made effective by such superintendent, warden or other person in charge of such farms. No land shall hereafter be purchased by the state for farm purposes connected with any of the above institutions without the approval and appraisal of the commissioner of agriculture.

(Added by chapter 434 of the Laws of 1910, and amended by chapter 211 of the Laws of 1917.)

§ 12-a. Almshouse farms. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby empowered and authorized to make or cause to be made investigation and examination as to the farm lands at the almshouse farms of the various counties, the purposes to which they are best adapted and the crops which can most profitably be raised thereon, and to make report on the same to the boards of supervisors of the said counties; and to give lectures and demonstrations at least once each year at said almshouse upon the agricultural methods best adaptable to the various communities, sufficient notice of such lectures and demonstrations being given throughout all parts of the county. The commissioner of agriculture may assign members of the staff of the New York experiment station at Geneva, members of the faculties of the New York college of agriculture and of the various state schools of agriculture, subject to the approval of the directors thereof, to carry out the provisions of this section under his direction. (Added by chapter 460 of the Laws of 1913.)

§ 53. Butterine and similar products not to be purchased by certain institutions. No money appropriated by law for maintenance and support in whole or in part of a state institution; nor money received by a charitable, benevolent, penal or reformatory institution from the state, or from a county, city or town thereof, or appropriated by such county, city or town for the maintenance or support in whole or in part of such institution; nor money belonging to or used for the maintenance or support of such institution, shall be expended for the purchase of, or in payment for, butterine, oleomargarine, lard, cheese, or articles or products in imitation or semblance of natural butter or cheese produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream from the same, with articles or products have been rendered or manufactured in whole or in part

from animal fats, or animal or vegetable oils not produced from unadulterated milk or cream from the same.

$ 54. Purchase, sale and use of butterine and similar products, prohibited in certain institutions. No officer, manager, superintendent or agent of an institution mentioned in section fifty-three of this chapter, shall purchase for the use of such institution articles or products for the purchase of which the money appropriated by law, or by a county, city or town, is forbidden to be used by section fifty-three of this chapter, and no person shall sell to, or for the use of such institution, such articles or products. Nor shall such articles or products be used as articles of food or for cooking purposes in such institutions within this state.

Appropriations to certain hospitals and dispensaries in New York State

Appropriation bill. Chapter 791, Laws of 1913; provides for the care of state employees in hospitals.

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society, Oneonta, chapter 594, Laws, of 1909, authorizes the board of aldermen of the City of Oneonta to appropriate certain moneys to the hospital.

Binghamton City Hospital, Binghamton. Chapter 135, Laws of 1904, creates a board of managers and provide for the control and management of a nonsectarian city hospital. Chapter 158, Laws of 1913, authorizes appropriation (section 74).

Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk. Chapter 140, Laws of 1899, section 9. Chapter 538, Laws of 1909, section 170.

City Hospital, Jamestown. City charter, chapter 359, Laws of 1909, secs. 65-65j.

City Hospital, Lockport. Chapter 568, Laws of 1901, as amended by chapter 199, Laws of 1908. Chapter 198, Laws of 1908, sec. 231, as amended by chapter 345 of the Laws of 1910. Chapter 308 of the Laws of 1910.

City of Kingston Hospital, Kingston. Chapter 91, Laws of 1900, subdivision 4 of section 77 of chapter 747, Laws of 1896, as amended by chapter 91 of the Laws of 1900.

Cortland Hospital Association, Cortland. Chapter 132, Laws of 1904.

The Elmira City Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Chapter 6 of the Laws of 1909. Chapter 102, Laws of 1916.

Fulton City Hospital. Chapter 358, Laws of 1908, secs. 187-189b. Chapter 249, Laws of 1909.

Helping Hand Hospital Association, Peekskill. Chapter 263, Laws of 1905, as amended by chapter 672 of the Laws of 1911 and Chapter 142 of the Lavs

of 1912.

Hospital Association of the City of Schenectady. Chapter 371, Laws of -1903. Chapter 230, Laws of 1905.

Hudson City Hospital. Chapter 751, Laws of 1895, Title XXVIII, sec. 192. Ilion Hospital. Chapter 315. Laws of 1895, sec. 56, subdivision 13, as amended by Chapter 246 of the Laws of 1910.

J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital, Buffalo. Chapter 115, Laws of 1909, as amended by Chapter 50 of the Laws of 1911, and Chapter 138 of the Laws

of 1912.

Ladies' Hospital Association, Port Chester. Chapter 245, Laws of 1909. Little Falls Hospital, Little Falls. Chapter 565, Laws of 1895, sec. 57, as amended by chapter 12 of the Laws of 1903.

Lockport City Hospital, Lockport (formerly Flagler Hospital, chapter 120, Laws of 1886). Chapter 568, Laws of 1901, as amended by chapter 199, Laws of 1908.

Municipal Hospital, Buffalo. Chapter 116, Laws of 1909. Chapter 26, Laws of 1910, as amended by chapter 405 of the Laws of 1910 and chapter 553 of the Laws of 1912.

Nassau Hospital Association, Nassau. Chapter 553 of the Laws of 1897. Chapter 615 of the Laws of 1897. Chapter 616 of the Laws of 1897.

New Rochelle Hospital Association, New Rochelle. Section 52, article 4. chapter 128 of the Laws of 1899, as amended by chapter 501 of the Laws of 1903.

The Newton Memorial Hospital. Chapter 147 of the Laws of 1914.

Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital, Niagara Falls. Section 142, chapter 300. Laws of 1904, as amended by chapter 260, Laws of 1908, and chapter 157. Laws of 1910.

Nyack Hospital, Nyack. Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern. Chapter 37, Laws of 1901, as amended by chapter 351, Laws of 1903, and chapter 528. Laws of 1907.

Olean General Hospital, Olean. Section 101a of chapter 478, Laws of 1893. added by chapter 672, Laws of 1901, and amended by chapter 126, Laws of

1909.

Oneida Public Hospital, Oneida. Section 53, subdivision 11, chapter 225, Laws of 1901. Chapter 218, Laws of 1912. Chapter 63, Laws of 1916,

section 165.

Ossining Hospital Association. Chapter 189, Laws of 1917.

Poughkeepsie City Tuberculosis Hospital. Chapter 455, Laws of 1910, as amended by chapter 426 of the Laws of 1914.

Rensselaer County Hospital, Troy. Chapter 197, Laws of 1909.

St. James Mercy Hospital, Hornell. Sections 70 and 98 of chapter 288, Laws of 1906, as amended by chapter 363, Laws of 1909.

St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers; St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers; Yonkers Homeopathic Hospital, Yonkers. Chapter 635, Laws of 1895, title X, section 2, as amended by chapter 207, Laws of 1903.

St. Luke's Home and Hospital of Newburgh, New York. Chapter 272, Laws of 1897, as amended by chapter 65, Laws of 1902.

Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga Springs. Chapter 115, Laws of 1896. Chapter 316. Laws of 1898. Chapter 229, Laws of 1915, section 28.

Woman's Hospital Association of Batavia. Chapter 151, Laws of 1904. Yorkers Municipal Tuberculosis Hospital, Yonkers, Chapter 586, Laws of 1910, as amended by chapter 445 of the Laws of 1917.

CARE OF THE POOR IN EACH OF THE FIFTYNINE CITIES OF NEW YORK STATE, AS PER SPECIAL STATUTES.

Albany, Albany County.

(Note.- Commissioner of charities appointed by the mayor for the term of two years at an annual salary of $2,500.) Chapter 298, Laws of 1883.

TITLE XIV.

City Physician.

§ 1. (Repealed by chapter 580 of the Laws of 1900.)

§ 2. It shall be his duty to visit the almshouse at least once in each day, to attend and administer medical assistance to the sick in the almshouse, hospital, pesthouse and other permanent or temporary buildings now or hereafter to be erected on the almshouse farm, and direct the manner of treatment of said sick.

§ 3. He shall have power to appoint one resident physician at a salary of not more than two hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, from the fund raised for the support of the almshouse, to assist him in the discharge of his duties at said almshouse or hospital.

§ 4. He shall report on the first day of every month, and oftener if he deem it necessary, in writing, to the mayor, of the pauperism in the almshouse, the persons admitted to the pesthouse, lunatic asylum and hospital, when sent and by whom.

TITLE XV.

Superintendent of the Almshouse.

§ 1. The superintendent of the almshouse shall reside at the almshouse in the city of Albany and shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year, and shall provide his own table and that of his assistants who reside at the almshouse, from the money appropriated to the support of the almshouse. He

shall give his undivided personal attention to the duties of his office and shall be engaged in no other trade, business, occupation or employment.

§ 2. He shall have the charge, care and control of the poor and insane committed to the almshouse and of the real and personal property now used for such purposes, and of the farm and appurtenances thereto belonging and appertaining. And all persons arrested upon the charge of insanity shall be sent forthwith to and confined in the asylum attached to the Albany almshouse, and it is hereby made the duty of the superintendent of the almshouse to transfer the said person or persons to and from the said asylum when directed so to do by either of the police magistrates or the chief of police.

§ 3. All moneys appropriated to the support and maintenance of the almshouse in the city of Albany shall be paid over to the chamberlain of the city of Albany, who shall pay the same out only after an investigation and audit, by the board of audit, as hereinbefore provided, of the claims presented, and after the certificate of the superintendent shall have been given as hereinafter provided for.

§ 4. Said superintendent shall appoint a deputy, with the approval of the mayor, who shall receive a salary at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars a year, and a clerk who shall receive a like salary. The said deputy and clerk shall hold their positions during the pleasure of the superintendent. The said clerk shall have his office in the rooms assigned to and occupied by the overseer of the poor in the city of Albany. The superintendent of the almshouse shall also have power to employ such assistants as will enable him to execute the duties of his office, whose respective compensation shall be fixed by him at a sum not exceeding in the aggregate six thousand dollars per annum. (As amended by chapter 302 of the Laws of 1885, chapter 91 of the Laws of 1903, and chapter 75 of the Laws of 1907.)

§ 5. He shall also employ, as far as possible and without compensation to them, the paupers confined in the almshouse, especially in the cultivation of the poorhouse farm. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to purchase all supplies for the almshouse in such quantities, at such times and from such persons as VOL. 3-9