2. On or before the first day of November in each year the board of trustees of such hospital shall make to the board of supervisors of the county of Dutchess a report containing the number of patients admitted to and discharged from such hospital during the preceding year, who were residents of such county, the town in the county from which they were admitted, the cost of their maintenance and the number of patients still remaining in the hospital, the charge for whose care and maintenance shall become a charge upon the county of Dutchess.

3. The cost of maintenance of each indigent patient residing without the city of Poughkeepsie and within the county of Dutchess shall be assessed against the town of which such patient is a resident, and such board of supervisors shall receive and audit such bill in the same manner as other county bills are audited and include the amount of such bill so audited in the next annual tax levy for the county of Dutchess and the treasurer of such county shall on or before the first day of March in the ensuing year, pay to the board of trustees of such hospital the amount of such bill.

(As amended by chapter 426 of the Laws of 1914.)

Rensselaer County Hospital, Troy.

AN ACT to permit persons, other than those committed as indigent poor persons, to become patients in the new hospital building, about to be built and maintained by the county of Rensselaer in conjunction with its house of industry, and regulating the admission of such persons as patients to such institution.

Chapter 197, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. Any person, who has been an actual resident and inhabitant of either the cities or the several towns within the county of Rensselaer for one year or more prior to the making of the application hereinafter provided to be made in order to receive the benefits for which this act is designed, and who suffers from tuberculosis, in either its incipient or advanced form, may become a pay patient in the new hospital building to be built and main

tained by the county of Rensselaer in conjunction with its House of Industry, by whatsoever name such hospital building may be known, by filing with the acting superintendent of the poor of the county a written application, upon a form furnished by him for such purpose; and, provided, it shall satisfactorily appear to such acting superintendent of the poor by a written certificate of the physician in charge of the House of Industry that such applicant is suffering from tuberculosis and that the applicant comes within the provisions of this act, and that his or her admission to such institution as a pay patient at that time will not inconvenience or exclude therefrom any indigent poor person then a patient, or likely to become a patient therein, such acting superintendent of the poor may admit, as hereinafter provided, such applicant to said hospital for care and treatment for tuberculosis. No pay patient shall be accepted, or if accepted, be retained in such hospital to the exclusion of any indigent poor person committed as a public charge and who may at such time be in need of treatment therein.

§ 2. Before such person be admitted as a patient for treatment in such hospital, he or she, or some person in his or her behalf, shall contract with the acting superintendent of the poor as to the amount to be paid for the care, support and maintenance of such patient and such acting superintendent of the poor shall fix the charge therefor, having in mind the ability of the patient to pay and the probable cost to the county for his or her care and

treatment.

§ 3. The charge in the first instance for the care and treatment of any person admitted to such hospital as a pay patient, under the provisions of this act, shall be against the city or the town which would be liable for the care, maintenance and support of such person as an indigent poor person, and the money agreed to be paid for his or her care and support therein shall be paid to the acting superintendent of the poor, who shall monthly pay over such money so received by him to the county treasurer of the county, to be by said county treasurer credited to the city or town against which said patient is a charge.

§ 4. Annually the acting superintendent of the poor shall report to the board of supervisors of the county the name and ad

dress of each patient cared for and maintained in such hospital as a pay patient, and the amount of money received from such patient, together with the probable cost of his or her care and maintenance.

§ 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, so far as the same relate to the county of Rensselaer, are hereby repealed.

St. James Mercy Hospital, Hornell.

AN ACT to revise the charter of the city of Hornellsville and to change the name thereof.

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Chapter 288, Laws of 1906.

And the common council shall determine the amount, if any, to be raised by tax as aforesaid for the Saint James Mercy Hospital

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§ 98. The common council shall also yearly raise by a general tax and appropriate to the Saint James Mercy Hospital, the sum of one thousand dollars so long as said Saint James Mercy Hospital shall be maintained in the city of Hornell, wherein shall be received, lodged, boarded and given hospital treatment, at all times for one dollar and a half per day, any resident of said city who shall present to the matron of said hospital a duplicate certificate signed by the overseer of the poor of said city and a physician of said city stating that the person named therein is without means of support and in need of medical and surgical treatment. No portion of such money shall be paid to said hospital unless the board of managers of said hospital shall in writ ing report on the first day of each month, to the common council of said city the number of patients received upon such certificates during the preceding month, duplicates of which shall be annexed thereto, and the number of patients who, are at the date of each new report, a charge upon the city, together with their names, ages, sex, the nature of their disease or wounds, the length of time. cared for, and the date of entrance and departure. No charges shall be made for such lodging, board, care, medical, surgical and

hospital treatment for any one patient for a period exceeding sixty days unless authorized by new certificates secured and signed by the overseer of the poor of said city and the attending physician at said hospital, which shall be reported the same as new cases in the monthly report. The common council shall also have the power to raise by tax in each year such sum as may be necessary for the payment of the charges for lodging, boarding and giving hospital treatment, at the rate of one dollar and a half per day to any poor resident of the said city sent to said hospital in the manner and as provided heretofore in this section. (As amended by chapter 363 of the Laws of 1909.)

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St. John's Riverside Hospital, Yonkers; St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers; Yonkers Homeopathic Hospital, Yonkers.

AN ACT to revise the charter of the city of Yonkers.

Chapter 635, Laws of 1895.

TITLE X.

§ 2. The common council may by ordinance prescribe the duties of such commissioner of charities in relation to the temporary aid and assistance to the poor and may appropriate such moneys for such purpose as it shall deem proper and may also appropriate a sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars per annum, for the care of sick and disabled poor in hospitals. (As amended by chapter 207 of the Laws of 1903.)

St. Luke's Home and Hospital of Newburgh,
New York

AN ACT authorizing the commissioners of the almshouse of the city and town of Newburgh, in the county of Orange, to pay to Saint Luke's home and hospital, of Newburgh, New York, the

sum of one thousand dollars per annum, for the care and maintenance of indigent persons.

Chapter 272, Laws of 1897.

Section 1. The commissioners of the almshouse of the city and town of Newburgh, in the county of Orange, are hereby authorized, on or before the first day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to settle with and pay to the board of managers of Saint Luke's home and hospital of Newburgh, New York, out of the excise moneys received by said commissioners from the city and town of Newburgh, not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars for the care and maintenance of such persons as were received and retained in such hospital prior to that date, according to rules established by the state board of charities.

§ 2. The commissioners of the almshouse of the city and town of Newburgh, are hereby authorized and empowered to pay to Saint Luke's home and hospital, a corporation located in the city of Newburgh, in the county of Orange, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of said hospital as may be received and retained therein by order or permit of such almshouse commissioners, pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, annually out of the excise moneys received by such commissioners, the sum of one dollar per day for each of such inmates, but the total amount paid said hospital by said commissioners in any one year, shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, and said hospital shall not, in any one year, be required to admit patients sent thereto by said commissioners after it has cared for persons received therein at their request, to the extent of two thousand days in such year. The board of managers of said hospital shall report annually, in writing, to the commissioners of the almshouse of the city and town of Newburgh, the number of patients received, pursuant to the provisions of this act and the rules of the state board of charities, their names, age, sex, the nature of their disease or wounds, the length of time cared for, with the date of entrance and departure. (As amended by chapter 65 of the Laws of 1902.)