and possession, and in like manner the amount due or secured to be paid by any such right of action, claim or demand as the same shall at any time or from time to time, mature and become due or payable. And the said county treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to take the same into his custody and possession, and his receipt therefor shall be a sufficient discharge from liability to the party holding the same, and the judge or court may in such order or from time to time by any other or further order upon like notice direct that any money theretofore paid out by the county of Albany, for the maintenance or support of such indigent person, be repaid to the county out of his or her said property, and that proper provision for future support be made there from.

In case such indigent person shall die and no executor or administrator of his estate shall be appointed, the county treasurer of Albany county is authorized and directed to apply to the proper surrogate for letters of administration upon his or her estate, and shall be by said surrogate appointed; but no bond or obligation for the faithful performance of the duties of his trust shall be required of him. This section shall not apply to or effect the earnings, wages or salary of any such indigent person earned subsequent to the time that such indigent person ceases to be a charge upon such county.

If in any proceeding taken or had under this act, either or any party in interest shall demand a trial by jury of any issue or question involved, it shall be the duty of the judge or court to make an order directing that such issue or question be tried at the next circuit court of the supreme court held in his county and the same shall be there tried and disposed of and proper relief be there given. (As amended by chapter 300 of the Laws of 1885, and chapter 387 of the Laws of 1886.)

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer of the county of Albany, to include in the county tax budget submitted by him each year to the board of supervisors of said county, and the duty of said board to levy by tax and collect from the taxable property of said county, and, when collected, the said county treasurer shall pay over to the overseer of the poor of each of the towns of Berne, Bethlehem, Coeymans, Guilderland, Knox, New Scot

land, Rensselaerville, Westerlo, Colonie and Green Island, in the county of Albany, each year the sum of three hundred and ninety dollars to each, which sum shall be by said overseer expended in the relief of all persons whose care is chargeable to said county under the provisions of section twenty-three of chapter twentyseven of the general laws, and the balance thereof shall be expended for the temporary relief of the poor of said town and shall be accounted for by the said overseer of the poor in like manner as he is now by law required to account for any temporary relief fund raised in said town. (As amended by chapter 387 of the Laws of 1886, and chapter 708 of the Laws of 1897.) § 13. (Repealed by chapter 387 of the Laws of 1886.) § 14. (Repealed by chapter 387 of the Laws of 1886.)

COLUMBIA COUNTY.

AN ACT relating to the superintendent of the poor of the county of Columbia, defining his powers and duties, and regulating the exercise thereof in certain cases.

Chapter 275, Laws of 1885.

Section 1. In the county of Columbia the superintendent of the poor, who is to be elected in November next, and thereafter, shall also be the keeper of the almshouse and asylum for the insane, and the salary of such superintendent as superintendent of the poor and keeper of the almshouse and asylum for the insane, including the pay of a clerk to be employed by such superintendent, shall be fixed by the board of supervisors at their regular annual meeting before the newly elected superintendent of the poor shall enter in and upon the duties of his office, at a sum not exceeding eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum, for and during his term of office. Such salary, when so fixed and determined, shall be in full compensation to said superintendent for all services rendered and expenses incurred by him except those described in section three of this act, and excepting the use for himself and family of that part of the alınshouse known as the keeper's apartment, while he shall be keeper thereof, and also excepting the necessary food for the use of himself and fam

ily while such keeper. The said board of supervisors shall at such meeting fix and determine when and how such salary shall be payable in accordance herewith.

§ 2. The superintendent of the poor of said county shall, whenever directed so to do by resolution of the board of supervisors of said county, adopted by a majority vote of all members elected thereto, purchase all such articles as may be necessary for the support and maintenance of the poor, and of all others in the public institutions of said county, which now are, or may hereafter be placed under charge of said superintendent, by contract or otherwise, as may be directed by said resolution, and if by contract, such resolution shall designate what notice shall be given of the letting of such contract, when, where, and in whose presence proposals shall be opened, and the amount of security to be given for the faithful performance of the contract, and the said board of supervisors shall designate in said resolution who shall award the contract, and whenever the board of supervisors of said county at any meeting lawfully assembled shall direct as to the time, manner and extent of the sales of personal property to be made by such superintendent. No sales shall be made by him of such property or any part thereof except in compliance with the directions so given.

3. The actual and necessary expenses incurred by the superintendent of the poor of said county in the discharge of his official duties shall be audited and allowed to him by the board of supervisors of said county at their annual meeting upon the presentation of his bill therefor, duly itemized and verified.

§ 4. The superintendent of the poor of said county shall annually make and render, under oath to said board of supervisors a full detailed and itemized report of his receipts and disbursements as such superintendent, embracing therein in detail the products of the county farm of every name and nature and his disposition of the same, and the same shall be rendered within five days after the board of supervisors shall have convened in regular annual session by delivering the same to the clerk thereof. The failure of the superintendent to file such report or comply with any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed misconduct

in office within the meaning of chapter one hundred and thirtythree of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

DUTCHESS COUNTY.

AN ACT to provide for the presentation of proper bills for the support of indigent insane, idiotic, deaf and dumb or blind persons to the county of Dutchess and the city of Poughkeepsie by institutions for their maintenance in the state of New York, and for the proper commitment of such persons.

Chapter 465, Laws of 1885.

Section 1. All institutions in the state of New York maintaining any insane, idiotic, deaf and dumb or blind persons, whose support is properly chargeable to the county of Dutchess, are hereby required to render to the county treasurer of said county, bills for the support of such persons only as are residents of and properly chargeable to the towns of said county, and to said county and to the city treasurer of the city of Poughkeepsie, bills only for persons residents of and properly charged to said city.

§ 2. The county judge and superintendents of the poor in said county are required to specify in the commitment of any insane, idiotic, deaf and dumb or blind person from said county, the town or ward from which such person is committed.

ERIE COUNTY.

AN ACT for the support and relief of the poor, and for the government of the poor department in the county of Erie.

Chapter 461, Laws of 1867.

Section 1. There shall be elected at the next general election in the county of Erie, and in each third year thereafter, at the general election, one superintendent of the poor, to be chosen in the same manner as other county officers of said county, and whose term of office shall be three years, and shall commence on the

first day of January next succeeding his election. The terms of office of the present superintendents of the poor of the said county, shall cease and determine on the first day of January next. The superintendent of the poor of said county shall take and file his oath of office in like manner as other county officers, before entering upon the performance of the duties of such office. His salary shall be fixed by the board of supervisors of the said. county before his election, and shall not be increased or diminished during his term of office, and the same shall be a county charge. The superintendent of the poor of said county, hereafter to be elected, shall have and possess all the powers and authority and be subject to the same liabilities, pains and penalties as the superintendents of the poor of the said county now have and possess and are subject to under the present law, except as otherwise herein especially provided; and in case of any vacancy occurring in said office by death, resignation or otherwise, the board of supervisors of said county shall fill the vacancy until the next general election, when the vacancy shall be filled by the people choosing, in such election, some person to fill the same, in the same manner as the superintendent is originally chosen.

§ 2. There shall be elected at the general election in the county of Erie, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and in each third year thereafter, at the general election, a keeper of the poorhouse of said county, to be chosen in the same manner as other county officers of said county, and whose term of office shall be three years and shall commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. The term of office of the present keeper of the poorhouse shall cease and determine on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. The keeper of the poorhouse of said county shall take and file his oath of office in like manner as other county officers, before enter ing upon the performance of the duties of such office. His salary shall be fixed by the board of supervisors of said county before his election and shall not be increased or diminished during his term of office, and the same shall be a county charge. In case of any vacancy occurring in said office by death, resignation or otherwise, the county judge of said county shall fill the vacancy until the next general election, when the vacancy shall be filled