charge from prison. The costs necessarily incurred in determining the question of insanity, including the fees of the medical examiners, shall be a charge upon the state or the municipality at whose expense the institution from which the transfer is made or sought to be made is maintained. (As amended by chapter 525 of the Laws of 1904.) § 98. Disposal of insane convicts after expiration of term of imprisonment. Whenever any convict in the Matteawan State Hospital, under and by virtue of this act, shall continue to be insane at the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced, he may be retained therein until he has recovered or is otherwise legally discharged. The medical superintendent of such hospital may discharge and deliver any patient whose sentence has expired, 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 discretion 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 ten dollars in money, suitable clothing and a railroad ticket to the county of his conviction or to such other place as he may designate at no greater distance. Similar allowances shall be made to patients committed by order of a court and who may be discharged. 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 hospital as an insane person, shall have recovered before the expiration 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 direet; 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 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, reformatory 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 hereinbefore 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. Transfers from state hospitals to Matteawan state hospital. The commission may, by order in writing, transfer to the Matteawan state hospital, any insane inmate of a state hospital committed thereto upon the order of a court of criminal jurisdiction or of a judge or justice of such a court; or any patient who has previously been sentenced to a term of imprisonment in any penal institution, and who still manifests criminal tendencies or any such patient who has previously been an inmate of the Matteawan state hospital. From and after October first, nineteen hundred and four, all persons then inmates of the Matteawan state hospital, and all persons thereafter committed to its custody, shall be a charge upon the state. (As amended by chapter 260 of the Laws of 1899; chapter 380 of the Laws of 1900, and chapr525 of the Laws of 1904.). § 102. Authority to recover for the support of patients. The medical superintendent of the hospital is hereby authorized to recover for the support 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 patients.- No person not authorized by law or by written permission from the superintendent of state prisons shall visit the Matteawan State hospital, or communicate 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 schedule 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. PAYMENTS OF PUBLIC MONEYS TO PRIVATE INSTITU TIONS. AN ACT to authorize payments by counties, cities, towns and villages to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions wholly or partly under private control, for care, support and maintenance. Chapter 754, Laws of 1895. Section 1. Boards of estimate and apportionment, common councils, boards of aldermen, boards of supervisors, town boards, boards of trustees of villages, and all other boards or officers of counties, cities, towns and villages, authorized to appropriate and raise money by taxation and make payments therefrom, are hereby authorized in their discretion to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments from said moneys, and from any moneys received from any other source and properly applicable thereto, to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions wholly or partly under private control, for the care, support and maintenance of their inmates, of the moneys which are or may be appropriated therefor; such payments to be made only for such inmates as are received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities; except that boards of trustees of villages and town |