and twenty-five dollars each per year, until they attain the age of twelve years, unless the directors of the institution to which a child has been sent shall find that such child is not a proper subject to remain in said institution. (As amended by chapter 322 of the Laws of 1910.) nance. § 980. Payment of expenses of tuition and mainteThe expenses for the board, tuition and clothing for such deaf-mute children, placed as aforesaid in said institutions, not exceeding the amount of three hundred and twenty-five dollars per year, above allowed, shall be raised and collected as are other expenses of the county from which such children shall be received; and the bills therefor, properly authenticated by the principal or one of the officers of the institution, shall be paid to said institution by the said county; and its county treasurer or chamberlain, as the case may be, is hereby directed to pay the same on presentation, so that the amount thereof may be borne by the proper county. (As amended by chapter 322 of the Laws of 1910.) ARTICLE XXXIX. New York State School for the Blind. Section 990. Change of name. 991. Requisites for admission. 992. Applicants from without the state. 993. Applications for admission. 994. Object of institution. 995. Appointment and terms of trustees. 996. Filling vacancies. 997. Trustees entitled to mileage; disabilities. 998. General powers of trustees. 999. Officers, committees and seal. 1000. Secretary. 1001. Treasurer's duties and bond. 1002. Appointment of superintendent, instructors and assistants. 1003. Purchase of equipment. Section 1004. Duty to provide clothing and pay traveling ex penses. 1005. Charges against county. 1006. Accounts against counties and payment thereof. 1007. Reimbursement of counties. 1008. Entitled to publications and may receive bequests. and donations. 1009. Records and annual reports. 1010. Payment by state treasurer. 1011. Drafts upon state treasury. *962. Consent of trustees to construction of sewers. § 990. Change of name. The New York state institution for the blind as the same was authorized to be established by chapter five hundred and eighty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five and the acts supplemental thereto and renamed the "New York state school for the blind" by laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, chapter five hundred sixty-three, shall continue to be known and designated as the "New York state school for the blind." § 991. Requisites for admission. All blind persons of suitable age and capacity for instruction, who are legal residents of the state, shall be entitled to the privileges of the New York state school for the blind, without charge, and for such a period of time in each individual case as may be deemed expedient by the board of trustees of said school; provided that, whenever more persons apply for admission at one time than can be properly accommo dated in the school, the trustees shall so apportion the number received, but each county may be represented in the ratio of its blind population to the total blind population of the state; and provided further, that the children of citizens who died in the United States. service, or from wounds received therein during the late rebellion, shall take precedence over all others. Blind § 992. Applicants from without the state. persons from without the state may be received into the school upon the payment of an adequate sum, fixed by the trustees, for their * Not renumbered to correspond with §§ 990-1011. boarding and instruction; provided that such applicant shall in no case exclude those from the state of New York. § 993. Applications for admission. Applications for admission into the school shall be made to the board of trustees in such manner as they may direct, but the board shall require such application to be accompanied by a certificate from the county judge or county clerk of the county or the supervisor or town clerk of the town, or the mayor of the city where the applicant resides, setting forth that the applicant is a legal resident of the town, county and state claimed as his residence. § 994. Object of institution. The primary object of the school shall be, to furnish to the blind children of the state the best known facilities for acquiring a thorough education, and train them in some useful profession or manual art, by means of which they may be enabled to contribute to their own support after leaving the school; but it may likewise, through its industrial department, provide such of them with appropriate employment and boarding accommodations as find themselves unable, after completing their course of instruction and training, to procure these elsewhere for themselves. It shall, however, be in no sense an asylum for those who are helpless from age, infirmity or otherwise, or a hospital for the treatment of blindness. § 995. Appointment and terms of trustees. The governor shall continue, each alternate year, to appoint, by and with the consent of the senate, three trustees who shall serve for a term of six years. Two of the board must be residents of the county of Genesee, and a majority must be residents within fifty miles of said school. § 996. Filling vacancies. In case of the declination of any member of said board of trustees to act under his appointment, or of the occurrence of any other casual vacancy in the board, the governor shall forthwith appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy, and the member so appointed shall serve out the term of his predecessor. 997. Trustees entitled to mileage; disabilities. The trustees shall receive no compensation as such, but they may allow themselves mileage, at the same rate as that paid to members VOL. 3-11 of the legislature, for any distance actually traveled in the service of the school. Nor shall any trustee be pecuniarily interested in any contract for buildings pertaining to the school, or in furnishing supplies therefor. § 998. General powers of trustees. The board of trustees shall have charge of all the affairs of the school, with power to make all necessary by-laws and regulations for their government and the proper management of the school, as well as for the admission of pupils, and to do all else which may be found necessary for the advancement of its humane design. § 999. Officers, committees and seal. They shall elect from their own number a president and treasurer, together with such standing committees as they may deem necessary, and adopt a common seal for the school. § 1000. Secretary. The board of trustees may elect a secretary, who shall serve during the pleasure of the board, and who shall not be a member thereof, and may fill any vacancy in the said office as often as the same shall occur, and may prescribe his duties and fix his compensation. § 1001. Treasurer's duties and bond. 1. The treasurer shall have the custody of all the funds of the school, and pay out the same only upon properly authenticated orders of the board or executive committee. 2. Before entering upon the duties of his office, he shall execute and file in the office of the comptroller, a bond with such sureties and in such amount of penalty as the comptroller shall require and approve, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties. as such treasurer. § 1002. Appointment of superintendent, instructors and assistants. The trustees shall have power to appoint a competent and experienced superintendent, who shall be the chief executive officer of the school, together with an efficient corps of instructors and other subordinate officers; prescribe the duties and terms of service of the same; fix and pay their salaries, and for just cause, remove any or all of them from office. They shall likewise employ the requisite number of servants and other assist ants in the various departments of the school and pay the wages of the same. § 1003. Purchase of equipment. They shall purchase all furniture, apparatus and other supplies necessary to the equipment and carrying on of the school in the most efficient manner. § 1004. Duty to supply clothing and pay traveling expenses. 1. When any blind person shall, upon proper application, be admitted into the school, it shall be the duty of his parents, guardians or other friends, to suitably provide such person with clothing at the time of entrance and during continuance therein, and likewise to defray his traveling expenses to and from the school, at the time of entrance and discharge, as well as at the beginning and close of each session of the school, and at any other time when it shall become necessary to send such person home on account of sickness or other exigency. 2. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the trustees to have such person permanently removed from the school, in accordance with the by-laws and regulations thereof, the same shall be promptly removed upon their order, by his parents, guardians or other friends. State Institutions — Liability of county for support, etc. ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Prof. O. H. BURRITT, Superintendent, New York State School for the Blind, Batavia, N. Y.; DEAR SIR.-Your letter of inquiry, regarding the residence of, and county liable for, the support, clothing and traveling expenses of the three children of George G. Speed, who are inmates of the School for the Blind at Batavia, was duly received, but owing to the great pressure of business in the office has not been answered before; but inasmuch as the bills for this care, clothing, etc., are to be submitted on the 1st of October, I trust the delay has caused no harm. The facts in this case appear to be that one George Speed was born in the village of Seneca Falls; that he resided there at all times up to the time of his marriage; that he married in Seneca Falls; that four children of such union were born at Seneca Falls, Seneca county, N. Y., and that the three children who are now inmates of the institution of which you are superintendent were committed to said institution from Seneca Falls while their parents had a legal residence and settlement at said village. |