PRACTICE.

At a given signal (fire alarm) the children in each school room or dormitory form in squads under the direction of the teacher or caretaker, and march out into the corridors where they take their proper places in the formation composed of the entire population on that floor of the building. The entire company then marches in regular order and without delay or confusion down the stairs and out of the building, following a similar company made up of the children from the floor below. The company of children from the first floor should march out first, followed by the company from the second floor and so on through the building. If the building has more than one exit the companies may be formed accordingly so as to secure more rapid dismissal.

The outside fire escapes as well as the interior stairways should be used as means for egress during these drills, so that the children may become accustomed to them and be able to leave the building by any means of exit without confusion or panic in case the interior stairway should be cut off by fire or smoke.

All employees should be instructed in the use of the extinguishers and other fire-fighting apparatus as a part of the fire drill and certain of them, other than the teachers and caretakers if possible, assigned to particular duties in connection with the use of this apparatus, when an alarm is given.

Where infants and small children are in the institution the drill should include practice in the speedy removal of these children by the caretakers, nurses and other employees assigned to this duty.

2. HOSPITALS, HOMES FOR THE AGED AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS

WITH HELPLESS INMATES.

In these institutions the removal of patients in the event of fire is more difficult and laborious than in those cases where the inmates are active persons. Many of the patients must be carried out bodily, some of them on mattresses or stretchers, and without delay or injury. Accordingly the fire drill cannot be actively participated in by the patients but must consist in the practice of movements looking to the rapid removal of patients by the nurses, orderlies and employees. For medical reasons it

is often not advisable to actually remove the patients from the ward during the drill, but this fact does not affect materially either the need for or the value of such a drill.

The employment of a competent expert for a brief period sufficient to instruct and train the staff of employees, as has been done in some of the larger public hospitals in New York City, is recommended by the board, where possible.

The drill should include the following matters:

1. Instruction of the staff of employees in the use of the firefighting appartus, and practice in the same.

2. The organization of the staff for the purposes of this drill and the assignment of the resident physicians, nurses, and employees to particular positions and duties in connection with the work of removing the patients; these positions to be taken immediately upon the signal (alarm) being given.

3. Instruction and practice in the handling and carrying of stretchers and other work having to do with the removal of patients.

Weekly or fortnightly practice of these drills is necessary to secure and retain their effectiveness.

STATUTES AND RULES RELATING TO CORPORATIONS. The written approval of the State Board of Charities is neces

sary

1. For the incorporation of any institution for the purpose of receiving, boarding or keeping any nursing children, or any children under the age of twelve years, not pupils or wards.

(Chapter 171, Laws of 1894, referring to Penal Code, section 288.)

2. For the extension of the purposes of a membership corporation, if the care of orphan, pauper or destitute children be included.

(Chapter 559, Laws of 1895, Article 1, section 4.)

3. For the incorporation of any membership corporation mentioned in the second paragraph of section 31 of Article II of the

Membership Corporations Law, chapter 559 of the Laws of 1895, and of hospital corporations.

4. The State Board of Charities shall approve or disapprove the organization and incorporation of all institutions of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character, which are or shall be subject to the supervision and inspection of the board. (Art. I, sec. 9, subd. 4, chap. 546, Laws of 1896.)

RULES OF STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES TO BE OBSERVED BY PERSONS PRESENTING CERTIFICATES OF INCORPORATION FOR APPROVAL.

The rules to be observed as to all certificates of incorporation presented to the State Board of Charities for its approval are as follows:

1. Such certificate shall be executed in duplicate and presented in due form, duly executed, and acknowledged by the proper persons before competent officers, as the special law may direct, and without erasures or interlineations; and should contain in full every statement directed by the statute. In the articles hereinbefore given these statements are italicized.

2. Each certificate shall state the law under which it is proposed to incorporate.

3. A copy of such certificate shall also be furnished for filing with the State Board of Charities.

Additional rules setting forth the duties of the Commissioners and the officers of the Board in regard to certificates of incorporation and application for approval are laid down in Article X of the By-Laws.

BY-LAWS OF THE BOARD.

(As amended to June 1, 1902.)

I. ON THE MEETINGS OF THE BOARD.

1. Stated meetings of the Board shall be held on the second Wednesday in January, April, July and October, and unless otherwise ordered by the Board, at 3 o'clock p. m.

2. All stated meetings of the Board shall be held at the office of the Board at the Capitol in the city of Albany, unless otherwise specially ordered by the Board.

3. The Board, or the President, may direct special meetings to be called.

4. The President shall direct a special meeting to be called on the written request of two Commissioners stating the particular purpose for which the meeting is desired.

5. Notice of meeting shall be given by mailing the notice to each Commissioner at his last known place of address, and when practicable, such notice shall be given at least ten days in ad

vance.

6. Notice of special meetings shall state the particular purposes for which the meetings are called.

1. If at the time appointed for the meeting of the Board the President and Vice-President are both absent, any Commissioner may call the meeting to order, and a chairman shall be chosen. 2. At the meetings of the Board the following order of business, unless otherwise ordered shall be observed:

Reading of the minutes of previous meetings.

Election of officers.

Reference of accounts.

Unfinished business of last meeting.

Reports of standing and special committees.

Reports on proposed incorporations.

Communications from Commissioners and officers.

Miscellaneous business.

3. At a special meeting, the object of the meeting shall be stated by the chair immediately after the minutes of the last meeting have been read, and no other business than that stated in the call shall be considered at such meeting, unless ordered by the concurrent vote of all the Commissioners present.

4. All resolutions shall be in writing and, with the name of the mover, shall be entered on the minutes.

5. On the demand of any Commissioner, the vote on any question shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the minutes. 6. All questions of order and proceeding, not specially provided for in these By-Laws, shall be governed by Cushing's Manual.

7. The minutes of all meetings of the Board shall be printed as soon after adjournment as possible, and a copy furnished to each Commissioner.

III. ON THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

1. The stated meeting in April shall be the annual meeting of the Board.

2. At this meeting it shall elect by ballot a President and a Vice-President.

3. The President and Vice-President so elected shall hold their respective offices for one year and until their successors are elected.

4. All other officers or agents, unless their term of office be fixed by law, or by these By-Laws, shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board.

IV. ON THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.

1. The President shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Board, and shall preside at the meetings.

2. He shall represent the Board before the Governor, Executive Department and Legislative Committees, unless otherwise ordered by the Board and may request any Commissioner or officer to assist him or appear in his stead.

3. The Vice-President shall perform the duties of President whenever the President is unable to perform the duties assigned to him by these By-Laws.

V. ON THE SECRETARY.

1. The Secretary shall reside in the city of Albany, and shall be in attendance at the office of the Board during the hours of business, unless called elsewhere by official duties, or unless excused by the Board.

2. He shall have general supervision of employees and of all branches of the Board's work, and shall aid the Commissioners and other officers of the Board in the performance of their duties. whenever required.

3. He shall submit to the Committee on Publication, on or before the second Wednesday of October in each year, the sub