eight hundred and forty, and in every second year thereafter, choose by ballot three freeholders and inhabitants of the said town, who with two freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead, to be chosen in like manner by ballot by the freeholders and inhabitants of said town, at their annual town meeting, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and in every second year thereafter, shall be trustees of said fund; and the persons so chosen shall hold their offices for two years, and until others are chosen in their places.

§ 3. The trustees of the said fund and their successors in office shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleaded and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever, by the name of "the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor," and they and their successors in office by the name aforesaid shall be capable in law of taking, holding and managing said fund or any part of the same, as was by the last wills and testaments of Samuel Jones and Walter R. Jones, deceased, devised and bequeathed to the towns of Oysterbay and North Hempstead, for the purposes aforesaid, by the said testators, and shall also be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying, either by deed or mortgage, any real or personal estate for the use and benefit of said fund, and carrying the intent of the said testators in creating the same into full effect. (As amended by chapter 180 of the Laws of 1879, and chapter 229 of the Laws of 1880.)

§ 4. Each of the said trustees, and their successors, before entering upon the duties of the said trust, shall execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the supervisor of their respective towns, the amount of the said bond and said sureties to be approved by the said supervisors respectively, for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in them as such trustees.

5. Any three or more of said trustees shall constitute a quorum to transact any of the business and concerns of the said trust. If any of the trustees of said fund, appointed by or chosen under this act, shall die, resign, or remove from said towns, the said trustees may appoint a person of like qualifications to fill his place for the residue of his term of office, who shall in like manner as above provided, execute a bond, with sufficient sureties,

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to the supervisor of the town from whence he shall be chosen, for the faithful discharge of his duty as trustee.

§ 6. The said trustees shall make an annual and full report to each of the said towns of Oysterbay and North Hempstead, at the annual town meetings thereof, of the state of the funds and property of said trust, and of the manner in which the same has been managed, and the income thereof applied during the preceding year.

§ 7. The chancellor of this state shall have a supervisory power over said trustees and fund, and may remove any of said trustees for good cause shewn, on petition or bill by any inhabitant of either of said towns.

§ 8. Each of said towns of Oysterbay and North Hempstead, may, by vote at their annual town meetings, fix and allow to said trustees and their successors or any of them, from their respective towns, such salary or compensation for their services as such towns may respectively, think proper, and which said salary or compensation shall be raised and paid as other ordinary expenses of said town.

§ 9. This act shall be deemed a public act.

TOWN OF OSWEGATCHIE, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY. (See chapter 28, Laws of 1882, page 384.)

THE GENERAL CITY LAW.

Chapter 327, Laws of 1900.

ARTICLE IX.

HOSPITALS FOR TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.

Section 140. Establishment of hospitals.

141. Selection of site.

142. Jurisdiction of local board of health.

Section 140. Establishment of hospitals.-A city of the first class shall have power whenever its board of health shall deem it necessary for the promotion of the health of its inhabitants, to establish, equip and maintain, outside of its corporate limits, *See also provisions of section 218a of the Public Health Law, page 560.

and not within the limits of any other city or any village, a hospital or hospitals for the regular treatment of the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis.

§ 141. Selection of site.-Whenever a city of the first class shall desire to exercise the power conferred by this article it shall through its board of health, select such locality outside of its corporate limits, but within the state, and not within the corporate limits of any other city or any village, as it may consider best adapted by reason of climatic and other conditions for the treatment of such disease, and shall make application to the state board of health for the approval of the site so selected. Upon such approval being given the city may acquire title to such lands as its board of health may designate, within the limits of the locality submitted to and approved by the state board of health. The provisions of law relating to the acquiring of private property for public purposes are hereby made applicable as far as may be necessary to the acquiring of title to such lands.

§ 142. Jurisdiction of local board of health.-All hospitals or institutions now or hereafter established or maintained by any city of the first class for the regular or special treatment of persons suffering from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis shall be subject to the approval of the local board of health; special wards or pavilions for the treatment of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in existing hospitals shall be provided with separate nurses, cooking utensils, washing and plumbing facilities.

THE COUNTY LAW.

Chapter 686, Laws of 1892.

ARTICLE II.

BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS.

§ 12. General powers.-The board of supervisors shall:

1. Have the care and custody of the corporate property of the county.

2. Annually audit all accounts and charges against the county, due or to become due, during the ensuing year, and direct the raising of sums necessary to defray them in full.

3. Annually direct the raising of such sums in each town as shall be necessary to pay its town charges.

4. Cause to be assessed, levied and collected, such other assessments and taxes as shall be required of them by any law of the

state.

5. Fix the salaries and compensation of county treasurers, district attorneys and superintendents of the poor of their county, which shall be a county charge, and not be changed during the term of any such officer; and prescribe the mode of appointment, and fix the number, grade and pay of the clerks, assistants and employes in such offices, when not otherwise fixed by law, which shall be a county charge.

6. Borrow money when they deem it necessary, for the erection of county buildings, and for the purchase of sites therefor, on the credit of the county, and for the funding of any debt of the county not represented by bonds, and issue county obligations therefor, and for other lawful county uses and purposes; and authorize a town in their county to borrow money for town uses and purposes on its credit, and issue its obligations therefor, when, and in the manner, authorized by law.

12. Cause an action to be brought upon the undertaking of any county officer, whenever a breach thereof shall occur.

13. Purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire, for the use of the county, necessary real property for courthouses, jails, almshouses, asylums and other county buildings, and for other county uses and purposes; and erect, alter, repair, or construct, any necessary buildings or other improvements thereon for necessary county use, and cause to be levied, collected and paid, all such sums of money as they shall deem necessary therefor; to select such name as they may deem proper and appropriate for the almshouse of such county and thereafter to designate such almshouse by the name so selected; and sell, lease or apply to other county use, the sites and buildings, when a site is changed; and if sold, apply the proceeds to the payment for new sites, buildings and improvements. (As amended by chapter 318

of the Laws of 1906.

24. Form and presentation of accounts against the county.No account shall be audited by a board of supervisors, or by a committee thereof, or by superintendents of the poor, unless it

shall be made out in items and accompanied with an affidavit that the items of such accounts are correct, and that the disbursements and services charged therein have been in fact made or rendered, or are necessary to be made or renderd at that session of the board, and stating that no part of the amount claimed has been paid or satisfied. But any such account so presented and verified may be disallowed in whole or in part, and the board or such superintendents may require any other or further evidence of the truth or propriety thereof. Each such account shall be numbered from one upwards in the order of presentation, and a memorandum of the time of presentation and the name of the claimant, and if assigned, the name of such assignor or assignee shall be entered in the proceedings of the board. such account, after being so presented, shall be withdrawn without the unanimous consent of the board except to be used as evidence in an action or proceeding, and after being so used it shall be forthwith returned.

§ 25. Additional requirements.-Boards of supervisors may make such additional regulations and requirements, not in conflict with law, concerning the keeping and rendering of official accounts and reports of its county and town officers, and the presentation and auditing of bills presented to their board or to the town boards of their county, as they may deem necessary for the efficiency of the service and the protection of the interests of the public.

§ 31. Location of county buildings.-The board of supervisors may, except in the county of Kings, by a majority vote of all the members elected thereto, fix or change the site of any county building, and the location of any county office; but the site or location of no county building or office shall be changed when the change shall exceed one mile, and shall be beyond the boundaries. of the incorporated village or city, where already situated, except upon a petition of at least twenty-five freeholders of the county, describing the buildings or office, the site or location of which is proposed to be changed, and the place at or near which it is proposed to locate such new buildings or office; which petition. shall be published once in each week for six weeks immediately preceding an annual or special meeting of such board, in three news