pired, and who is still insane, but who, in the opinion of the superintendent is reasonably safe to be at large, to his relatives or friends who are able and willing to comfortably maintain him, without further public charge; and such patient may, in the dis cretion of the medical superintendent, be provided with the whole or a portion of such allowances as are hereinafter granted to recovered convicts. Whenever any convict, who, by reason of his insanity, shall have been retained beyond the date of the expiration of his sentence shall recover, he may be discharged by the medical superintendent, and such convict shall be entitled to tea dollars in money, suitable clothing and a railroad ticket to the county of his conviction or to such other place as he may desig nate at no greater distance. Similar allowances shall be made to patients committed by order of a court and who may be dis charged. Any convict in the Matteawan State Hospital, whose term of imprisonment has expired by commutation or otherwise, and who is not recovered may, upon an order of the commission in lunacy, be transferred to any institution for the insane.

§ 99. Convicts on recovery to be transferred to prison.Whenever any convict, who shall have been confined in such hos pital as an insane person, shall have recovered before the ex piration of his sentence, and the medical superintendent thereof shall so certify in writing to the agent and warden, or other officer in charge of the institution, from which such convict was received or to which the superintendent of state prisons may direct that he be transferred, such convict shall forthwith be transferred to the institution from which he came by the medical superintendent of the hospital, or, if received from one of the state prisons, to such state prison as the superintendent of state prisons may direct; and the agent and warden or other officer in charge of such institution shall receive such convict into such institution, and shall, in all respects, treat him as when originally sentenced to imprisonment. Any inmate not a convict, held upon an order of a court or judge, in a criminal proceeding, may be discharged therefrom, upon the superintendent's certificate of recovery, made to and approved by such court or judge.

§ 100. Certificate of conviction to be delivered to medical superintendent and copy filed. Whenever any convict shall be transferred to the Matteawan State hospital, the agent and warden or other officer in charge of the prison, penitentiary, reform

atory or other penal institution from which such convict is transferred, shall cause a correct copy of the original certificate of conviction of such convict to be filed in the office of the warden or officer in charge, and shall deliver the original certificate to the medical superintendent of such hospital; and whenever any such convict shall be transferred to any penal institution from such hospital, as herein before provided, the medical superintendent' shall deliver to the agent and warden, or other officer in charge of such institution, such original certificate, which shall be filed in the clerk's office of the same.

§ 101 Transfer from state hospitals to Matteawan State hospitals. The commission in lunacy may, by order in writing, transfer any insane inmate of a state hospital, committed thereto upon the order of a court of criminal jurisdiction, to the Matteawan State hospital, and the county in which the criminal charge arose or conviction or acquittal was had, shall defray all the expenses of such person while at the Matteawan State hospital and the expenses of returning him to such county.

§ 102. Authority to recover for the support of patients.The medical superintendent of the hospital is hereby authorized to recover for the suport of any patient therein, chargeable under the law to other counties or penitentiaries, in an action to be brought, in the name of the people of the state of New York, against the county or penitentiary, for the maintenance of said. patient.

§ 103. Tenure of office.-Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect the tenure of office of any of the present officers of the hospital.

§ 104. Communications with officc.-No person not authorized by law or by written permission from the superintendent of state prisons shall visit the Matteawan State hospital, or com municate with any patient therein without the consent of the medical superintendent; nor without such consent shall any person bring into or convey out of the Matteawan State hospital any letter or writing to or from any patient; nor shall any letter or writing be delivered to a patient, or if written by a patient, be sent from the Matteawan State hospital until the same shall have been examined and read by the medical superintendent or some other officer of the hospital duly authorized by the medical superintendent. But communications addressed by such patient

to the county judge or district attorney of the county from which he was sentenced, shall be forwarded, after examination by such medical superintendent, to their destination.

ARTICLE V.

Laws Repealed; When to Take Effect.

Section 110. Laws repealed.

111. When to take effect.

Section 110. Laws repealed.-Of the laws enumerated in the scheduled hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed.

§ 111. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED.

Revised Statutes, pt. 1, ch. 20, tit. 3.....

All.

AN ACT relating to state charities, constituting chapter twenty. six of the general laws.

BECAME a law May 12, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

CHAPTER XXVI OF THE GENERAL LAWS.

State Charities Law.

Article I. State board of charities. (§§ 1-18.).

II. State charities aid association. (§§ 30-32.)

III. Regulations of finances of state charitable institu tions, reports to and accounts against municipal ities. (SS 40-47.)

Article IV. Syracuse state institution for feeble-minded children. (S$ 60-70.)

V. State custodian asylum for feeble-minded women.

($$ SO-83.)

VI. Rome state custodial asylum. (S$ 90-94.)

VII. The Craig colony for epileptics. (S$ 100-114.)
VIII. Institutions for juvenile delinquents. (S$ 120-130.)
IX. Houses of refuge and reformatories for women.

(SS 140-153.)

X. Thomas asylum for orphan and destitute Indian children. (S$ 160-165.)

XI. Laws repealed; when to take effect. (SS 170-171.)

ARTICLE I.

State Board of Charitics.

Section 1. Short title.

Section

2. Definitions.

3. State board of charities.

4. Officers of the board.

5. Compensation and expenses of commissioners.
6. Meetings and effect of nonattendance.

7. Oce room and supplies.

S. Official seal, certificates and subpoenas.

9. General powers and duties of board.

10. Visitations, inspection and supervision of institu tions.

11. Powers and duties of board on visits and inspections. 12. Investigations of institutions.

13. Orders of board directed to institutions.

14. Correction of evils in administration of institutions. 15. Duties of the attorney-general and district attorney. 16. State, nonresident and alien poor.

17. Reports of state board of charities.

18. Institutions for the deaf and dumb and the blind.

Section 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the state charities law.

2. Definitions. The term state charitable institutions, when used in this chapter, shall include all institutions of a charitable,