ing and clothing and whatever further may be necessary for their safety, reasonable comfort and well being.

8. Children of school age retained in any such institution as a charge upon any county, city, town or village, shall receive regular and suitable instruction in at least the common school branches of reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, English grammar and geography.

9. The commissioners, officers, inspectors and other representatives of the State Board of Charities shall at all reasonable times be allowed to examine such children with relation to their scholastic training, and also with respect to their fitness for placing in family homes, or with relation to any other matter pertaining to their care, comfort and general welfare, as may be directed by the board by resolution duly adopted and entered on its minutes.

III. REPORTS OF INSTITUTIONS.

1. Annual Reports.

Each and every charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institution, wholly or partly under private control, whether incorporated or not incorporated, subject to the visitation and inspection of the State Board of Charities, pursuant to article VII., section 11 of the Constitution, shall, on or before the first day of November in each and every year, prepare and file with the Board, at its office in the Capitol at Albany, a report of the condition of the institution and its operations, for the preceding fiscal year ending September 30th, upon forms prescribed and furnished for the purpose, to wit:

First. The estimated value of the real and personal property of the institution and its assets and liabilities October 1st.

Second. The total amount and sources of the receipts of the institution and its total and classified expenditures for the fiscal year ending September 30th.

Third. The whole number of persons supported in the institution, and the changes in the population during the fiscal year ending September 30th, and the number and sex of those in its custody and care October 1st, with such other particulars as may, from time to time, be required by the Board.

2. Reports of Institutions Having the Custody, Care and Training of Orphan, Destitute, Delinquent and Defective Children.

Every charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory institution, wholly or partly under private control, having the custody, treatment, care and training of orphan, destitute, delinquent or defective children, excepting deaf and blind pupils, shall, on or before the 10th day of October, 1895, file with the Board, at its office in the Capitol at Albany, the name and sex of each and every child, inmate of such institution January 1, 1895, and the name and sex of each and every child who may have been received in such institution from January 1 to September 30, 1895, inclusive, on a separate blank to be prescribed and furnished by the Board for the purpose, including the following particulars in respect to each, viz.: Date of reception; age; color; birthplace; whether orphan, half-orphan, or both parents living; physical and mental condition; birthplace of parents; authority under which received; county, city, village or town upon which a charge; amount received from parent, relative or guardian, or other private source, or whether supported wholly by the institution; per capita amount received from public sources; authority under which payments are made; and, in the case of delinquents, the offense or crime for which committed; and, each and every such institution shall, on or before November 10, 1895, and on or before the tenth of each month thereafter, file at the office of the Board, as aforesaid, the name and sex of each and every child, with the particulars above enumerated, in relation thereto, who may have been received in such institution during the preceding month; and such institution shall give prompt notice to the Board, upon blanks furnished therefor, of any and all discharges, removals, escapes, transfers or deaths occurring in the institution during the month.

IV. ACCOUNTS OF INSTITUTIONS.

Each and every charitable, eleemosynary, reformatory and correctional institution, wholly or partly under private control, shall keep proper books of account which shall set forth all receipts and expenditures with the vouchers therefor, and be open for the inspection of the State Board of Charities, its commissioners, officers, inspectors and agents.

RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY THOSE SUBMITTING PLANS FOR BUILDINGS AND ADDITIONS THERETO.

1. All plans for the building of almshouses or other institutions, or of structures connected therewith or additions thereto or of modifications of such buildings or structures, requiring the Board's approval, must be submitted to the Board with the specifications relating thereto, both in duplicate before being referred to the Committee on Construction of Buildings.

2. Such plans and specifications must in every case be accompanied by a statement specifying the building or buildings to be erected in accordance therewith, the location or locations of such building or buildings and the work otherwise covered by the plans and specifications, naming the amount or amounts appropriated for such construction, certifying that said plans and specifications have been officially approved by the responsible authorities presenting them for the Board's approval, together with a specific request for such approval by the Board.

3. One of such plans, and one of a duplicate modification of such plans, if such shall be made and approved, shall be filed among the archives of the Board.

4. No changes or modifications shall be permitted in such plans without the approval of the Board and the filing of such modified plans in the archives of the Board.

5. The Board may at any time appoint an inspector to examine the work of construction to see that the plans as approved by the Board are adhered to.

RULES OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES FOR GRANTING A LICENSE TO INSTITUTIONS DEVOTED TO THE SOLE PURPOSE OF KEEPING AND CARING FOR AGED, DECREPIT AND FEEBLE-MINDED PERSONS, WHO ARE NOT PROPER SUBJECTS FOR CARE AND TREATMENT IN A HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, KNOWN AS CHAPTER 914 OF THE LAWS OF 1896, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE OF AGED, DECREPIT AND MENTALLY ENFEEBLED PERSONS WHO ARE NOT INSANE."

Rule 1. Every applicant for a license shall file in the office of this Board accurately-drawn plans of every part of the building or buildings to be employed for a home, retreat or asylum, together with the following verified statements in writing:

A. A succinct description of the building or buildings and of the location and surroundings of the institution and of the conditions or accommodations provided for the safe and humane. maintenance of the patients.

B. The number and names of the officers, attendants and employes, with a statement of their respective duties and their individual qualifications, morally, physically and by education or experience, for their several positions.

C. The financial resources of the institution, aside from its income derived from patients, and the scale of weekly charges for patients.

Rule 2. No license shall be granted until the Commissioner of the district, or, in case of his absence, of an adjoining district, has personally inspected the grounds, buildings and appurte nances of the proposed institution, and reported in writing that in his opinion, it possesses the necessary equipment in officers and attendants, together with suitable domestic accommodations in all other respects for the safe and humane maintenance of such patients, and the number which can be properly provided for at any one time.

RULES OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES GOVERNING THE MANAGEMENT OF HOMES, RETREATS AND ASYLUMS FOR THE CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF AGED, DECREPIT AND MENTALLY ENFEEBLED PERSONS WHO ARE NOT INSANE.

1. Such institution shall be devoted to the sole purpose of keeping and caring for such persons.

2. The Superintendent thereof shall transmit to the office of this Board, within three days after the reception of a patient, a certified copy of the application of said patient, or his or her relative, friend or guardian, as the case may be, together with copies of the affidavits of the physicians supporting said appli cation.

3. Whenever any patient by him or his friends or legal guardians shall make application to the State Board of Charities to be discharged from such home, retreat or asylum, the Superintendent thereof shall forthwith forward such application to the

office of this Board, together with such recommendations in regard to the further care of the patient as he may deem useful and necessary.

4. Said institution shall have, in regular attendance upon its patients, a reputable physician, resident of the vicinity, duly quali fied by law to practice his profession in this State, and whose appointment is approved by the State Board of Charities.

5. No form of injury to the person, or deprivation of the necessaries of life shall be allowed in such institution for the purpose of punishment or discipline.

6. All the provisions of the laws of the State relative to the sanitary care of public institutions and the preservation and promotion of the health of the inmates shall be rigidly complied with.

7. Said institution shall make to this Board the quarterly reports required of hospitals and the annual reports required of all charitable institutions.

8. The forms of application for the admission of all patients to such institutions shall be such as are prescribed by the State Board of Charities.

9. Whenever any patient in such institution shall become so violent in conduct as to become uncontrollable without the aid of mechanical restraint or permanent seclusion, it shall be the duty of the Superintendent thereof to notify forthwith the State Board of Charities of the condition of such patient by means of a certifi cate signed by him and the resident physician, and pending the action of said Board upon such notice, it shall not be lawful to discharge or transfer said patient to any other custody.

RULES AND REGULATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHICH DISPENSARIES SHALL FURNISH MEDICAL OR SURGICAL RELIEF, ADVICE OR TREATMENT, MEDICINE OR APPARATUS; ADOPTED OCTOBER 11, 1899, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 368, LAWS OF 1899, AS AMENDED OCTOBER 10, 1900.

I. POSTING A PUBLIC NOTICE.

There shall be posted and permanently maintained in a conspicuous place in the reception room for applicants a notice as follows: