§ 10. (Repealed by chapter 138 of the Laws of 1898.) § 11. All the cost and expense of conveying to the asylums, and the cost of the keeping of the insane, and all other persons in the asylums who are by law a public charge upon the county of Fulton, also the fees of the physician examining such insane, shall be audited by the board of supervisors and charged to said county. All the cost and expense of conveying paupers from any town in said county to the poorhouse shall be a town charge, and shall be audited exclusively by the board of town auditors and paid by the town from which they are sent. § 12. The superintendent of the poor of said county shall annually on or before the tenth day of January appoint a physi cian to the poorhouse by a written instrument under his hand which shall be filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county. Such physician shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, which shall be a county charge and be payable quarterly as the salaries of other county officers are paid, and shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by said physician and for all medicines used or necessary to be used or furnished at the said poorhouse. (As amended by chapter 751 of the Laws of 1904.) § 13. (Repealed by chapter 138 of the Laws of 1898.) 14. The superintendent of the poor in the county of Fulton, shall not grant any relief outside of the poorhouse, or in any town or city in said county, either for the care, support or maintenance of the poor, or for permanent or temporary relief. The superintendent of the poor, or the keeper of the poorhouse, in said county shall not receive or maintain, at the expense of the county, or of any town or city in said county any pauper or tramp without a written order from the supervisor of one of the towns of said county, or from the commissioner of charities of one of the cities of said county; all such orders shall be filed in the office of the superintendent of the poor of said county. The superintendent of the poor of said county may appoint a matron to the poorhouse, but the said matron shall not be one of the superintendent's family or any relative of the superintendent of the poor of said county, or of his wife. The board of supervisors of said county, shall fix the compensation of the matron to said poorhouse, but such compensation shall not exceed the sum of five dollars per week and her board. (As amended by chapter 138 of the Laws of 1898.) 15. At the general election held in the county of Fulton in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and at the general election held in said county in every third year thereafter, there shall be elected by the electors of said county, in the same way and manner as other county officers are now required by law to be elected, a superintendent of the poor of said county. The term of office of such superintendent of the poor so elected shall be for three years from and shall commence on the first day of January next succeeding such election; and every superintendent of the poor elected pursuant to this act shall exercise all the powers, and discharge all the duties now by law exercised and discharged by superintendents of the poor, except such powers and duties as are inconsistent with this act, and shall also be subject to the same liabilities and penalties that superintendents of the poor are now by law subject to. § 16. Every superintendent of the poor elected pursuant to this act shall reside at the poorhouse, and be the keeper thereof, and shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, which shall be a county charge and be payable quarterly as the salaries of other county officers are paid; he shall also be entitled to food, lights and fuel for himself and family at the poorhouse residence, which shall be furnished at the expense of the county. Said salary and compensation shall be in full payment for all the services now required by law or which may hereafter be required by law to be rendered by him as such superintendent of the poor and keeper of the poorhouse, and shall include all fees, charges and expenses for services rendered or incurred in proceedings for the care and commitment of insane persons which are or may be a charge against said county, and such salary or compensation shall not be increased or diminished during the term of office of any such superintendent of the poor. (As amended by chapter 751 of the Laws of 1904.) § 17. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of superintendent of the poor of said county, the board of supervisors thereof, at an annual meeting or a special meeting called for VOL. III -21 that purpose, shall appoint some person to fill such vacancy, who shall hold his office during the remainder of the term, and shall, before entering upon his duties, give a bond, such as is required by law from superintendents of the poor, except that it shall be approved by the county judge of said county; said bond, with the approval aforesaid indorsed thereon, shall be filed within five days after such approval in the office of the clerk of said county. § 18. No superintendent of the poor of the county of Fulton shall be directly or indirectly interested in any goods, wares or merchandise, provisions, clothing or any other article or thing whatever furnished, ordered or contracted for by him for the use of or at the poorhouse or the poor therein. § 19. The superintendent of the poor of said county shall, in each year, render, under oath, to the board of supervisors of said county, at its annual meeting, a true and full statement of all moneys received by him from said county, or from any source, for the benefit of the county, of all the products raised on the county farm belonging to the said county poorhouse, and of all supplies purchased, ordered or contracted for by him, and of the disposition which has been made of the same, and of any property belonging to the county, and of all labor that has been performed by the paupers in said poorhouse, and the manner in which the same has been performed. § 20. The board of supervisors of said county shall have power to direct by resolution, to be entered in its minutes, the quantity, quality and the manner in which the supplies for the county poorhouse, or any portion thereof, shall be purchased, obtained or contracted for; also for all the property and labor at or on the poorhouse, and for the working of the farm, and for all implements for the working of the same, and for all repairs on the buildings and fences. 21. The superintendent of the poor of said county shall be subject to removal from office, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, in the same way and manner as provided by law for the removal of sheriffs. 22. All the cost and expense for all the relief granted outside. of the poorhouse in the several towns of said county, since December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care, support and maintenance of the poor, or for permanent or temporary relief, by the supervisors of the several towns, shall be a charge against the town where the supervisor granting the relief resides. All such expense shall be audited exclusively by the board of town auditors of said town, and paid in the same manner as other town accounts are paid. (As amended by chapter 138 of the Laws of 1898.) § 23. (Repealed by chapter 138 of the Laws of 1898.) 8 24. The following special acts for the care and support of the poor in the county of Fulton, namely: Chapter four hundred and ninety-seven, laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five; chapter one hundred and eighty-one, laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; chapter two hundred and forty-two, laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; chapter one hundred and eighteen, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-two; chapter two hundred and nine, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, are hereby repealed; except the provisions of this act shall not affect the fees or compensation of any supervisor now acting as overseer of the poor in Fulton county during the term for which he has been elected. 25. This act shall not apply to the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown, or either of them, or the poor of said cities, except as herein expressly stated. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. (As amended by chapter 138 of the Laws of 1898.) JEFFERSON COUNTY. AN ACT to provide for the support of the poor in the county of Jefferson, Chapter 817, Laws of 1873. Section 1. There shall not hereafter be elected any overseer of the poor in any of the towns of Jefferson county except in the city of Watertown and the towns of Ellisburgh, Cape Vin cent, Wilna and Champion, and all the powers and duties of overseers of the poor as now provided by law are hereby conferred upon the supervisors of the respective towns in said county except in the city of Watertown and the towns of Ellisburgh, Cape Vincent, Wilna and Champion, where the overseer of the poor shall discharge all the duties of overseer of the poor conferred by this act with the restrictions hereinafter provided and the supervisors of each of the towns except those above named in said county shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties aforesaid and shall be subject to all liabilities and penalties that overseers of the poor are now subject to. (As amended by chapter 24 of the Laws of 1888.) § 2. It shall be the duties of the supervisors of the several towns in said county and of the overseer of the poor of the city of Watertown except Ellisburgh, Cape Vincent, Wilna and Champion, to grant all necessary aid or relief to poor and indigent persons residing in their respective towns, and it shall be the duty of each supervisor except Ellisburgh, Cape Vincent, Wilna and Champion, and of the overseer of the poor of the city of Watertown to enter into a book to be kept by each of them for that purpose the name, age and sex of every person by them relieved together with an account of all the sums of money expended and the items of expenditure in the relief of each poor or indigent person and the cause of poverty in each case so far as it can be ascertained. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of the several towns except Ellisburgh, Cape Vincent, Wilna and Champion, and of the overseer of the poor of the city of Watertown to furnish to the clerk of the board of supervisors on or before the first day of the annual meeting of said board a copy of all the entries in the book provided to be kept by such supervisors and overscer for the year ending on the first day of November of each year, and also to present the same to the boards of audit of their respective towns and city at their annual meeting for the audit of town and city accounts, and such supervisor for all services (including mileage) rendered in the discharge of his official duties as aforesaid shall receive for each day's actual service the sum of two dollars provided that such supervisor shall |