the conditions, limitations and penalties prescribed by the rules and regulations adopted by said board. Provided, however, said soldier or sailor shall be a married man and shall be accompanied or attended by his wife during the time he may be an inmate of said home, but no wife or widow of a soldier shall be admitted as an inmate of said home unless due and sufficient. proof is presented of her marriage to such soldier or sailor at least fifteen years prior to the date of such application. (As amended by chapter 597 of the Laws of 1907.)

§ 9. Powers of the board of managers.-The board of managers shall have charge of all of the affairs of the institution, with power to make all necessary by-laws, rules, and regulations, for its government and proper management, and for the admission and discharge of inmates. It shall have prower to select a treas

urer, to appoint and remove a superintendent of the institution, who shall be its chief executive officer. It shall also have power to appoint such other subordinate officers- as may be necessary, and for just cause remove any or all of them from office. Under proper rules, and regulations and in accordance with the provisions of the civil service law they may delegate the power to hire and discharge subordinate employees to the superintendent. (Added by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.)

§ 10. Record. The board of managers shall keep in a book provided for that purpose and kept in the institution, a fair and full record of the doings of the board, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of its members and such other persons and officers of the state as are by law vested with the powers of visitation and inspection, or appointed by the governor, the legislature, or other competent authority to make an inspection or investigation of the institution. (Added by chapter 451 of the Laws of 1906.)

THE THOMAS INDIAN SCHOOL, IROQUOIS.

AN ACT to authorize the transfer of Indian children from the Thomas Indian school to other asylums, hospitals or institutions for the custody and care of orphan, dependent or sick children, and to provide for their care, support and eatment therein.

Chapter 242, Laws of 1896.

Section 1. Transfers.- Whenever the number of Indian children in The Thomas Indian school, on the Cattaraugus Reservation, duly admitted thereto, shall be in excess of its proper capacity or the applications for admission of such Indian children to such asylum shall exceed its proper accommodations therefor, or whenever, in the opinion of the trustees of such asylum, the comfort and well being of any such Indian children therein will likely be promoted by their removal to other asylums, hospitals or institutions for the custody, care and treatment of orphan, dependent or sick children, they may, with the approval of the

state board of charities, contract with the managers or other authorities of such asylums, hospitals or institutions as they may deem desirable for the reception, care and treatment of such Indian children, as may, from time to time, be transferred thereto, at a fixed weekly per capita rate not exceeding two dollars, except in the case of sick children requiring hospital treatment and care, when the fixed weekly per capita rate shall not exceed three dollars. The sum of two thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of this act. (As amended by chapter 67 of the Laws of 1905.)

NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND, BATAVIA (THE NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND).

AN ACT to authorize the establishment of the New York State Institution for the Blind.

Chapter 587, Laws of 1865.

Section 10. Trustees. As soon as suitable accommodations. shall be provided, the governor shall, by and with the consent of the senate, appoint nine trustees, two from the first judicial district and one from each of the other judicial districts, who shall take charge of said institution. Such trustees shall serve without pay, and shall hold their offices for three years and until others are appointed.

§ 11. Admission to asylum.-Application for admission into such institution shall be made to a justice of the supreme court or of the court of common pleas or to a county judge in the county where such applicant shall reside. Such justice or judge shall hear the application and make due inquiry into the pecuniary circumstances of such applicant, or of the parents or guardians thereof, and if it shall be proved to his satisfaction that such person or the parents or guardians of such person are unable to pay for the support thereof, and that such county is entitled to send such person to such institution, he may make

his order to that effect, and thereupon such person shall be sent to and admitted into such institution for a term not exceeding seven years.

12. Preference to soldiers' children.-The persons who shall be entitled to the benefits of this institution shall be, admitted in the order of their application for admission, except that the blind children of those who shall have died in the military service of the United States, or from wounds or injuries received therein during the present rebellion, shall in all cases have a preference; except however that each county shall be entitled to admission for its blind population in indigent circumstances in the same proportion which the whole number of its blind population shall bear to the whole blind population of the state, which proportion shall be determined by the trustees; provided however, that for each person sent by any county, such county shall pay the annual sum of fifty dollars towards the support of such person.

§ 13. Power of trustees.-Said trustees shall, as soon after their appointment as may be, meet and organize by choosing one of their number as president and appointing a secretary. They shall have power to make by-laws and rules and regulations for the transaction of their business, and for the regulation and management of said institution, which institution shall be wholly under their control; and as soon as may be necessary, they shall appoint some suitable person as superintendent, and such other officers and employes as may be necessary to properly carry on the business of said institution, and fix the compensation thereof.

§ 14. Records to be kept.-Said trustees shall keep full and complete records of all their proceedings, and also of the business and daily transactions of such institution, in books to be provided for that purpose; and shall annually make report thereof to the legislature, in and during the month of January.