An Act making Appropriations in Aid of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind, at Flint. [Approved February 12, 1857. Took effect May 19, 1857. Laws of 1857, p. 216.] SECTION 1. (0) SEC. 2. (p) SEC. 3. (9) SEC. 4. (r) Sec. 5. (s) furnished to In for Deaf. Dumb, tain cases. (1548.) SEC. 6. In cases where persons, residents of this Clothing to be State, who are deaf and dumb, or blind, but who, on account mates of Asylum of their poverty, are unable to furnish themselves with and Blind in cersuitable clothing, and other necessary expenses for attending school at the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, the Board of Trustees shall have discretionary power to render them such assistance, not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) for each person, and for that purpose may issue a certificate directed to the Auditor General, that such amount is necessary for the benefit of such individual, who shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer therefor, and any such sums are hereby appropriated, and shall be paid out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated; and the Auditor General shall charge all such moneys so drawn. to the county of which such person is a resident, or to which he or she belongs, to be collected and returned to the general fund as any State taxes are required to be by law. (1549.) SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts contravening the Repeal of contraprovisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. vening Acts. (0) Appropriates $37,500 for 1857, and the same amount for 1858. (p) Provides for expenditure of appropriation for building purposes, and for sustaining the Institution. (9) Directs the appointment of one of the Trustees as Building Commissioner, with salary of $800. (r) Trustees directed to deposit contracts for building with the Auditor General, and make report to the Legislature as to their expenditures. (s) Auditor General directed to cause to be raised $15,000 for 1857, and the same amount for 1858, with the other State taxes. For similar provisions appropriating $50,000 for building purposes for the Asylum for the Insane, see Laws of 1857, p. 265. OF TITLE XV. THE INTERNAL POLICE OF THE STATE. CHAPTER XLII. Of Disorderly Persons. CHAPTER XLIII. Of the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children. CHAPTER XLIV. Of the Observance of the First Day of the Week, and the Prevention and Punishment of Immorality. CHAPTER XLV. Of the Law of the Road, and the Regulation of Public Carriages. CHAPTER XLVII. Of Lost Goods, and Stray Beasts. CHAPTER XLVIII. Of the Disposition of Unclaimed Property in Certain Cases. CHAPTER XLXIX. Of Fire Departments in Cities and Villages. CHAPTER L. Of Certain Municipal Regulations of Police. CHAPTER LI. Of the Destruction of Wolves, and other Noxious Animals. CHAPTER LII. Of the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Drinks as a Beverage. Chapter Thirty-Nine of Revised Statutes of 1846. N. Y. Rev. Stat., Title 5, Chap. 20, Part 1. deemed Disorder (1550.) SECTION 1. All persons who threaten to run away and What Persons leave their wives and children a burden on the public; all. persons pretending to tell fortunes, or where lost or stolen goods. may be found; all common prostitutes and all keepers of bawdy houses, or houses for the resort of prostitutes; all drunkards, tiplers, gamesters, or other disorderly persons; all persons who have no visible calling or business to maintain themselves by, but who do for the most part support themselves by gaming; all jugglers, common showmen, and mountebanks, who exhibit or perform for profit any puppet show, wire or rope dancing, or other idle shows, arts or feats; all persons who keep in any public highway, or in any public place, any gaming table, wheel of fortune, box, machine, instrument or device for the purpose of gaming; all persons who go about with such table, wheel or other machine, instrument or device, exhibiting tricks or gaming therewith; all persons who play in the public streets or highways, with cards, dice, or any instrument or device for gaming, shall be deemed disorderly persons. offenders, and se behavior. (1551.) SEC. 2. Upon complaint made on oath to any Justice Apprehension of of the Peace against any person as being disorderly, he shall curity for good issue his warrant for the apprehension of the offender, and cause him to be brought before such Justice for examination; and if it shall appear by the confession of the offender, or by competent testimony, that he is a disorderly person, the Justice may require of the offender a recognizance, with sufficient sureties, for his good behavior for the term of one year thereafter. conviction to be der committed. (1552.) SEC. 3. In default of such sureties being found, the when record of Justice shall make up, sign and file in the County Clerk's made, and offenoffice, a record of conviction of such offender, as a disorderly person, specifying generally the nature and circumstances of the offence, and shall, by warrant under his hand, commit such offender to the common jail of the county, there to remain until such sureties be found, or such offender be discharged according to law. breach of recog (1553.) SEC. 4. The committing of any of the acts which con- What deemed a stitute the person so bound a disorderly person, shall be nizance. deemed a breach of the condition of such recognizance. (1554.) SEc. 5. Upon a recovery being had upon any such rities may be re When new seen recognizance, the Court before which such recovery shall be quired or offen had may, in its discretion, either require new sureties for good behavior to be given, or may commit the offender to the common jail of the county, for any time not exceeding six months. der committed. How person committed may be discharged. Jailer to lay be fore County sons in custody. (1555.) SEc. 6. Any person committed to the common jail for not finding sureties for good behavior, may be discharged by any two Justices of the Peace of the county, upon giving such sureties for good behavior as were originally required. from such offender. (1556.) SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the keeper of every jail Judge list of per- to lay before the County Judge of his county, on the first day of every term, a list of all the persons committed to jail as disorderly persons, and then in his custody, with the nature of their offences, the name of the Justice committing them, and the time of their imprisonment. (a) Judge to examine record of conviction. in relation to dis (1557.) SEC. 8. The said County Judge before which such list shall be laid, shall inquire into the circumstances of each case, and hear any proofs that may be offered, and shall examine the record of conviction, which shall be deemed presumptive evidence of the facts therein contained, until disproved. (a) Powers of Judge (1558.) SEC. 9. The County Judge may discharge such orderly persons. disorderly person from confinement, either absolutely or upon receiving sureties for his good behavior, in his discretion; or the said County Judge may, in his discretion, authorize the Superintendents of the Poor of the county to bind out such disorderly persons as shall be minors in some lawful calling, as servants or apprentices, or otherwise, until they shall be of full age, respectively, or to contract for the services of such disorderly persons as shall be of full age, with any person, as laborers or servants, for any time not exceeding one year, which binding out and contracts shall be as valid and effectual as the indenture of any apprentice with his own consent and the consent of his parents, and shall subject the persons so bound out or contracted for, to the same control of their masters, respectively, and of such County Judge, as if they were bound as apprentices. (a) (1559.) SEC. 10. Such Court may, in its discretion, order (a) As Amended by Act 275 of 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 323. Although the office of County Judge was abolished by the Constitution of 1850, these sections have not since been changed by any express enactment. any such disorderly person to be kept in the common jail for Court may order any time not exceeding six months, at hard labor. disorderly person kept at labor. When Court may order keeper to ment, etc. (1560.) SEC. 11. If there be no means provided in such jail for employing offenders at hard labor, such Court may direct furnish employthe keeper thereof to furnish such employment as it shall specify, to such disorderly person as may be committed. thereto, either by a Justice, or any Court, and for that purpose to purchase any necessary raw materials and implements, not exceeding such amount as the Court shall prescribe, and to compel such persons to perform such work as shall be allotted to them. paid. (1561.) SEC. 12. The expenses incurred in pursuance of such Expenses, how order, shall be paid to the keeper by the County Treasurer, on the production of a certified copy of the order of the Court, and an account of the materials furnished, verified by his oath. produce of labor, (1562.) SEC. 13. The keeper shall sell the produce of such Keeper to sell labor, and shall account for the first cost of the materials etc. furnished, and for one half of the surplus to the Board of Supervisors, and pay the same into the County Treasury; and the other half of the surplus shall be paid to the person earning the same, on his discharge from imprisonment; and such keeper shall also account to the Court, whenever required, for all materials purchased, and for the disposition of the proceeds of the earnings of such offenders. |