prescribed by the board of managers. Insane idiots or epileptics shall not be committed to such asylum. Unteachable idiots other than the poor and indigent may be admitted to the asylum, if vacancies exist, after providing for the care and custody of the poor and indigent idiots, at a rate which shall not exceed the weekly per capita cost of maintaining all inmates as determined yearly by the board of managers. The maintenance of the institution and the poor and indigent inmates thereof shall be a charge upon the state. ARTICLE VII. THE CRAIG COLONY FOR EPILEPTICS. SECTION 100. Establishment and objects of colony. 101. Managers of the colony. 102. Buildings and improvements. 103. Powers and duties of managers. 104. Annual report; state board of charities. 106. Officers of the colony. 107. Duties of the superintendent. 108. Duties of treasurer. 109. Designation and admission of patients. 110. Support of state patients. 111. Apportionment of state patients. 112. The support of private patients. 113. Discharge of patients. 114. Notice of opening of colony. 100. Establishment and objects of colony.-The colony for epileptics established at Sonyea, Livingston county, is hereby continued, and shall be known as the Craig Colony for Epileptics, in honor of the late Oscar Craig, of Rochester, New York, whose efficient and gratuitous public services in behalf of epileptics and other dependent unfortunates, the state desires to commemorate. The objects of such colony shall be to secure the humane, curative, scientific and economical care and treatment of epileptics, exclusive of insane epileptics. § 101. Managers of the colony.-There shall be a board of twelve managers of the Craig colony, all of whom shall be citizens of the state, appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, one from each judicial district and one additional member from each of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth judicial districts. The term of office of each manager hereafter appointed to succeed a manager whose term has expired shall be The Craig Colony for Epileptics. 88 102-103 three years, and the term of office of four of such managers shall expire annually. The managers in office when this chapter takes effect shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which they were appointed and until their successors are appointed and have qualified. Appointments to fill vacancies occurring by death, removal or resignation, shall be made without unnecessary delay for the unexpired term. Failure of any manager to attend in each year the whole of two stated meetings of the board, shall be a sufficient cause for removal by the governor. Any manager may be removed by the governor upon written charges preferred against him, after an opportunity to be heard in his defence. The managers shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed their reasonable traveling and official expenses, to be paid as other charges against the institution. § 102. Buildings and improvements.-The board of managers shall put the premises conveyed to the state for the use of the colony into proper condition for the reception of patients and shall receive patients gradually and as rapidly as the condition of the colony will admit. They shall utilize all buildings and improvements on the land so conveyed, and construct such additional buildings and make further improvements upon plans adopted by them and approved by the state board of charities and for which appropriations are made by the legislature. There shall be provided for such colony an abundant supply of wholesome water, sufficient means for drainage and the disposal of sewage and a proper sanitary system. All of which shall be done under the direction of the board of managers in accordance with plans adopted by them, and approved by the state board of charities. $103. Powers and duties of managers.-Six members of the board of managers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall: 1. Elect from their number a president and secretary, and may adopt a seal for the use of the colony. 2. Have the government, direction and control of the patients, officers and employes of the colony and of all the property and concerns thereof. 3. Purchase supplies for the use of the colony and such raw materials as may be necessary for the trades and industries pursued therein, and provide for the disposal of the manufactured products and the product of the land. 4. Employ the assistants necessary for the government of the colony, and to educate and properly use the labor of the patients. 5. Establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary regulating the appointment, powers and duties of officers, teachers, attendants and assistants, fixing the condition of admission, treatment, education, support, custody, discipline and discharge of patients, conducting in a proper manner the business of the colony, and regulating the internal government, discipline and management of the colony. 6. Maintain an effective inspection of the affairs and management of the colony, for which purpose they shall meet at the institution at least four times in each year and at such other times as the by-laws shall prescribe. Their annual meeting shall be held on the second Tuesday of October. 7. Appoint at its annual meeting, a committee of three managers, who shall visit the colony at least once in every month, and perform such other duties and exercise such other powers as are prescribed in the by-laws, or directed by the board. 8. Copy in a bound book, a fair and full record of all its proceedings, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of its members and officers of the state board of charities, and all persons whom the governor or either house of the legislature may appoint to examine the same. (As amended by chap. 359 of 1898, § 1.) § 104. Annual report; state board of charities.-The board of managers of the Craig colony shall annually, on or before the first day of November, for the preceding fiscal year, report to the state board of charities the affairs and conditions of the colony, with full and detailed estimates of the next appropriation required for maintenance and ordinary uses and repairs, and of special appropriations, if any, needed for extraordinary repairs, renewals, extensions, improvement, betterments or other necessary objects, as also for the erection of additional buildings needed by reason of overcrowding, and in order to prevent the same, or to meet the need of sufficient accommodations for patients seeking admission to the colony; and the state board of charities shall, in its annual report to the legislature, certify what appropriations are, in its opinion, necessary and proper. The said colony shall be subject to the visitation and to the general powers of the state board of charities. § 105. Donations in trust. The managers may take and hold in trust for the state any grant or devise of land, or any gift or The Craig Colony for Epileptics. §§ 106-107 bequest of money or other personal property, or any donation, to be applied, principal or income, or both, to the maintenance and education of epileptics and the general uses of the colony. § 106. Officers of the colony.-The board of managers shall appoint a superintendent of the colony, who shall be a welleducated physician and a graduate of a legally chartered medical college, with an experience of at least five years in the actual practice of his profession, and who shall be certified as qualified by the civil service commission, after a competitive examination; and a treasurer who shall reside in the county of Livingston, and shall give an undertaking to the people of the state for the faithful performance of his trust, in such sum and form and with such sureties as the comptroller shall approve. Such officers may be discharged or suspended at any time by such board, in its discretion. The superintendent shall constantly reside in the colony. The board shall determine the annual salaries and allowances of the superintendent, steward and matron, not exceeding, in addition to maintenance supplies, the following sums for salaries: Four thousand dollars to the superintendent; fifteen hundred dollars to the steward; one thousand dollars to the matron; and the board shall determine the annual salary of the treasurer of the colony, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars. Such salaries and allowances shall be paid quarterly, on the first day of October, January, April and July, each year, by the treasurer of the colony, on presentation of bills therefor, audited, allowed and certified, as prescribed in the by-laws. § 107. Duties of the superintendent. The superintendent shall be the chief executive officer of the colony, and subject to the supervision and control of the board of managers; he shall : 1. Oversee and secure the individual treatment and personal care of each and every patient of the colony while resident therein and the proper oversight of all the inhabitants thereof. 2. Have the general superintendence of the buildings, grounds and farm, with their furniture, fixtures and stock, and the direction and control of all persons employed in and about the same. 3. Give, from time to time, such orders and instructions as he may deem best calculated to induce good conduct, fidelity and economy in any department of labor or education or treatment of patients. 4. Appoint a steward and a matron and employ a bookkeeper and such teachers, assistants and attendants as he may think necessary to economically and efficiently carry into effect the design of the colony; prescribe their duties and places, and, subject to the approval of the board of managers, fix their compensation. The steward and matron shall reside in the colony. 5. Maintain salutary discipline among all employees, patients and inhabitants of the colony, have the custody and control of every patient admitted to the colony until properly discharged, and subject to the regulations of the managers, restrain and discipline any patient in such manner as he may judge is for the welfare of the patient and the proper conduct of the colony, and enforce strict compliance with the instructions and uniform obedience to all the rules and regulations of the colony. 6. Cause full and fair accounts and records of the entire business and operations of the colony, with the condition and prospects of the patients, to be kept regularly, from day to day, in books provided for that purpose. 7. See that such accounts and records shall be fully made up to the first days of January, April, July and October, in each year, and that the principal facts and results, with his report thereon, be presented to the board of managers in its quarterly meetings. 8. Conduct the official correspondence of the colony, and keep a record or copy of all letters written by himself and by his clerks and agents, and files of all letters received by him or them. 9. Prepare and present to the board, at its annual meeting, a true and perfect inventory of all the personal property and effects belonging to the colony, and account, when required by the board, for the careful keeping and economical use of all furniture, stores and other articles furnished for the colony. 10. Keep a record of all applications for admission of patients, and enter in a book to be provided and kept for that purpose, at the time of admission of each patient to the colony, a minute, with the date, name, residence of the patient, and of the persons on whose application he is received, with a copy of the application, statement, certificate, and all other papers received relating to such epileptic patient, the originals of which he shall file and carefully preserve, and certified copies whereof he shall forthwith transmit to the state board of charities. (As amended by chap. 359 of 1898, 1.) 8 108. Duties of treasurer. The treasurer, among his other duties, shall: 1. Have the custody of all moneys received on account of the |