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pensation as shall be authorized and provided by ordinance duly enacted by the common council of said city, and to define the duties of such employees. Said commissioners shall visit and inspect such hospital or hospitals at least once every month, and shall from time to time appoint a committee of their number who shall visit and inspect such hospital as often as may be necessary. With the authority of the commission, any member thereof may expend such money as may be necessary to the efficient discharge of the duties of the commission and the conduct and government of the hospital, provided that in no case shall the disbursements in any fiscal year exceed the sums appropriated by the city for such year for the government and maintenance of said hospital, unless and until such excess of funds shall have been provided by the common council in the form and manner prescribed by the charter of said city. No contract creating a liability in excess of five hundred dollars shall be authorized or entered into by said commission without the authority of the common council expressed by resolution.

3. The common council of the city of Buffalo shall every year grant to the said commission for specifically stated purposes, such sum of money as to the common council shall appear reasonable and just for the government, maintenance or improvement of the said hospital or hospitals, and the money granted pursuant to this section shall be paid out of the general fund of the city. At least thirty days prior to the granting of such money each year, the said commission shall submit to the common council a statement showing in detail the specific purposes for which money will be required by the commission during the next year, and a duplicate of said statement shall be filed with the comptroller at the same time; and the money granted by the common council shall be used only for the specifically stated purposes for which it shall be granted. And no expenditure shall be made, indebtedness incurred, contract entered into or order given which will cause to be overdrawn any amount so granted for a specifically stated purpose; but by vote of the common council any money or a part thereof granted for one specific purpose may be transferred for use by the commission for a different purpose. Any indebted

ness incurred, contract entered into or order given which overdraws the money granted by the common council for any specific purpose, contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be absolutely void and ineffectual against the city.

4. The said commissioners shall hold their first meeting within thirty days after this act takes effect, at the mayor's office in said city, and shall hold regular meetings at least once a month, at such times as may be fixed by their rules.

§ 5. Said commission shall, in the month of January every year, make to the common council of said city a full report of its proceedings and work and a detailed statement of all its receipts and expenditures for the preceding fiscal year, and such report and statement shall be entered in the journal of the board of aldermen and printed in its minutes.

§ 6. The office of any one of said commissioners who shall fail to attend the meetings of the commission for three successive months, without reason therefor satisfactory to the mayor or without leave of absence from the commission, shall be deemed vacant and the vacancy shall be filled by the mayor.

§ 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, but no provision of any statute shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by this act except so far as such provision shall be in conflict herewith.

LADIES' HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, PORT CHESTER.

AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Rye to appropriate certain moneys to the Ladies' Hospital Association of Port Chester.

Chapter 245, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. The town board of the town of Rye is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town of Rye under the provisions of the liquor

tax law, to the Ladies' Hospital Association of Port Chester, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of Rye, owned and conducted by said association, as may be received therein, pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, a sum which in any one year shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars; and such appropriation shall be made only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the town of Rye, requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. The supervisor of the said town shall make payment of such moneys to said hospital association when authorized and directed so to do by the said town board, and such annual payment may commence at the time when this act goes into effect, or at any time thereafter, and may be made at such time or times and in such instalments, or otherwise, as the said town board may direct, provided the same shall not in any one year exceed the aforesaid sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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LITTLE FALLS HOSPITAL, LITTLE FALLS.

AN ACT to incorporate the city of Little Falls.

Chapter 565, Laws of 1895.

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may contract with an incorporated hospital located within the city for the nursing and support of such class or classes of injured or sick persons, as may be stated in such contract, and who are received and retained in such hospital pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, and appropriate and pay therefor to such hospital an annual sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars; (As amended by chapter 12 of the Laws of 1903.)

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NASSAU HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, NASSAU.

AN ACT authorizing the raising and appropriating by the town of North Hempstead of moneys to support inmates of the hospital of the Nassau Hospital association, at Mineola, in the town of North Hempstead.

Chapter 553, Laws of 1897.

Section 1. It shall be lawful for the electors of the town of North Hempstead, at any regular town meeting, to vote by ballot a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars in any year, for the purpose of paying the Nassau Hospital association, a corporation located at Mineola, in the town of North Hempstead, county of Queens, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of the hospital as may be received and retained therein from the town of North Hempstead pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities. The board of managers of said corporation shall report annually in writing to the town board of North Hempstead the number of patients received and cared for, with their names, age, sex, nature of disease or wounds and date of entrance and departure from the hospital.

2. The amount voted at such town meeting shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as other expenses of said town, and shall be paid to the supervisor of the town of North Hempstead, who shall pay such sum to the managers of the Nassau Hospital association at such times and in such manner as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of section one of this act. AN ACT authorizing the raising and appropriating by the town of Hempstead of moneys to support inmates of the hospital of the Nassau Hospital association, at Mineola, in the town of North Hempstead.

Chapter 615, Laws of 1897.

Section 1. It shall be lawful for the electors of the town of Hempstead, at any regular town meeting, to vote by ballot a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars in any year, for the purpose of paying the Nassau Hospital association, a corporation located at Mineola, in the town of North Hempstead, county of Queens, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of the hospital as may be received and retained therein from the town of Hempstead pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities. The board of managers of said corporation shall report annually in writing to the town board of Hempstead the number of patients received and cared for, with their names, age, sex, nature of disease or wounds, and date of entrance and departure from the hospital.

§ 2. The amount voted at such town meeting shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as other expenses of said town, and shall be paid to the supervisor of the town of Hempstead, who shall pay such sum to the managers of the Nassau Hospital association at such times and in such manner as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of section one of this act. AN ACT authorizing the raising and appropriating by the town of Oyster Bay of money to support inmates of the hospital of the Nassau Hospital association, at Mineola, in the town of North Hempstead.

Chapter 616, Laws of 1897.

Section 1. It shall be lawful for the electors of the town of Oyster Bay, at any regular town meeting, to vote by ballot a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars in any year, for the purpose of paying the Nassau Hospital association, a corporation located at Mineola, in the town of North Hempstead, county of Queens, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates. of the hospital as may be received and retained therein from the town of Oyster Bay, pursuant to rules established by the state. board of charities. The board of managers of said corporation shall report annually, in writing, to the town board of Oyster Bay the number of patients received and cared for, with their names, age, sex, nature of disease or wounds and date of entrance and departure from the hospital.

§ 2. The amount voted at such town meeting shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as other expenses of said town, and shall be paid to the supervisor of the town of Oyster Bay, who shall pay such sum to the managers of the Nassau 'Hospital association at such times and in such manner as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of section one of this

act.

NEW ROCHELLE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, NEW AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of New Rochelle in relation to the New Rochelle hospital.

Chapter 501, Laws of 1903.

Section 1. Section fifty-two of article four of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and

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