Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. § 82 in which the headquarters of such post is situated, and it shall be the duty of such commissioner to annually include in his estimate of the amount necessary for the support of his department such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of sections eighty, eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three and eighty-four of this act and the proper officers charged with the duty of making the budget of any such city shall annually include therein such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for that purpose. Moneys actually laid out and expended by any such post for the relief specified in section eighty of this act shall be reimbursed quarterly to such post by the comptroller on vouchers duly verified by the commander and quartermaster of said post, showing the date and amount of each payment, the certificate of the post relief committee, signed by at least three members, none of whom shall have received any of the relief granted by the post for which reimbursement is asked, showing that the person relieved was an actual resident of such city, and that they recommended each payment, and the receipt of the recipient for each payment, or in case such receipt could not be obtained, a statement of such fact, with the reason why such receipt could not be obtained. Such vouchers shall be made in duplicate on blanks to be supplied by the comptroller and shall be presented to the commissioner of charities for the borough in which the headquarters of the post is situated, and if such commissioner is satisfied that such moneys have been actually expended as in said voucher stated, he shall approve the same, and file one of said duplicates in his office and forward the other to the comptroller, who shall pay the same by a warrant drawn to the order of the said commander. And provided further, that in any city, county or borough in which Grand Army posts have organized or may organize a memorial and executive committee, the latter shall be regarded as a post of the Grand Army of the Republic. And the chairman, treasurer or almoner and bureau of relief or relief committee referred to, shall exercise the same privileges and powers as the commander, quartermaster and relief committee of a post, on complying with the requirements of this and the preceding section. Wilful false swearing to such voucher shall be deemed perjury and shall be punishable as such. (As amended by chap. 337 of 1898 and chap. 462 of 1899.) § 82. Poor or indigent soldiers, et cetera, without families. -Poor or indigent soldiers, sailors or marines provided for in this article, who are not insane, and who have no families of friends with whom they may be domiciled, may be sent to a soldiers' home. Any poor or indigent soldier, sailor or marine provided for in this chapter, or any member of the family of any living or deceased soldier, sailor or marine, who may be insane, shall, upon recommendation of the commander and relief committee of such post of the Grand Army of the Republic, within the jurisdiction of which the case may occur, be sent to the proper state hospital for the insane. § 83. Burial of soldiers, sailors or marines.-The board of supervisors in each of the counties shall designate some proper person or authority, other than that designated for the care of poor persons, or the custody of criminals, who shall cause to be interred, the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine, who has served in the military or naval service of the United States, who shall hereafter die without leaving means sufficient to defray his funeral expenses, but such expenses shall in no case exceed thirty-five dollars. If the deceased has relatives or friends who desire to conduct the burial, but are unable or unwilling to pay the charges therefor, such sum shall be paid by the county treasurer upon due proof of the claim, and of the death and burial of the soldier, sailor or marine to the person so conducting such burial. Such interment shall not be made in a cemetery or cemetery plot used exclusively for the burial of poor persons deceased. (As amended by chap. 24 of 1900.) 84. Headstones to be provided. The grave of any such deceased soldier, sailor or marine shall be marked by a headstone containing the name of the deceased, and, if possible, the organization to which he belonged, or in which he served; such headstone shall cost not more than fifteen dollars, and shall be of such design and material as shall be approved by the board of supervisors, and the expense of such burial and headstone as provided for in this article, shall be a charge upon, and shall be paid by the county in which the said soldier, sailor or marine shall have died; and the board of supervisors of such county is hereby authorized and directed to audit the account and pay the expense of such burial in the same manner as other accounts against said county are audited and paid; provided, however, that in case such deceased soldier, sailor or marine shall be at the time of his death an inmate of any State institution, includ ing state hospitals and soldiers' homes, or any institution supported by the state and supported at public expense therein, the expense of such burials and headstones shall be a charge upon the county of his legal residence. ARTICLE VI. STATE POOR. SECTION 90. Who are state poor, and how relieved. 91. Notice to be given to county clerks of location of state almshouse. 92. State poor to be conveyed to state alms-houses. 93. Punishment for leaving alms-house. 94. Expenses for support. 95. Duties of keeper; superintendent of state and alien poor to keep record of names. 96. Visitation of alms-houses. 97. Insane poor. 98. Care of and binding out of state poor children. 99. Transfer to other states or countries. 100. Power of superintendent of state and alien poor. 101. Indian poor persons; removal to county alms-houses. 103. Expenses for support of Indian poor persons. 104. Duty of keepers; superintendent of state and alien poor to keep record. § 90. Who are state poor, and how relieved.-Any poor person who shall not have resided sixty days in any county in this state within one year preceding the time of an application by him for aid to any superintendent or overseer of the poor, or other officer charged with the support and relief of poor persons, shall be deemed to be a state poor person, and shall be maintained as in this article provided. The state board of charities shall, from time to time, on behalf of the state, contract for such time, and on such terms as it may deem proper, with the authorities of not more than fifteen counties or cities of this state, for the reception and support, in the alms-houses of such counties or cities respectively, of such poor persons as may be committed thereto. Such board may establish rules and regulations for the discipline, employment, treatment and care of such poor persons, and for their discharge. Every such contract shall be in writing, and filed in the office of such board. Such alms-houses, while used for the purposes of this article, shall be appropriately designated by such board and known as state alms-houses. Such board may from time to time, direct the transfer of any such poor person from one alms-house to another, and may give notice from time to time to counties, to which alms-houses they shall send poor persons. 91. Notice to be given to county clerks of location of state alms-houses.-Such board shall give notice to the county clerks of the several counties of the location of each of such almshouses, who thereupon shall cause such notice to be duly promul gated to the superintendents and overseers of the poor, and other officers charged with the support and relief of poor persons in their respective counties. A circular from the superintendent of state and alien poor appointed by such board shall accompany such notice, giving all necessary information respecting the commitment, support and care of the state poor in such alms-houses, according to the provisions of this article. § 92. State poor to be conveyed to state alms-house.-County superintendents of the poor, or officers exercising like powers, on satisfactory proof being made that the person so applying for relief as a state poor person, as defined by this chapter, is such poor person, shall, by a warrant issued to any proper person or officer, cause such person, if not a child under sixteen years of age to be conveyed to the nearest state alms-house, where he shall be maintained until duly discharged, but a child under two years of age may be sent with its mother, who is a state poor person, to such state alms-house, but not longer than until it is two years of age. All testimony taken in any such proceeding shall be forwarded, within five days thereafter, to the superintendent of state and alien poor, and a verified statement of the expenses incurred by the person in making such removal, shall be sent to such superintendent. Such board shall examine and audit the same, and allow the whole, or such parts thereof, as have been actually and necessarily incurred; provided that no allowance shall be made to any person for his time or service in making such removal. All such accounts for expense, when so audited and allowed, shall be paid by the state treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the person incurring the same. 8 93. Punishment for leaving alms-house.-An inmate of a state alms-house, who shall leave the same without being duly discharged, and within one year thereafter is found in any city or town of this state soliciting public or private aid, shall be punished by confinement in the county jail of the county in which he is so found, or in any work house of this state in such county, for a term not exceeding three months, by any court of competent jurisdiction; and it shall be the duty of every superintendent and overseer of the poor and other officers charged with the support and relief of poor persons, to cause, as far as may be, the provisions of this section to be enforced. 8 94. Expenses for support.-The expenses for the support, treatment and care of all poor persons who shall be sent as state poor to such alms-houses, shall be paid quarterly, on the first day of January, April, July and October in each year, to the treasurer of the county, or proper city officers incurring the same, by the treasurer of the state, on the warrant of the comptroller; but no such expenses shall be paid to any county or city. until an account of the number of persons thus supported, and the time that each shall have been respectively maintained, shall have been rendered in due form and approved by the state board of charities. 895. Duty of keepers; superintendent of state and alien poor to keep record of names.-The keeper or principal officer in charge of such alms-house shall enter the names of all persons received by him pursuant to this article, with such particulars in reference to each as the board, from time to time may prescribe, together with the name of the superintendent by whom the commitment was made, in a book to be kept for that purpose. Within three days after the ådmission of any such person, such keeper or principal officer shall transmit the name of such person, with the particulars hereinbefore mentioned, to the superintendent of state and alien poor; and notice of the death, discharge or absconding of any such person shall in like manner and within the time above named, be thus sent to such superintendent. Such superintendent shall cause the names of such persons in each such alms-house furnished as above provided for, to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose in the office of such board, and he shall verify the correctness thereof by comparison with the books kept in such alms-house, and by personal examination of the several inmates thereof, and in any other manner the board may from time to time direct; and he shall furnish the board, in tabulated statements, on or before the second Tuesday in January, annually, the number of inmates maintained in each and all of such alms-houses during the preceding year, |