pose of teaching such females a useful trade or profession and improving their mental and moral condition. Such board of managers may credit such females with a reasonable compensation for the labor performed by them, and may charge them with the necessary expenses of their maintenance and discipline, not exceeding the sum of two dollars per week. If any balance shall be found to be due such females at the expiration of their terms of commitment, such balance may be paid to them at the time of their discharge. To secure the safe keeping, obedience and good order of the females committed to such institution, the superintendent thereof, has the same powers as to such females, as keepers of jails and penitentiaries possess as to persons committed to their custody. (Added by chapter 453 of the Laws of 1904)

§ 139-b. Clothing and money to be furnished discharged inmates. The board of managers of such institution may, in their discretion, furnish to each inmate of such institution who shall be discharged therefrom, necessary clothing not exceeding twelve dollars in value, or if discharged between the first day of November and the first day of April to the value of not exceeding eighteen dollars, and ten dollars in money, and a ticket for the transportation of one person from such institution to the place of conviction of such inmate, or to such other place as such inmate may designate, at no greater distance from such institution than the place of conviction. (Added by chapter 453 of the Laws of 1904.)

§ 139-c. Confinement of female juvenile delinquents under sentences by the courts of the United States. The superintendent of the New York state training school for girls, at IIudson, shall receive and safely keep in such institution, subject to the regnlations and discipline thereof, and the provisions of this article, any female not over the age of sixteen years convicted of any offense against the United States, under sentences of imprisonment in any court of the United States, sitting within this state, until such sentences be executed, or until such delinquent shall be discharged by due course of law, conditioned upon the United States supporting such delinquent and paying the expenses attendant upon the execution of such sentence. (Added by chapter 453 of the Laws of 1904.)

ARTICLE IX.

HOUSE OF REFUGE AND REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN.

Section 140. Names and location of house of refuge and reformatory for women.

141. Appointment of managers.

142. General powers and duties of managers.

143. Appointment and removal of officers and employees; conpensation.

144. General powers of superintendents.

145. Oaths and bonds.

146. Commitments; papers furnished by committing magistrates.

147. Return of females improperly committed.

148. Disposition of children of women so committed.

149. Conveyance of women committed.

150. Detention and rearrests in case of escapes.

151. Employment of inmates.

152. Employment of counsel.

153. Board of managers of Bedford reformatory to notify county clerks of completion thereof.

Section 140. Names and locations of house of refuge and reformatory for women. The house of correction for women located at Albion is continued and shall be known as the western house of refuge for women. The reformatory for women located. at Bedford is also continued and shall be known as the New York state reformatory for women. The house of refuge for women at Hudson shall be continued as the New York state training school for girls, as provided in article eight of the state charities law. No female over the age of sixteen years shall be committed to the New York state training school for girls after June first, nineteen hundred and four. All inmates of the house of refuge for women at Hudson on June first, nineteen hundred and four, unless transferred therefrom pursuant to the provisions of law, shall be subject to the custody and control of the board of managers of such institution, according to the provisions of

law under which they were committed thereto. (As amended by chapter 453 of the Laws of 1904.)

§ 141. Appointment of managers.- Each such institution shall be under the control of its present board of managers, until others are appointed. Such boards shall consist of six managers to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. All such managers shall be residents of the state, two shall be women and one a physician who has practiced his pro fession for ten years. The terms of the managers hereafter appointed shall be six years, except that the managers appointed to fill vacancies shall hold office for the unexpired terms of the managers whom they succeed. The term of office of one of such managers shall expire each year. If in any such institution there be less than six managers in office when this act takes effect, the governor shall appoint additional managers to make up the number of six, who shall be so classified by him that the term of one manager shall expire each year. Where the term of office of a manager of any such institution expires at a time other than the last day of December in any year, the term of office of his successor is abridged so as to expire on the last day of December, preceding the time when such term would otherwise expire, and the term of office of each manager thereafter appointed shall begin on the first day of January.

The governor may remove any manager, at any time, for cause, on giving to such manager a copy of the charges against him and an opportunity to be heard in his defense.

Such managers shall receive no compensation for their time or services; but the actual expenses necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their official duties shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses of such institution. Nothing contained in this section shall abridge the term of any manager now in office.

§ 142. General powers and duties of managers. Each board of managers shall have the general superintendence, management and control of the institution over which it is appointed; of the grounds and buildings, officers and employes thereof; of the inmates therein, and of all matters relating to the govern

ment, discipline, contracts and fiscal concerns thereof, and may make such rules and regulations as may seem to them necessary for carrying out the purposes of such institutions. Each board of managers shall constitute a board of parole of the institution over which it is appointed, and shall have power to parole and discharge inmates as hereinafter provided. In the consideration of the parole or discharge of any inmate of the New York state reformatory for women at Bedford, the judge or magistrate who committed any female to such institution, when he so requests in writing, shall constitute a member of such board of parole in considering and determining the matter of the parole or discharge of such female committed by him. (As amended by chapter 165 of the Laws of 1904.)

§ 143. Appointment and removal of officers and employes; compensation. The board of managers of each of such institutions shall appoint from among its members a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall hold office for such length of time as such board may determine.

They shall appoint a female superintendent, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board.

Such boards of managers shall fix the compensation of the officers and employes of the institution under their charge.

§ 144. General powers of superintendents. The superintendent of each such institution shall, subject to the direction and control of the board of managers thereof:

1. Have the general supervision and control of the grounds and buildings of the institution, the subordinate officers and employes and the inmates thereof, and of all matters relating to their government and discipline.

2. Make such rules, regulations and orders, not inconsistent with law or with the rules, regulations or directions of the board of managers, as may seem to her proper or necessary for the government of such institution and its officers and employes; and for the employment, discipline and education of the inmates thereof.

3. Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as the board of managers may prescribe.

Such superintendents shall also have power to appoint and remove all subordinate female officers and employes, subject to the approval of the board.

§ 145. Oaths and bonds.- Each manager and superintendent of such institutions shall take the constitutional oath of office and each superintendent shall execute a bond to the people of this state in the sum of five thousand dollars with sureties approved by the state comptroller, which shall be filed in the office of the comptroller. The manager appointed as treasurer of such institution shall give a bond in such amount as the comptroller may direct. The comptroller may require other officers of such institutions to give a bond if in his opinion the interests of the state demand it. (As amended by chapter 49 of the Laws of 1900.)

§ 146. Commitments; papers furnished by committing magis

trate.

Subdivision 1.* A female between the ages of fifteen and thirty years, convicted by any court or magistrate of petit larceny, vagrancy under subdivision three or four of section eight hundred and eighty-seven of the code of criminal procedure, habitual drunkenness, of being a common prostitute, or frequenting disorderly houses or houses of prostitution, or of a misdemeanor, and who is not insane, nor mentally or physically incapable of being substantially benefited by the discipline of either of such institutions, may be sentenced and committed to the western house of refuge for women at Albion or the New York state reformatory for women at Bedford, to be there confined under the provisions of law relating to such institution. Such commitments shall not be for a definite term, but any such female may be paroled or discharged at any time after her commitment by the board of managers of such institution, but shall not in any case be detained longer than three years. Such commitments to the western house of refuge for women at Albion, shall be from

* By section 698 of the Penal Code women between the ages of fifteen and thirty, convicted of a felony for the first time, may be committed to the Houses of Refuge for Women or to the New York State Reformatory at Bedford, to be confined under the provisions of law relating to such institutions. See page 92.