of Saratoga Springs may take his private patients and operate upon them under the same rules and regulations as the regular staff of said hospital. TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL, YONKERS. AN ACT to establish a hospital commission for the city of Yonkers, and to provide for the care of persons in said city suffering from tuberculosis in advanced stages. Chapter 586, Laws of 1910. Section 1. A hospital commission for the city of Yonkers is hereby established, consisting of the mayor and the health officer of such city, ex officio, and five other persons appointed by the mayor. Of the members first appointed, the term of one shall expire on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and eleven, and one on the thirty-first day of December of each year thereafter. Upon expiration of term a member thereafter appointed shall be appointed for a full term of five years. If a vacancy shall occur in such commission, otherwise than by expiration of term, a member shall be appointed by the mayor for the unexpired term. A member of such commission shall not receive any compensation for his services thereon, but shall be allowed. his just and reasonable expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of his duties. § 2. Such commission is hereby authorized to accept in behalf of the city, but without expense to the city, by deed or lease a suitable site for a hospital for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis in advanced stages. If such site is acquired by lease, said lease shall be in perpetuity, or so long as such site is used by the city for the purposes of said hospital, or for general hospital purposes. Upon the execution of such deed or lease, such commission shall certify the same to the board of estimate and apportionment. Such commission shall cause to be prepared plans for the construction on such site of a hospital building for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis in advanced stages, together with an estimate of the cost of constructing and equipping such building. Upon the approval of such plans and estimate by the board of estimate and apportionment, such board of estimate and apportionment, with the approval of the common council may, in its discretion, issue and sell, in the manner provided by law, bonds of such city in an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, for the purposes of constructing and equipping such hospital. Thereupon such commission shall cause such hospital to be constructed and equipped in accordance with such plans. 3. Such commission shall have the general management and control of such hospital, and may establish by-laws, rules and regulations for the government thereof, and regulating the admission of patients thereto. Such rules and regulations may fix the charges to be paid by patients who are able to pay for their care and treatment in such hospital, or who have relatives bound by law to support them who are able to pay therefor. § 4. Such commission may receive by gift, devise or bequest, in trust or otherwise, money or property to be applied to the purposes of such hospital. § 5. The city of Yonkers may, in its discretion, annually appropriate in the manner provided by law for other city purposes such sums as may be necessary for the proper support and maintenance of said hospital. § 12. General powers. The board of supervisors shall: 1. Have the care and custody of the corporate property of the county. 2. Audit all accounts and charges against the county, and direct annually the raising of sums necessary to defray them in full. 3. Annually direct the raising of such sums in each town as shall be necessary to pay its town charges. 4. Cause to be assessed, levied and collected, such other assessments and taxes as shall be required of them by any law of the state. 5. Fix the salaries and compensation of county treasurers, district attorneys and superintendents of the poor of their county, which shall be a county charge, and not be changed during the term of any such officer; and prescribe the mode of appointment, and fix the number, grade and pay of the clerks, assistants and employees in such offices, when not otherwise fixed by law, which shall be a county charge. 6. Borrow money when they deem it necessary, for the erection of county buildings, and for the purchase of sites therefor, on the credit of the county, and for the funding of any debt of the county not represented by bonds, and issue county obligations therefor, and for other lawful county uses and purposes; and authorize a town in their county to borrow money for town uses and purposes on its credit, and issue its obligations therefor, when, and in the manner, authorized by law. 12. Cause an action to be brought upon the undertaking of any county officer, whenever a breach thereof shall occur. 13. Purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, for the use of the county necessary real property for courthouses, jails, almshouses, asylums and other county buildings, and for other county uses and purposes; and erect, alter, repair or construct, any necessary buildings or other improvements thereon for necessary county use, and cause to be levied, collected and paid, all such sums of money as they shall deem necessary therefor; to select such name as they may deem proper and appropriate for the almshouse of such country and thereafter to designate such almshouse by the name so selected; and sell, lease or apply to other county use, the sites and buildings, when a site is changed; and if sold, apply the proceeds to the payment for new sites, buildings and improvements. * * * § 24. Form and presentation of accounts against the county. -No account shall be audited by a board of supervisors, or by a committee thereof, or by superintendents of the poor, unless it shall be made out in items and accompanied with an affidavit that the items of such accounts are correct, and that the disbursements and services charged therein have been in fact made or rendered, or are necessary to be made or rendered at that session of the board, and stating that no part of the amount claimed has been paid or satisfied. But any such account so presented and verified may be disallowed in whole or in part, and the board or such superintendents may require any other or further evidence of the truth or propriety thereof. Each such account shall be numbered from one upwards in the order of presentation, and a memorandum of the time of presentation and the name of the claimant, and if assigned, the name of each assignor or assignee shall be entered in the proceedings of the board. No such account, after being so presented, shall be withdrawn without the unanimous consent of the board except to be used as evidence in an action or proceeding, and after being so used it shall be forthwith returned. § 25. Additional requirements.- Boards of supervisors may make such additional regulations and requirements, not in conflict with law, concerning the keeping and rendering of official accounts and reports of its county and town officers, and the presentation and auditing of bills presented to their board or to the town boards of their county, as they may deem necessary for the efficiency of the service and the protection of the interests of the public. * § 31. Location of county buildings. The board of supervisors may, except in the county of Kings, by a majority vote of all the members elected thereto, fix or change the site of any county building, and the location of any county office; but the site or location of no county building or office shall be changed when the change shall exceed one mile, and shall be beyond the boundaries of the incorporated village or city, where already situated, except upon a petition of at least twenty-five freeholders of the county, describing the buildings or office, the site or location of which is proposed to be changed, and the place at or near which it is proposed to locate such new building or office; which petition shall be published once in each week for six weeks imme diately preceding an annual or special meeting of such board, in three newspapers of the county, if there be so many, otherwise, in all the newspapers published in the county as often as once a week. With such petition shall also be published a notice, signed by the petitioners, to the effect that such petition will be presented to the board of supervisors at the next meeting thereof. The board of supervisors of any county may acquire a new site or location for the county almshouse, erect suitable buildings thereon, and remove the inmates of the existing almshouse thereto, upon a majority vote of all the members elected to said board at a regular session thereof or at a special session called for that purpose, in any case where the state board of charities shall have certified to said board of supervisors that in the opinion of a majority of said state board of charities such change is necessary to the proper care of the inmates of such institution; in which case it shall not be necessary to receive or publish the petition hereinbefore provided or to submit the question of change or removal to the electors of such county as provided in sections thirty-two and thirty-three of this chapter; provided, however, that no site or location shall be selected or acquired by such board of supervisors which shall not have been approved by said state board of charities. § 34. After destruction of poor-house, petition for change of site. Whenever any county poor-house or alms-house shall have heretofore been, or shall hereafter be destroyed by fire or otherwise, twelve or more resident freeholders of the county may present to the chairman of the board of supervisors of the county a petition for the change of site of such county poor-house. If the annual meeting of the board of supervisors is to be held at any time within three months following the presentation of such petition to the chairman, he shall cause the same to be presented to such annual meeting for the consideration and action of such board; but if an annual meeting of the board is not to be held within three months following the presentation of such petition to the chairman, he shall, upon the presentation of such petition to him, cause a special meeting of such board to be convened for |