control of the administration of any state institution, state asylum, state hospital, state prison or reformatory, with the approval of the governor and state comptroller, may loan to or set aside for the temporary use of the United States government or the government of the state of New York, or of any department of the United States or of the state of New York, or of any relief or preparedness organization, such accommodations or supplies of such institution, and may utilize such of the labor of the inmates or employees of such institution, as is practicable, to meet the temporary emergency. (Added by chapter 596 of the Laws of 1917.)

§ 43. State contracts not to be assigned without consent; penalties if done. A clause shall be inserted in all specifications or contracts hereafter made or awarded by the state, or any public department or official thereof, prohibiting any contractor, to whom any contract shall be let, granted or awarded, as required by law, from assigning, transferring, conveying, subletting or otherwise disposing of the same, or of his right, title or interest therein, or his power to execute such contract to any other person, company or corporation, without the previous consent in writing of the department or official awarding the same.

If any contractor, to whom any contract is hereafter let, granted or awarded, as required by law, by the state, or by any public department or official thereof, shall, without the previous written consent specified in the first paragraph of this section, assign, transfer, convey, sublet or otherwise dispose of the same, or his right, title or interest therein, or his power to execute such contract, to any other person, company or other corporation, the state, public department or official, as the case may be, which let, made, granted or awarded said contract, shall revoke and annul such contract, and the state, public department or officer, as the case may be, shall be relieved and discharged from any and all liability and obligations growing out of said contract to such contractor, and to the person, company, or corporation to whom he shall assign, transfer, convey, sublet or otherwise dispose of the same, and said contractor, and his assignee, transferee, or sublessee, shall forfeit and lose all moneys, theretofore earned under said contract except so much as may be required to pay his emFloyees; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to hinder, prevent or affect an assignment by such contractor for

the benefit of his creditors, made pursuant to the statutes of this

§ 47. Annual reports to legislature by institutions entitled to receive money from state. All institutions and societies entitled by law to receive money from the state shall make an annual report to the legislature on or before the fifteenth day of January in each year, and no such money shall be paid in any such case until such report is made.

§ 48. Statement of desired appropriations to be filed with comptroller. On or before November fifteenth in each year there shall be filed with the comptroller by each state officer, head of department, or proper officer of each state hospital, asylum, charitable or reformatory institution, the state commission in lunacy, the state board of charities, the state department of health, the forest, fish and game commission, and all other state commissions, commissioners and boards, now existing or hereafter constituted, a statement in detail of all moneys, together with the reasons therefor, for which any general or special appropriation is desired at the ensuing session of the legislature by such state officer, department, commission, commissioners and boards. The comptroller may also, from time to time, and in his discretion, require any such state officers, departments, commissions, commissioners or boards to report to him as to such other fiscal affairs as the comptroller shall deem necessary for the proper compilation of the tabulation provided for by section forty-nine of this chapter. The comptroller shall also receive and file in his office a statement of any desired appropriation for any purpose which may be presented to him on or before November fifteenth in each year by any individual, corporation or association, including municipal corporations intending to present the same at the ensuing session of the legislature. Each of the reports and statements of desired appropriations thus made shall be in a form to be prescribed by the comptroller. The reports and statements of desired appropriations herein before provided for shall be public records. (Added by chapter 149 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 49. Duty of comptroller as to tabulation of statements. On or before December fifteenth in each year the comp

troller shall make a tabulation of such statements and reports, provided for by section forty-eight of this chapter, in printed form, accompanied by comparative data and estimates of income, together with such comments and a statement of such other matters as he shall deem necessary and proper for the full comprehension of such tabulation, and shall transmit such tabulation to the governor immediately and to the legislature on the first day of its next session. Such tabulation so transmitted shall also contain a statement of all moneys required by the comptroller, together with the reasons therefor, for which any general or special appropriation is desired by him at the ensuing session of the legislature, together with such comparative and other data as the comptroller shall deem necessary and proper for the full comprehension of such last mentioned statement. (Added by chapter 149 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 50. Separate specifications for contract work for the state. Every officer, board, department, commission or commissions charged with the duty of preparing specifications or awarding or entering into contracts for the erection, construction or alteration of buildings for the state, when the entire cost of such work shall exceed one thousand dollars, must have prepared separate specifications for each of the following branches of work to be performed:

1. Plumbing and gas fitting.

2. Steam heating, hot water and ventilating apparatus.

Such specifications must be so drawn as to permit separate and independent bidding upon each of such classes of work enumerated in the above subdivisions. All contracts hereafter awarded by the state, or a department, board, commission, commissioner or officer thereof, for the erection, construction or alteration of buildings or any part thereof, shall award the respective work specified in the above subdivisions separately to responsible and reliable persons, firms or corporations. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the authorities in charge of any state building from performing any such branches of work by or through their regular employees, or in the case of public institutions, by the inmates thereof.

(Added by chapter 514 of the Laws of 1912.)

State Industrial Farm Colony

AN ACT in relation to a farm and industrial colony for tramps and vagrants.

Chapter 812, Laws of 1911

Section 1. Establishment and purpose. A state industrial farm colony is hereby established for the detention, humane discipline, instruction and reformation of male adults committed thereto as tramps or vagrants.

§ 2. Board of managers; appointments; powers and duties. The said colony shall be under the control and management of a board of seven managers to be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate, in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-one of the state charities law. Such managers shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to their actual and necessary traveling expenses in the performances of their official duties. The governor shall have power to remove any member or members of the said board of managers for cause after an opportunity to be heard. The said board's control of the said colony shall include among other things: a. The election of the officers of the said board.

b. The appointment of a superintendent and such other employees as the said board shall deem proper.

c. The establishment and alteration of rules and regulations for the management of the said colony, including the classification, parole, discharge and retaking of inmates, and a system of compensation and credits, by marks or otherwise.

§ 3. The said board of managers shall ascertain whether any lands now owned by the state are suitable for use as a site for the said farm and industrial colony and available therefor. If the said board of managers shall find that any lands now owned by the state are suitable and available for such purpose, the state authorities having charge and control of such lands are hereby authorized, with the approval of the governor, to transfer said lands to the board of managers hereby established, and the said board shall thereupon cause such lands to be made ready for use

as a site for such farm and industrial colony. In case no lands now owned by the state are found to be suitable for said farm and industrial colony, the board of managers hereby established shall, with the approval of the governor, select a site therefor of not less than five hundred acres, and may enter into options in behalf of the state for the purchase of such lands at a price not to exceed sixty thousand dollars, and shall make full report thereon to the legislature on or before March first, nineteen hundred and twelve. The said board shall cause to be made by the state engineer and surveyor a map or maps of the lands selected, which shall be certified by a majority of them, and filed in the office of the secretary of state and duplicates thereof in the office of the clerk of the county wherein such lands are located. It shall be the duty of the said board to prepare such site as may be acquired for the use by the said colony, to provide a water supply and a system of drainage therefor, to determine what buildings are necessary to be erected thereon for the proper housing and educational and industrial training of not less than five hundred inmates and to act as a board of managers in the erection of said buildings and in the expenditure of the moneys herein or hereafter appropriated for the purchase and improvement of the said site. In all the work of construction and improvement, the labor of inmates of the said colony shall be employed wherever and so far as practicable.

§ 4. Commitment; term of detention. When the said colony shall be ready to receive any inmates, the said board shall notify the several county clerks of all the counties of the state of that fact. It shall be the duty of the said county clerks immediately on receipt of the said official notification to transmit a copy thereof to each and all of the several courts in their respective counties and to each and all of the several justices of the supreme court and other judges, justices and magistrates, residing or sitting in their respective counties. Thereafter any such court or magistrate may commit to the said colony to be there detained under the provisions of this act any male over the age of twentyone who shall be adjudged by such court or magistrate to be a vagrant or tramp; but no person shall be so committed who shall