3. The said board of alms shall have control of the funds applicable to the relief of the poor in said town, and the disposition of the same. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum to do business. Said board of alms shall have power to procure, by rent or purchase, suitable grounds and buildings for a town almshouse, but no purchase shall be made unless specially authorized by a vote of the electors of the town at an annual town meeting, nor at a cost exceeding five thousand dollars.

8 4. The overseer of the poor appointed by the said board of alms shall hold his office for one year from the second Monday in May of each year, and no longer unless reappointed. The board of alms of said town shall determine his compensation for all such services rendered by him as such overseer which shall not exceed four hundred dollars per annum. (As amended by chapter 414 of the Laws of 1895.)

§ 5. The board of alms of said town shall appoint a treasurer of the poor funds of said town, and take such security for the faithful performance of his duties, and to account and pay over the funds intrusted to him, as they shall deem adequate and shall approve, and they shall determine his compensation, which shall not exceed fifty dollars per annum. The said treasurer shall hold

his office for one year and until his successor is appointed. The said board shall keep a record of all proceedings and shall adopt all needful rules as to their meetings and as to the management and dispensation of the funds for the relief of the poor under their control, and for the government of the treasurer and overseer of the poor.

§ 6. All moneys appropriated for the relief of the poor of said town shall be paid over to the treasurer of the poor fund of said town, and all payments and disbursements shall be made by hiu. upon the order of the overseer of the poor or such other person as the board of alms may direct; and said treasurer shall not loan any moneys that may come into his hands, nor shall he use them for any other purpose than is provided for by this act. Any interest which may accrue on said fund shall be credited to said town.

7. The board of alms may cause to be purchased all or any needful supplies for the relief of the poor, in such quantities as

they may deem best, but not to exceed a supply for one year; and they may contract for such supplies, including medical and surgical services, to be delivered or rendered from time to time, as the same may be required or called for, but such contract shall not extend beyond thirty days after the annual town meeting next ensuing the time when such contract shall be made. Said board may also furnish relief to the poor in said town chargeable to the county or to any other town, and receive compensation therefor from the county or town to which such poor is chargeable.

8. The board of alms shall audit and allow all charges and. expenses incurred under their direction for the relief of the poor chargeable to the town of Herkimer, including the expense and compensation of officers, and shall report the same through the supervisor to the board of supervisors of the county at their annual meeting in each year, which shall cause the same to be inserted in the tax-list and raised as other town charges are directed to be raised. All charges and expenses for the support of the poor, chargeable to the county or to any other town of the county, shall be audited in the same manner that the charges for the support of the poor, chargeable to the county, are required by law to be audited and allowed.

89. The duties of the office of overseer of the poor of the town of Herkimer are hereby transferred to the overseer of the poor to be appointed by the said board of alms, and to be administered. under the direction of said board of alms to take effect as soon as said overseer has been appointed. The said overseer so appointed shall from time to time perform all the duties devolved upon the overseer of the poor of said town heretofore elected in and for said town; subject, however, to the direction of the board of alms and shall keep the vouchers, registers and accounts and charges required by law of overseers of the poor. He shall report to the board of alms quarterly and shall cause such report to be printed at least once in two newspapers of the village most nearly representing the two leading political parties, the names of all persons furnished and the amount to each person and family. And shall prepare annually a statement showing the names of all persons and families who have received relief and the amount to each person and family. No overseer of the poor shall be elected in said town of Herkimer after the passage of this act and the office of existing

overseer of the poor shall become vacated by the present incumbent upon an appointment of an overseer of the poor, as provided in the first section of this act. (As amended by chapter 414 of the Laws of 1895.)

§ 10. The board of alms may audit and allow for their own services a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars to be apportioned among them as a majority may direct to be deemed expenses of administering the poor fund and to be raised as provided in section eight of this act. (As amended by chapter 414 of the Laws of 1895.)

§ 11. Nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as in any way to interfere with the power of the board of supervisors in relation to auditing the poor accounts of the county.

TOWNS OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD AND OYSTER BAY, NASSAU

COUNTY.

AN ACT to appoint trustees of the Jones fund, for the support of the poor of the towns of Oysterbay and North Hempstead, in the county of Queens.*

Chapter 312, Laws of 1838.

Section 1. That Andrew C. Hegeman, Ebenezer Seely and James C. Townsend, freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Oysterbay, and Benjamin Albertson and Singleton Mitchell, freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Jones fund, for the support of the poor in said towns, and shall hold their offices for two years from the first Tuesday of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and until others are appointed in their place; and they and their successors shall be denominated "The Trustees of the Jones Fund for the support of the poor;" three of whom shall always be freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Oysterbay and two of whom shall always be freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead.

Now Nassau County.

§ 2. The freeholders and inhabitants of the said town of Oysterbay, shall, at their annual town meeting, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and in every second year thereafter, choose by ballot three freeholders and inhabitants of the said town, who with two freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead, to be chosen in like manner by ballot by the freeholders and inhabitants of said town, at their annual town meeting, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and in every second year thereafter, shall be trustees of said fund; and the persons so chosen shall hold their offices for two years, and until others are chosen in their places.

8 3. The trustees of the said fund and their successors in office shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleaded and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever, by the name of the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor," and they and their successors in office by the name aforesaid shall be capable in law of taking, holding and managing said fund or any part of the same, as was by the last wills and testaments of Samuel Jones and Walter R. Jones, deceased, devised and bequeathed to the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, for the purposes aforesaid, by the said testators, and shall also be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying, either by deed or mortgage, any real or personal estate for the use and benefit of said fund, and carrying the intent of the said testators in creating the same into full effect. (As amended by chapter 180 of the Laws of 1879, and chapter 229 of the Laws of 1880.)

4. Each of the said trustees, and their successors, before entering upon the duties of the said trust, shall execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the supervisor of their respective towns, the amount of the said bond and said sureties to be approved by the said supervisors respectively, for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in them as such trustees.

5. Any three or more of said trustees shall constitute a quorum to transact any of the business and concerns of the said trust. If any of the trustees of said fund, appointed by or chosen under this act, shall die, resign, or remove from said towns, the said trustees may appoint a person of like qualifications to fill

his place for the residue of his term of office, who shall in like nanner as above provided, execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the supervisor of the town from whence he shall be chosen, for he faithful discharge of his duty as trustee.

§ 6. The said trustees shall make an annual and full report to each of the said towns of Oysterbay and North Hempstead, at the annual town meetings thereof, of the state of the funds and property of said trust, and of the manner in which the same has been managed, and the income thereof applied during the preceding year.

87. The chancellor of this state shall have a supervisory power over said trustees and fund, and may remove any of said trustees for good cause shown, on petition or bill by any inhabitant of either of said towns.

§ 8. Each of said towns of Oysterbay and North Hempstead, may, by vote at their annual town meetings, fix and allow to said trustees and their successors or any of them, from their respective towns, such salary or compensation for their services as such towns may respectively think proper, and which said salary or compensation shall be raised and paid as other ordinary expenses of said

town.

9. This act shall be deemed a public act.

TOWN OF OSWEGATCHIE, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY. (See chapter 28, Laws of 1882, page 720.)

MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS IN REGARD TO FIRE PROTECTION IN INSTITUTIONS.

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tution for the care or treatment of individuals * provided with such good and sufficient fire escapes, stairways, or other means of egress in case of fire as shall be directed by the superintendent of buildings.

The owner or owners of any building upon which a fire escape is erected shall keep the same in good repair and properly painted. Fire escapes on the outside of buildings shall consist of open iron balconies and stairways. *

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The stairways shall be placed at an angle of not more than sixty