after severally designated therefor, namely: For the maintenance of the Flagler hospital, one thousand dollars, to be known as the Flagler hospital fund. * * (As amended by * chapter 639 of the Laws of 1894, chapter 182 of the Laws of 1905, chapter 557 of the Laws of 1906, chapter 508 of the Laws of 1907 and chapter 198 of the Laws of 1908.) FULTON CITY HOSPITAL. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Fulton, generally. Chapter 358, Laws of 1908. § 187. City hospital. Whenever title to a suitable site for a hospital, with buildings thercon wherein not less than five patients at a time can be accommodated, shall be acquired by the city by gift, grant, devise, or in any other manner, the common council shall, at the next general city election, submit to the people a proposition to raise the sum of fifteen hundred dollars annually by general tax for the support and maintenance of such hospital. If the proposition so submitted be carried at such election, the common council shall include in each annual tax levy thereafter the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, which, when collected, shall be credited to the general city fund and paid over by the chamberlain in quarterly payments to the treasurer of the board of governors of the city hospital. The sum so raised for hospital purposes may be increased whenever a proposition therefor shall be submitted and adopted at a general city election in the manner provided by the election law of this state. § 188. Board of governors of city hospital.- The affairs of the city hospital shall be managed by a board of sixteen governors, who shall serve without pay. The mayor shall be exofficio a member of said board and the president thereof. The first board, aside from the mayor, shall be composed of the directors of the present Fulton city hospital, as follows: Thomas Hunter, Charles J. Bacon and William M. Wells, who shall serve for the term of five years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine; L. Fowler Joy, George C. Webb and Norman H. Haviland, who shall serve for the term of four years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine; Charles R. Lee, Albert L. Warner and Joshua W. Rigley, who shall serve for the term of three years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine; Giles S. Piper, Frederick A. Gage and Thomas H. Marvin, who shall serve for the term of two years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine; Erwin J. Cusack, H. Lester Paddock and Harry L. Platt, who shall serve for the term of one year from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine. Thereafter, and on or prior to the first day of January in each year, the mayor shall appoint three governors, who shall serve for a term of five years from the first day of January after their appointment. In case of a vacancy in said board the same shall be filled by appointment by the mayor for the balance of the unexpired term. No person shall be appointed to said board who is not qualified to vote upon a proposition to raise money at a city election. Each governor named in br appointed under the provisions of this section shall, before entering upon the duties of the position, take and file with the city clerk the constitutional oath of office. § 189. Organization of board of governors, its powers and duties. The said board of governors, at its first meeting, shall elect from its members a vice-president, secretary and treasurer. The board shall have full power and it shall be its duty to adopt, and from time to time it may amend, modify or repeal, rules, regulations and by-laws for its own government and for the government, regulation and control of the hospital, its inmates and employes, the hospital buildings and the grounds and property appertaining thereto; to build, repair and keep in repair the city hospital and such outbuildings as shall be necessary for hospital purposes, and for that purpose all sums of money received by the city or said board of governors for hospital purposes by gift or devise shall be known as the hospital fund and shall be paid over to the city chamberlain and by him kept separate from other funds, and all interest received thereon shall be credited to such 'hospital fund; such fund shall be paid over by order of the common council to the treasurer of the hospital board from time to time and in such amounts as the board of governors shall certify to the common council to be necessary for hospital purposes. § 189-a. Acquisition of additional lands for hospital purposes. Whenever in the judgment of the board of governors it shall be necessary to acquire additional lands for hospital purposes, and sufficient funds are available therefor, said board may purchase the same for and on behalf of the city. In case said board is not able to agree with the owner or owners for the purchase of such additional lands, the common council shall proceed to acquire the same by condemnation proceedings under the provisions of the condemnation law of this state. § 189-b. Annual report of board of governors.-The board of governors shall, at the close of the fiscal year, make a written. report to the common council of all expenditures made or incurred by said board during such year, showing separately and by items the amount expended from each fund and the balance. standing to the credit of each fund. Chapter 249, Laws of 1909. Section 1. The action of the common council of the city of Fulton, in submitting a proposition to the voters of said city at the last general election to raise the sum of fifteen hundred dollars annually, by general tax, for the support and maintenance of the city hospital is hereby legalized and made valid, and the result of the vote on said proposition is hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed, and shall have the same force, validity and effect as if such proposition had been submitted to such voters at a general or special city election as provided by the charter of such city. § 2. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court. HELPING HAND HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, PEEKSKILL. AN ACT authorizing the town board of the town of Cortlandt to appropriate certain moneys to the helping hand hospital association of Peekskill, New York. Chapter 263, Laws of 1905. Section 1. The town board of the town of Cortlandt in the county of Westchester is hereby authorized to appropriate and pay annually from the moneys received by the said town under the provisions of the liquor tax law, to the helping hand hospital association of Peekskill, New York, for the care, support and maintenance of such of the inmates of the hospital in the town of Cortlandt, owned and conducted by said association, as may be received therein, pursuant to the rules established by the state board of charities, a sum which in any one year shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars, and such money shall be paid only so long as the said hospital shall treat, free of other charge, such indigent persons, actual residents of the town of Cortlandt requiring treatment, as come within the classes treated by said hospital. The supervisor of the said town of Cortlandt shall make payment of such moneys to said hospital association when authorized and directed so to do by the said board, and such annual payment may commence at the time when this act goes into effect, or at any time thereafter, and may be made at such time or times and in such installments or otherwise as the said town board may direct, provided the same shall not in any one year exceed the aforesaid sum of fifteen hundred dollars. HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL OF ALBANY, N. Y. AN ACT making appropriations for certain expenses of government and supplying deficiencies in former appropriations. Chapter 433, Laws of 1909. Section 1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, * * * * * For the maintenance and medical and surgical care by a hospital of such officers, members and employees of the several departments, bureaus and branches of the state government located in Albany as may be injured or become sick while in the performance of their duties, four thousand dollars ($4,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, said persons to be admitted upon the certificate of the superintendent of public buildings, after proper evidence of disability shall have been filed with such superintendent over the signature of the head of the department, bureau or branch of said government in which said duties were performed and of a physician or surgeon duly authorized to practice medicine in the state of New York. HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF SCHENECTADY. AN ACT to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the city of Schenectady. Chapter 371, Laws of 1903. 889. Appropriation for hospital associations; The board of estimate and apportionment may annually include in the tax budget not more than four thousand dollars, for the hospital association of the city of Schenectady, for the care, support and maintenance of such inmates of such hospital as may be received and retained therein, pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities, and payments may be made therefor subject to such rules. * * * AN ACT to authorize the city of Schenectady to borrow money and issue the bonds of said city therefor, for the purpose of purchasing the buildings and premises now used, occupied and owned by the hospital association of said city and for the repairing and renovation of said buildings and premises. Chapter 230, Laws of 1905. Section 1. The common council of the city of Schenectady is hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate thirty thousand dollars, in sums of one thousand dollars each, payable at such time within thirty years after their respective issues as the said common council shall determine, with interest payable semi-annually, at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, the rate thereof to be determined by the said common council. Such bonds shall be executed by the mayor and the treasurer of said city under the corporate seal of said city and countersigned by the comptroller of said city. The said comptroller shall sell and dispose of such bonds or any part thereof at public auction or by sealed proposals after giving at least three weeks' public notice of the time and place of sale by daily publication thereof in the official newspaper of said city and in such other newspapers as the said common council shall determine and shall award the same to the highest bidder or bidders therefor, but at not less than par and accrued interest. |