and place of such opening to be given by the city treasurer. Onethird of the amount of the principal of the bonds so issued shall become due and payable one year from the date of the issue, and one-third of the principal thereof, each and every year thereafter until said bonds be fully paid. The common council of said city is authorized to raise by general tax levy in each and every year after the passage of this act the amount of principal and interest of said bonds due in each such year. The moneys received from the sale of the bonds shall be placed by the city treasurer to the credit of the city hospital fund, and shall be used only for the purposes of this act.

CITY OF KINGSTON HOSPITAL, KINGSTON.

AN ACT to amend chapter seven hundred and forty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the several acts in relation to the city of Kingston, to revise the charter of said city, and to establish a city court therein and define its jurisdiction and powers."

Chapter 91, Laws of 1900.

Section 1. Subdivision four of section seventy-seven of chapter seven hundred and forty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

4. Contract with the city of Kingston hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of the city poor thereat and expend therefor forty-five hundred dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

CORTLAND HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, CORTLAND.

AN ACT authorizing appropriations by the board of supervisors of Cortland county for the support and maintenance of inmates of the hospital of the Cortland hospital association,

Chapter 132, Laws of 1904.

Section 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Cortland, are hereby authorized to appropriate to the Cortland hospital association, a corporation located in said county, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of the hospital of said corporation, as may be received and retained therein, pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, such sums annually as said board of supervisors shall deem proper, and payment may be made therefor subject to such rules. The amount appropriated in any one year shall not exceed one thousand dollars. The board of managers of said corporation shall report annually in writing to the board of supervisors of such county the number of patients so received and cared for, with their names, age, sex, nature of disease or wounds and date of entrance and departure from the hospital.

THE ELMIRA CITY TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM. AN ACT to authorize the city of Elmira to accept from Charles E. Rapelyea and Alice Spaulding Rapelyea a gift of certain land outside of the city of Elmira, with a hospital fully equipped for the treatment of tuberculosis patients, and to provide for the maintenance thereof.

Chapter 6, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. The acceptance by the common council of the city of Elmira of a gift to the city consisting of about eleven acres of land in the town of Elmira, with a hospital thereon for tuberculosis patients to be fully equipped by the donors, tendered to the city by Charles Rapelyea and Alice Spaulding Rapelyea subject to the following conditions: First: That the same be maintained from public funds of the city of Elmira; Second: That the same shall be free to the citizens of Elmira, except that the city may receive compensation for the care of patients who are able to pay therefor; Third: That if the same should at any time cease to be maintained by the city as a tuberculosis hospital that the same shall revert to the said donors, their heirs or assigns,

is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the said city is hereby authorized to make necessary provision for carrying out the objects of said gift and to comply with the conditions thereof, and to provide for the care, preservation and maintenance of said hospital.

§ 2. The said hospital shall be known as "The Elmira City Tuberculosis Sanatorium." The said city may acquire by con demnation additional lands if necessary adjacent thereto.

§ 3. The management of said hospital shall be vested in a board of managers, which shall consist of seven members until the deaths of the survivor of the donors, after which time the said board shall consist of six members, of which the mayor of the city and the health officer of the city shall be ex officio members. One of the members of said board shall be named by the said donors or the survivor of them; one of the members shall be a physician named by the Academy of Medicine of the city of Elmira; one of them shall be named by the members of the board of supervisors elected from the city of Elmira; the other two members shall be nominated by the mayor, subject to the approval of the common council of the city, one of whom shall be a member of the board of relief of the said city. The mayor shall be the chairman of said board. The terms of office of the said managers shall be two years from the date of their appointment and until their successors are named. No member of the said board. of managers shall receive compensation for his services, or be financially interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract made in behalf of said hospital by said board. In case of death or resignation of any member of the board the successor of such member shall be appointed for the unexpired term of said member in the same manner in which said member was originally appointed thereto.

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§ 4. Said board of managers shall make rules and regulations for the conduct of said hospital. It shall make all needful bylaws, rules and regulations for the government of the proceedings of the said board of managers, and shall fix the terms for care and board upon which all persons who are able to pay therefor shall be admitted thereto; but no person, resident of the city. of Elmira, shall be refused admission to said hospital because

of his or her inability to pay. It shall appoint all necessary employees, nurses and servants and fix their compensation. The said board of managers shall as far as possible provide for the care of all residents of the city and town of Elmira afflicted with tuberculosis therein, and may in its discretion provide for the carẻ of such patients from other towns in the county and of the state, but no patient shall be admitted to said hospital other than & resident of the city of Elmira except upon payment by said patient or otherwise of a reasonable compensation for such care and maintenance; and the town of Elmira shall be subject to no expense on account of said hospital other than for the care of patients therein. The said board of managers shall not admit to said hospital without compensation any persons who have not been residents of said city for at least one year prior to thei. application for admittance thereto.

§ 5. Within five days after the first day of the annual meeting of the board of supervisors in November in each year the said board of managers shall present to the said board of supervisors its estimate of the amount of moneys necessary for the maintenance of the said hospital for the ensuing year. This estimate shall be referred to the members of said board elected from the city of Elmira, who shall determine what amount of moneys shall be raised and shall be placed in the county tax levy, to be levied upon taxable property situate within the city of Elmira, and the sum so raised shall be deposited together with the moneys received by said board for the care of patients with the chamberlain of the city of Elmira to the credit of the said hospital fund. All accounts for the care and maintenance of said hospital shall be audited monthly by the said supervisors from the city of Elmira, constituting the city board of auditors, and paid by said city chamberlain from the said hospital funds upon a certificate signed by the chairman of the city board of auditors. Until the said fund shall be so raised, and hereafter, if said fund shall be insufficient at any time to pay the expenses in the care and management of the said hospital so audited by said city board of auditors, a certificate of audit, signed by the chairman of said board of auditors, of any claim shall be deemed a legal obligation of the city of Elmira, which sum with legal interest shall be included

in the next county tax levy, together with the fund estimated by said city board of auditors to be raised for the maintenance of said hospital for the next ensuing year.

6. At the first meeting of the common council after the first lay of January, the said board of managers shall make full report to the common council of the city of Elmira of all expenditures in behalf of said hospital during the preceding year and of all moneys received for the care of patients therein. At the next meeting following the receipt of said report any member of the council may give notice of a motion that he will make at the first meeting of the said council to be held in the month of February for a determination of the question whether it is advisable for the city to continue to maintain the said hospital. Said notice shall be published in two daily papers of the city each day thereafter until the said first meeting in February. At said meeting representatives of the citizens shall be allowed to be heard upon this motion, and the city shall continue to maintain the same unless said council shall determine otherwise by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to said council. If by said vote it shall be determined to discontinue the support of the said hospital the said discontinuance shall operate from the first day of April following such determination and the said hospital with its appurtenances and equipment together with the real estate donated to the city the acceptance of which is authorized hereby, shall revert to the said donors, their heirs or assigns. And after payment of the debts of said hospital the moneys remaining in said hospital fund shall be placed in the poor fund of the city.

FLAGLER HOSPITAL, LOCKPORT.

AN ACT to revise the charter of the city of Lockport.

Chapter 120, Laws of 1886.

§ 231. The common council shall have power in each year to cause a sum not exceeding eighty-one thousand one hundred fifty dollars, to be raised by general tax in said city, whereof they may expend in each fiscal year for the several purposes hereinafter in this section specified, a sum not exceeding the amounts herein