NEW YORK. STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES. 1. Commissioners, appointment, residence. 2. Term of office. 3. Oath of office, organization. 4. Powers and duties, facilities to be afforded for inspection. 5. Inspection of asylums, reports. 6. State aid, inquiry into application. 7. Interest in contracts forbidden, officers of asylum not to be commissioners. 8. Records, corporate powers. 9. Duties of officers; vacancies 10. Additional members appointed. 11. Inspection of charitable and correctional institutions. 12. On representation of board, attorney-general to investigate. 13. Officers of asylum to furnish information. 14. Statistics and recommendations to be reported. 15. County visitors, penalties for exclusion of. 32. By-laws and regulations. 33. Superintendent, powers and duties, how performed when absent. 34. Exemption from militia, road and jury service. 35. Records of board of managers. 36. Inspection by managers, reports. 37. Resident officers to admit manager and exhibit records. 38. Treasurer, powers and duties. 39. May recover for support of insane. 40. May institute actions for recovery of moneys. 41. Steward, duties. 42. Notice of completion of asylum, circular to be published. 43. Records of admission to be kept. 44. No patient received for less term than six months. 45. Recent cases admitted special agreement. under 46. Admitted patients to be supplied with clothing. 47. Discharge of patients, security; criminals excepted; selection for discharge. 48. Discharge of criminal insane. Discharged patients supplied with clothing and money. 49. 50. Managers to receive no compen sation. 52. Purchases to be for cash, vouchers. 53. Indigent patients, charges for. 54. Support of insane, liability for. 55. Support charged to county, reimbursement. 56. Transfer to asylum, expenses. 57. Support, remedies of towns and counties. 58. Supreme court, powers of, not abridged. 59. Definition of terms. WILLARD ASYLUM. 60. Establishment, board of trustees, appointment, term of office. 61. Trustees, powers and duties. 62. Superintendent and other officers, appointment, salaries. 63. Officers, powers and duties. 64. Admitted patients supplied with clothing. 65. Support, charged to county. 66. Support, remedies of counties. 67. Trustees to receive no compensation. 68. Purchases, vouchers to be taken. 69. Chronic insane paupers sent to Willard asylum. 70. Chronic insane, when cared for within county. 71. Discharge, by trustees. HUDSON RIVER STATE HOSPITAL. 72. Establishment, board of managers. 73. Powers and duties, like those of trustees of Utica asylum. 74. Superintendent and other officers. 75. Salaries, limit of. 76. Notice of completion, transfer of insane from Utica asylum. 77. Hudson river hospital district. 78. Interest in contracts forbidden. 79. Managers, reports. 80. Plans for asylum. BUFFALO STATE ASYLUM. 81. Establishment, board of managers. 82. Vacancies how filled. 83. Managers, powers and duties like those of trustees of Utica asylum. 84. Superintendent and other officers, appointment, residence. 85. Salaries of officers, limit of. 86. Plans and specifications. 87. Interest in contracts forbidden. 88. Managers, reports. 89. Capacity of asylum. HOMEOPATHIC ASYLUM AT MIDDLE TOWN. 90. Establishment, board of trustees, appointment, qualifications, homopathic treatment. 91. Vacancies how filled. 92. Interest in purchases forbidden. 97. Superintendent and other officers; 98. Charges for care and treatment. 99. Accounts submitted to comptroller. 100. Treasurer, bond of. STATE ASYLUM FOR INSANE CRIMINALS 101. Title of asylum. 102. Superintendent, appointment. 103. Residence, salary. 104. Powers and duties. 105. Other officers, compensation. 106. Insane female convicts at Sing Sing, transferred to asylum. 107. Superintendent, bond. 108. Monthly estimate of expenses. 109. Rules and regulations, powers of inspectors of prison. 110. Insane convicts, examination and transfer. 111. Disposition of convicts on expiration of sentence. 112. Retention of convicts on expiration of sentence, 113. Insane convicts on recovery remanded to prison. 114. Certificate of conviction when filed. 115. Physician, expenses of to be paid. 116. Support of patient, recovery of. BINGHAMTON ASYLUM FOR CHRONIC INSANE. 117. Establishment, board of trustees, appointment, vacancies. 118. Additional trustees appointed. 119. Transfer of property to trustees. 120. Organization of board. 121. Inventory of transferred property. 122. Alteration and repair of building; interest in contracts forbidden. 123. Appropriation for repairs, reports. 124. Trustees, powers and duties. 125. Superintendent and other officers, appointment. 126. Salaries of officers. 127. Oath of office. 128. By-laws and regulations. 129. Superintendent, powers and duties. 130. Treasurer, powers and duties, quarterly statements. 131. Steward, powers and duties. 132. Exemption of officers from militia, road and jury service. 133. Records of trustees. 134. Inspection by trustees, reports. 135. Trustees to receive no compensa tion. 136. Purchases to be for cash, vouchers. 137. Chronic insane, removal from counties, support of. 138. Discharge of patients; annual inspection of asylums. 139. Removal from asylum, expenses. 140. Support, charged to counties. 141. Expenses finally paid by county. 142. Admitted patients supplied with clothing. 143. Support, limit of charges. 144. Supreme court, powers of not abridged. ten days. 159. Death or discharge to be reported. 163. State charities aid association may 166. Insane soldiers and sailors from militia and jury service. ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE. 170. Regulations for admission, physi- 172. Physician of asylum, not to certify. warrant of commitment. 176. Temporary confinement. nor confined with criminals. 178. Dangerous insane committed to 179. Illegal confinement, penalties. 193. Non-accountability to law. 195. When indicted for felony, com- charge investigation, commit- 206. Fact of insanity to be stated in 208. On recovery, notice to state com- 217. Insane after sentence of death. 219. Stay of execution, during insanity. R. S. of N. Y., 1882, Banks & Bros., p. 1883. Laws 1867, ch. 951, §1. Number of Ibid § 2. Terms of office. STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES. 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint eight persons, one residing in each judicial district of the state, to be called and known as the commiss'n'rs. board of state commissioners of public charities. 2. One of the persons so appointed shall hold his office for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, one for five years, one for six years, one for seven years and one for eight years, as indicated by the governor on making the nominations; and all appointments thereafter, except to fill vacancies, shall be made for eight years. 3. Before entering upon their duties, the said commissioners shall respectively take and subscribe to the constituOath of office. tional oath required of other state officers, which shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, who is hereby authorized and directed to administer such oath. The said commissioners shall have power to elect a president out of its own number, and such other officers and agents as it may deem proper, and to adopt such by-laws and regulations for the transaction of its business and the management of its affairs as it may consider expedient. Ibid § 3. Ibid § 4. duties. 4. The said commissioners shall have full power at all times to look into and examine the condition of the several institutions which they may be authorized by this act to visit, financially or otherwise; to inquire and examine into their methods of instruction, and the government and management of their inmates; the official conduct of trustees, directors and other officers and employes of the same; the condition of the buildings, grounds and other property connected therewith, and into all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management; and for these purposes they shall have free access to the grounds, buildings and all books and papers relating to said institutions; and all persons now or hereafter in any manner connected with the same are hereby directed and required to give such information, and afford such facilities for inspection, as the said commissioners may require; and any neglect or refusal, on the part of any officer or person connected with such institution, to comply with the requirements of this section, shall subject the offender to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be sued for and collected by the said commissioners, in their name of office. Charitable visitation of ers; its 5. The said commissioners, or some one of them, are hereby authorized and required, at least once in each year, mid $5, and as much oftener as they may deem necessary, institutions; to visit all the charitable and correctional institu- commissiontions of the state, excepting prisons, receiving state objects. aid, and ascertain whether the moneys appropriated for their aid are or have been economically and judiciously expended; whether the objects of the several institutions are accomplished; whether the laws in relation to them are fully complied with; whether all parts of the state are equally benefited by said institutions, and the various other matters referred to in the fourth section of this act; and report in writing to the legislature, at the opening of each annual session of the same, the result of their investigations, together with such other information and recommendations as they may deem proper. State aid, 6. Whenever any charitable or correctional institutions, subject to the inspection herein provided for, require Ibid $7. state aid for any purpose other than their usual ex- inquiry into. penses, the said commissioners, or some or one of them, shall inquire carefully and fully into the ground of such want, the purpose or purposes for which it is proposed to use the same, the amount which will be required to accomplish the desired object, and into any other matters connected therewith; and in the annual report of each year they shall give the result of such inquiries, together with their own opinions and conclusions relating to the whole subject. Ibid § 14. contracts. 7. No member of the board of said commissioners shall be, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract for building, repairing or furnishing any of the institu- interested in tions which by this act they are authorized to visit and inspect, nor shall any trustee or other officers of any of the institutions embraced in this act be eligible to the office of commissioner hereby created. 8. The commissioners now in office, appointed pursuant to the act entitled "An act to provide for the appoint- R. S., p. 1885, ment of a board of commissioners of public charities and defining their duties and powers," passed May board of chartwenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and 571, § 1. The state ities. |