ninety-nine, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of New Rochelle," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subdivision to be known as subdivision thirteen, to read as follows:

13. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars annually to be paid to the New Rochelle Hospital association towards the maintenance of the New Rochelle Hospital and for the general uses and purposes of said New Rochelle Hospital association, to be designated the hospital fund.

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts, general and special, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.

NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, NIAGARA FALLS.

AN ACT to revise and consolidate the several acts relative to the city of Niagara Falls.

§ 142. The common council is hereby authorized to appropriate, subject to the approval of the board of estimate and apportionment, and the city may pay annually to the Niagara Falls memorial hospital, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of said hospital as are actual residents of the city of Niagara Falls, and are received and cared for, supported and maintained therein pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, a sum which in any one year shall not exceed ten per centum of the moneys received by the said city under the provisions of the liquor tax law.

NYACK HOSPITAL, NYACK - GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL, SUFFERN.

AN ACT authorizing appropriations by the board of supervisors of Rockland county for the support and maintenance of inmates of the Nyack hospital.

Chapter 37, Laws of 1901.

Section 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Rockland is hereby authorized in its discretion to appropriate to the Nyack hospital and to the Good Samaritan hospital of Suffern, corporations located in said county for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of the hospitals of such corporations as may be received and retained therein pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, such sums annually as such board of supervisors shall deem proper, and payment may be made therefor subject to such rules. The amount thus appropriated in any one year shall not exceed three thousand dollars to each of the said corporations. The board of managers of each of such corporations shall report annually in writing to the board of supervisors of said county, the number of patients so received and cared for, with the names, age, sex, nature of disease or wounds and date of entrance and departure from the hospital. (As amended by chapter 351 of the Laws of 1903, and chapter 528 of the Laws of 1907.)

ONEIDA PUBLIC HOSPITAL, ONEIDA.

AN ACT to incorporate the city of Oneida.

Chapter 225, Laws of 1901.

§ 53. Amount of annual city tax levy. The common council may raise by tax upon the real and personal property assessable in the city in each year certain amounts which shall be estimated and designated each year for the following purposes:

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11. A sum necessary for the maintenance of the city hospital, to be designated the "hospital fund."

OSSINING HOSPITAL, OSSINING.

AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Ossining to appropriate certain moneys to the Ossining hospital association of Ossining.

Chapter 345, Laws of 1904.

Section 1. The town board of the town of Ossining is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town of Ossining under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the Ossining hospital association of Ossining, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of Ossining, 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 said town of Ossining, 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 installments, 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.

POUGHKEEPSIE CITY TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.

AN ACT to permit the city of Poughkeepsie to establish, equip, and maintain a tuberculosis hospital, and to permit the county of Dutchess to make appropriations therefor.

Chapter 465, Laws of 1910.

Section 1. The city of Poughkeepsie shall have power to accept gifts for, and to establish, equip and maintain outside of its corporate limits, but within the county of Dutchess, subject to the

consents required by section three hundred and nineteen of the public health law, a hospital for the regular treatment of residents of the city of Poughkeepsie and the county of Dutchess for the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis, which hospital shall be under the management, control and direction of the local board of health of the city of Poughkeepsie.

2. The common council of the city of Poughkeepsie are hereby authorized to appropriate annually for said hospital such sums as said common council may deem proper.

§ 3. The board of supervisors of the county of Dutchess are hereby authorized to make appropriations for the establishment, equipment and maintenance of said hospital, and to make agreements and terms with the local board of health of the city of Poughkeepsie for the admission, care, support and maintenance in said hospital of indigent and other patients residing in the county of Dutchess outside of the city of Poughkeepsie, and the amount fixed by such agreements to be paid for the support, care and treatment of any indigent patient admitted from the county of Dutchess outside of the city of Poughkeepsie shall be a town charge upon the town of which such indigent patient was a resident.

RENSSELAER COUNTY HOSPITAL, TROY.

AN ACT to permit persons, other than those committed as indigent poor persons, to become patients in the new hospital building, about to be built and maintained by the county of Rensselaer in conjunction with its house of industry, and regulating the admission of such persons as patients to such institution.

Chapter 197, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. Any person, who has been an actual resident and inhabitant of either the cities or the several towns within the county of Rensselaer for one year or more prior to the making of the application hereinafter provided to be made in order to receive the benefits for which this act is designed, and who suffers from tuberculosis, in either its incipient or advanced form may become a pay patient in the new hospital building to be built and main

tained by the county of Rensselaer in conjunction with its House of Industry, by whatsoever name such hospital building may be known, by filing with the acting superintendent of the poor of the county a written application, upon a form furnished by him for such purpose; and, provided, it shall satisfactorily appear to such acting superintendent of the poor by a written certificate of the physician in charge of the House of Industry that such applicant is suffering from tuberculosis and that the applicant comes within the provisions of this act, and that his or her admission to such institution as a pay patient at that time will not inconvenience or exclude therefrom any indigent poor person then a patient, or likely to become a patient therein, such acting superintendent of the poor may admit, as hereinafter provided, such applicant to said hospital for care and treatment for tuberculosis. No pay patient shall be accepted, or if accepted, be retained in such hospital to the exclusion of any indigent poor person committed as a public charge and who may at such time be in need of treatment therein.

§ 2. Before such person be admitted as a patient for treatment in such hospital, he or she, or some person in his or her behalf, shall contract with the acting superintendent of the poor as to the amount to be paid for the care, support and maintenance of such patient and such acting superintendent of the poor shall fix the charge therefor, having in mind the ability of the patient to pay and the probable cost to the county for his or her care and treatment.

3. The charge in the first instance for the care and treatment of any person admitted to such hospital as a pay patient, under the provisions of this act, shall be against the city or the town which would be liable for the care, maintenance and support of such person as an indigent poor person, and the money agreed to be paid for his or her care and support therein shall be paid to the acting superintendent of the poor, who shall monthly pay over such money so received by him to the county treasurer of the county, to be by said county treasurer credited to the city or town against which said patient is a charge.

§ 4. Annually the acting superintendent of the poor shall report to the board of supervisors of the county the name and address of each patient cared for and maintained in such hospital