§ 102. Authority to recover for the support of patients.- The medical superintendent of the hospital is hereby authorized to recover for the support of any patient therein, chargeable under the law to other counties or penitentiaries, in an action to be brought, in the name of the people of the state of New York, against the county or penitentiary, for the maintenance of said patient. $103. Tenure of office.- Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect the tenure of office of any of the present officers of the hospital. § 104. Communications with patients.- No person not authorized by law or by written permission from the superintendent of state prisons shall visit the Matteawan State hospital, or communicate with any patient therein without the consent of the medical superintendent; nor without such consent shall any person bring into or convey out of the Matteawan State hospital any letter or writing to or from any patient; nor shall any letter or writing be delivered to a patient, or if written by a patient, be sent from the Matteawan State hospital until the same shall have been examined and read by the medical superintendent or some other officer of the hospital duly authorized by the medical superintendent. But communications addressed by such patient to the county judge or district attorney of the county from which he was sentenced, shall be forwarded, after examination by such medical superintendent, to their destination. ARTICLE V. LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT. Section 110. Laws repealed. 111. When to take effect. Section 110. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. § 111. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. AN ACT to authorize payments by counties, cities, towns and villages to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions wholly or partly under private control, for care, support and maintenance. Chapter 754, Laws of 1895. Section 1. Boards of estimate and apportionment, common councils, boards of aldermen, boards of supervisors, town boards, boards of trustees of villages, and all other boards or officers of counties, cities, towns and villages, authorized to appropriate and raise money by taxation and make payments therefrom, are hereby authorized in their discretion to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments from said moneys, and from any moneys received from any other source and properly applicable thereto, to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions wholly or partly under private control, for the care, support and maintenance of their inmates, of the moneys which are or may be appropriated therefor; such payments to be made only for such inmates as are received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities; except that boards of trustees of villages and town boards of towns in which there is no hospital located, and which are situated upon and adjoin the boundary line of a neighboring state, are hereby authorized in their discretion to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments from said moneys, and from any moneys received from any other source and properly applicable thereto, to hospitals in such adjoining state for the purpose of maintaining a bed or beds in such hospital for the benefit of and to be used exclusively by the inhabitants of such village or town. Boards of trustees of villages and town boards of towns situate upon the boundary line of a neighboring state, which have appropriated and raised money by taxation for the purpose of maintaining a bed or beds in a hospital in such adjoining state and have not paid the same are hereby authorized to use said money for the purpose for which it was appropriated and raised. Payments to such hospital in an adjoining state shall be made only for such inmates as are received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities. (As amended by chapter 155 of the Laws of 1902.) PROPERTY AND FAMILIES OF ABSCONDING PERSONS. AN ACT in relation to the property and families of absconding persons. Chapter 304, Laws of 1878. Section 1. Whenever the father, or the mother being a widow or living separate from her husband, has absconded or shall abscond from his or her children or a husband from his wife, leaving any of such children or such wife chargeable, or likely to become chargeable upon the public for their support, and any real or personal estate of such father, or mother, or husband, has been or shall be seized by a superintendent of the poor or an overseer of the poor, or by a board of charities (or by other officers authorized to make such seizures), by warrant of the justices of the peace of the county where such real or personal property may be situated, and the court of sessions of the county wherein such superintendent or overscer of the poor or board of charities, or other officers authorized to make such seizure resides, has confirmed, or shall confirm said warrant and seizure and has heretofore directed, or shall hereafter direct what part of any of the said personal property shall be sold and how much if any of the proceeds of such sale and of the rents and profits of the real estate, if any, be applied toward the maintenance of the children or wife of the person so absconding, then the said superintendent or overseer of the poor, board of charities or other officers so authorized and directed, shall apply the said proceeds of sale of said personal property, or rents and profits of the real estate (as the case may be): First, to the payment of such taxes and assessments as may be outstanding and existing liens upon the said real estate, and repairs necessary to be made upon said real estate; and premiums for insurance on the buildings on said real estate and the balance, if any, directly to the maintaining, bringing up and providing for the wife, child or children so left and abandoned, as the same may be required from time to time; and for all of such expenditures they shall take proper vouchers, and from the rents and profits thereafter received from any real estate so seized they shall first pay all legal taxes and assessments, as they shall be assessed against said real estate and such premiums for insurances and expenses for such repairs thereon as they may deem necessary for the protection and preservation of said real estate, and the balance of said rents and profits shall be applied by said overseers, superintendents, boards of charities, or other persons authorized to make such seizures, to the maintaining, bringing up, and providing for the wife, child, or children, so left and abandoned, and proper vouchers shall be taken thereof. § 2. Whenever any child or children, entitled to the benefits provided by this act, shall be a minor or minors whose mother is dead and whose father has absconded from his children, or whose mother, being a widow or living apart from her husband, has absconded from her children, and such minor or minors shall have no guardian, the court of sessions having jurisdiction of this matter shall appoint some suitable person guardian ad litem or next friend of such minor or minors, whose duty it shall be to see that |