be made only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the town of White Plains, 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.

WOMAN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, 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 shall 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,

CHARTER OF NEW YORK CITY.

AN ACT to unite into one municipality under the name of The City of New York, the various communities lying in and about New York Harbor, including the city and county of New York, the city of Brooklyn and the county of Kings, the county of Richmond, and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for the government thereof.

Chapter 378, Laws of 1897, as amended by chapter 466, Laws of 1901. Items to be included in annual estimate.

§ 230. The board of estimate and apportionment shall, in addition to such other amounts as it may in its discretion provide for public purposes in The City of New York and the several counties wholly contained within its territorial limits, annually include in its final estimate the following sums, which shall annually be raised and appropriated:

3. To the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for the support of every crippled child received and retained in their hospital for one year, and a proportionate sum for a shorter period.

4. To the New York Infirmary for Women and Children twenty-five dollars for each homeless or needy mother who received care and attendance in lying-in wards of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, for such care and obstetric attendance, and the further sum of eighteen dollars per month, and proportionately for any fraction of a month, for each mother thus domiciled and attended at the birth of her child, and for each homeless and needy mother with a nursing infant who resides at said infirmary at the request of or by permission of its officers, and wet, nurses her own infant, provided such residence shall exceed the period of two months, but the said monthly allowance of eighteen

dollars shall not be paid for a longer period than one year for any mother so remaining continuously. And to the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, twenty-five dollars for each needy mother who has received care and obstetric attendance at her home or in the lying-in wards of the said hospital, for such care and obstetric attendance, and the further sum of eighteen dollars per month and proportionately for each fraction of a month for each mother attended at the birth of her child and domiciled at such hospital, but not for a longer period than one year, and also for each homeless or needy mother with a nursing infant who resides at said hospital at the request of or by permission of its officers and wet nurses her own infant, provided such residence shall exceed the period of two months. But such sums to the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women shall not exceed eight thousand dollars in the aggregate in any one

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* To St. John's Guild of the city of New York, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be applied to the maintenance and operation of its hospitals, to the support of its other charitable work and to the general uses and purposes of said society.

8. To the Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity and to the Babies' Hospital of the city of New York, respectively, at the rate of thirty-eight cents per day for each and every foundling or infant received and maintained by them. And also for each and every homeless and needy mother with a nursing infant, who shall reside at the asylum, or at said hospital, by request of its officers, and nurses her own infant, the sum of eighteen dollars per month. To the babies' wards of the Post-Graduate Hospital in the city of New York, at the rate of thirty-eight cents per day for each and every infant received and cared for therein.

9. To the Nursery and Child's Hospital, the sum of five dollars per week for every destitute woman admitted into its lying--in wards, according to the time of the said woman's continuing under the care of the said institution, and the further sum of ten dollars per month for each and every child born in the institution or supported and maintained by said institution, when

ever it may be necessary or expedient to place said child in the country, or for want of room in the institution to find accommodation for it elsewhere; and also the sum of ten dollars per month for all children received and retained in the Nursery and Child's Hospital, in the city of New York, and in like proportion for any fraction of a year for each and every destitute child which may be supported and maintained in said institution. To the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, for board, nursing and medical or surgical aid and attendance, one dollar per day for each needy and charity patient who occupies a bed in said hospital and who receives such care, support and maintenance; such payments not to exceed in the aggregate thirty thousand dollars per annum. To the New York Homeopathic College and Hospital, for board, nursing and medical or surgical aid and attendance, one dollar per day for each needy and charity patient who occupies a bed in the Flower Surgical Hospital, belonging to said New York Homeopathic College and Hospital, and who receives such care, support and maintenance; such payment not to exceed in the aggregate twelve thousand dollars per annum.

10. To the New York Infant Asylum, a sum of money at the rate of thirty-eight cents per day, in monthly payments, for each and every child received and maintained by said asylum; a further sum of twenty-five dollars for each homeless or needy mother who receives care and attendance in the lying-in wards of the asylum; the further sum of eighteen dollars per month, and proportionately for any fraction of a month, for each homeless or needy mother who is domiciled in the asylum and attended at the birth of her child, and resides at the asylum by the request of its officers, and wet nurses her own infant; and for each other homeless or needy mother with a nursing infant who resides at the asylum by the request of its officers and wet nurses her own infant; provided, however, that in each case such residence must exceed the period of two months, and that said monthly allowance shall not be paid for a longer period than for one year for any mother so remaining.

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20. * * * And to the Sloan Maternity Hospital in the city of New York, the sum of five dollars per week for every

destitute woman admitted into its lying-in ward, according to the time of the said woman continuing under the care of the said institution, and the further sum of ten dollars per month for each and every child born in the institution or supported and maintained by said institution, but such sums shall not exceed eight thousand dollars in any one year. And to the New York Female Asylum for lying-in women, twenty-five dollars for each homeless and needy mother who has received care and attention in the lyingin ward of the asylum, for such care and obstetric attendance, but such sums shall not exceed eight thousand dollars in any one year.

21. To the Mothers' and Babies' Hospital, fifteen dollars for each homeless and needy mother who has received care and attention in the lying-in ward of the hospital, for such care and obstetric attendance, not to exceed three hundred patients in any one year.

22. Such other sum or sums as are, or may be by law directed or authorized to be raised and paid for charitable purposes or to private or incorporated societies, associations, asylums, hospitals, corporations, institutions, protectories, homes or schools.

23. The board of estimate and apportionment are hereby authorized in their discretion to include in their annual statements and estimates the following specified sums of money for the respective purposes herein stated, namely: Four thousand dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Hospital (formerly City Hospital); four thousand dollars to be paid to the Long Island College Hospital; four thousand dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospital; fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Central Dispensary; fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn City Dispensary; fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Eclectic Dispensary; fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Homeopathic Dispensary; five thousand dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Eastern District Dispensary and Hospital (formerly the Williamsburgh Dispensary); fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to the Long Island College Dispensary; fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to the Gates Avenue Homeopathic Dispensary; four thousand dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Nursery and Infants' Hospital; fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to the Brooklyn Eastern District Homeopathic