tenance, care or support of poor persons at public expense, shall put up at auction or sale, the keeping, care or maintenance of any such poor person to the lowest bidder, and every contract which may be entered into in violation of this provision shall be void. § 140. Reports of certain other officers. The provisions of this chapter, relating to reports by superintendents of the poor, to the state board of charities, and the penalties applicable thereto, are hereby extended to, and made applicable to the commissioners of public charities for the city and county of New York, the superintendent of the almshouse of the county of Albany, the keeper of the almshouse of the county of Putnam, the commissioners of the almshouse elected in the cities of Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, and all poor officials elected or appointed in other cities of this state, under general or special acts of the legislature. § 141. Almshouse commissioners to report. The commissioners of the almshouse of the cities of Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, and the poor officers of other cities chosen under special acts of the legislature, shall annually, on the first day of December, report to the superintendent of the poor of their respective counties such statistics as, from time to time, may be required to be reported in the other cities and towns under the provisions of this chapter. § 141-a. Reports with relation to children placed in family homes. The superintendents of the poor of counties, the overseers of the poor of cities and towns and all other public officers by whatsoever name or title known who are authorized by law to place out dependent children in family homes by adoption, indenture or otherwise, are hereby required to report to the state board of charities on blanks provided by such board, the particulars with relation to each child so placed out. Such report shall state the name, age and sex of the child so placed out, together with the father's full name and residence, the mother's full name and residence, and the religious faith of the parents. The report shall also state the full names and residence of the heads of the family with whom such child is placed, their relationship to the child, if any, the religious faith of the heads of such family, and their occupation or occupations, together with such further information as the state board of charities may require on the blanks provided. Such reports for the preceding month shall be filed with the state board of charities on or before the tenth day of each month. (Added by chapter 273 of the Laws of 1905.) § 142. Report of state board of charities.-The state board of charities shall include in its annual report to the legislature the results of the information obtained from the reports to be made to it as herein provided. It shall also, from time to time, furnish to the officials so required to report it, necessary forms, blanks and instructions required in making up such reports. § 143. The supervisor of a town may as such official accept a deed or conveyance of real property or mortgage thereon in behalf of the town, and sell and convey such real property or mortgage the same after the expiration of one year from the date of such conveyance or mortgage for the care and maintenance of a poor person. No such deed or conveyance shall be accepted by him, unless by the written consent of the town board given at any regular meeting thereof. Such consent shall be filed in the office of the town clerk. The person or persons giving such deed or mortgage may within one year from the date of such conveyance or mortgage secure a conveyance or cancellation of said deed or mortgage upon payment to said supervisor of the expense incurred by such town for taxes and necessary repairs on said property and also in maintaining such person or persons. (Added by chapter 117 of the Laws of 1902.) A bequest to a town in trust in perpetuity for the benefit of the poor of the town generally, not confined to those for whose support the town is under statutory liability, is invalid for want of an ascertained beneficiary. Court of Appeals, February, 1891, Fosdick v. Hempstead, 125 N. Y. 581; s. c. 35 St. Rep. 863; reversing s. c. 29 St. Rep. 545; 8 N. Y. Supp. 772; see s. c. 126 N. Y. 651. ARTICLE IX. LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT. Section 150. Laws repealed. 151. When to take effect. Section 150. Laws repealed.-Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. 151. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and inety-six. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Revised Statutes, part I, ch. 20, tit. I.... All. All. SPECIAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE CARE OF THE POOR IN CERTAIN COUNTIES OF NEW YORK STATE. ALBANY COUNTY. AN ACT to provide for the care, transportation and commitment, and the payment therefor, of lunatics, idiots, persons of unsound mind, deaf-mutes, orphans and paupers, the expense of whose maintenance and transportation is a charge upon the county of Albany, and to define the duties of the superintendent of the almshouse in the city of Albany. Chapter 354, Laws of 1884. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor of the several towns in the county of Albany, of the village of West Troy, and of the city of Cohoes and of the city of Albany, whenever any lunatic, idiot, person of unsound mind, deaf-mute, or pauper within the jurisdiction of such officers respectively shall be or become by law chargeable to the county of Albany and shall be lawfully committed to the almshouse or any asylum or other place provided for the safe keeping of such persons, to transport such persons (subject, in case of their sickness, lameness or other disability, to the provisions of section forty-two of title one of chapter twenty of part one of the Revised Statutes of this state) to the city of Albany, and deliver him or her to the superintendent of the almshouse in the said city, as hereinafter provided for. Whenever notified by any such overseer that any such person has or is about to arrive by any public conveyance at any place in the city of Albany, and whenever notified by the overseer of the poor of the city of Albany that any such person is within the said city it shall be the duty of the said superintendent to send for and cause such person to be transported to the almshouse in said city, or to the asylum or other place where he is lawfully committed, in a proper conveyance to be kept at such almshouse for that purpose. 17-VOL. 3 |