expenditures in duplicate, one of which statements, together with all vouchers, shall be filed with the comptroller, and one of which shall be filed in his own office. Each commissioner shall, on or before the first day of September in each year, prepare an itemized estimate of his necessary expenses for the ensuing fiscal year and present the same to the board. The three estimates so prepared as revised by the board shall together constitute the annual estimate of the department of buildings, and shall be submitted to the board of estimate and apportionment within the time prescribed by this act for the submission of estimates for the several departments of the city. No commissioner shall incur any expense for any purpose in excess of the amount appropriated therefor; nor shall he expend any money so appropriated for any purpose other than that for which it was appropriated. Record of applications. § 652. Each commissioner shall keep a record of all applications presented to him concerning, affecting or relating to the construction, alteration or removal of buildings or other structures. Such record shall include the date of the filing of each such application; the name and address of the applicant; the name and address of the owner of the land on which the structure mentioned in such application is situated; the names and addresses of the architect and builder employed thereon; a designation of the premises by street number, or otherwise, sufficient to identify the same; a statement of the nature and proposed use of such structure; and a brief statement of the nature of the application, together with a memorandum of the decision of the commissioner upon such application and the date of the rendition of such decision. The books containing such records are hereby declared to be public records and shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times. CHAPTER XIII. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. Sec. 658. Jurisdiction; salary. 659. Rules and regulations; subordinate officers. 660. Public institutions under the jurisdiction of the commissioners. 661. Payments to private institutions. 662. Powers of commissioners as to destitute and other persons. 663. Classification and instruction of inmates. 664. Powers of commissioners as to destitute and other children. 665. Notice of commitment of children. 666. Children committed as public charges; investigation. 667. Term of commitment of children; discharge. 668. Saving clause as to certain existing laws. 669. Record of inmates of institutions. 670. Temporary care in accident cases. 671. Temporary care of the insane. 672. Alteration and repair of buildings. 673. Potter's field. 674. Accounts; annual estimates; expenditures. 676. Expenditures for the relief of the blind. 677. Detail of inmates of correctional institutions to work in depart ment. 678. Care of non-residents in Bellevue and Kings county hospitals. 679. Requisitions of subordinate officers. 680. Reports of subordinate officers. 681. Employment of inmates; articles manufactured; cultivation of lands. 682. Hours of labor; discipline. 683. Support of poor persons by relatives. 684. Conduct of bastardy proceedings. 685. Maintenance of abandoned wives and children. 686. Commitments in abandonment proceedings; surety. 687. Actions on bonds in abandonment proceedings. 688. Recoveries in abandonment proceedings. 689. Appeals in abandonment proceedings; costs. Jurisdiction; salary. $658. The head of the department of public charities shall be called the board of public charities. Said board shall consist of three commissioners, who shall be designated commissioners of public charities of The City of New York. They shall be appointed by the mayor and hold their respective offices, as provided in chapter four of this act. One of said commissioners shall be the president of said board, and shall be so designated by the mayor. In appointing such commissioners the mayor shall specify the borough or boroughs in which they are respectively to have administrative jurisdiction, to wit: One in the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx; one in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens; one in the borough of Richmond. The salary of the commissioner for the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx, and of the commissioner for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, shall in each case be seven thousand five hundred dollars a year. The salary of the commissioner for the borough of Richmond shall be two thousand five hundred dollars a year. The principal office of the department shall be in the borough of Manhattan. There shall be a branch office in each of the other boroughs. See § 103, ante. Rules and regulations; subordinate officers. § 659. The said board shall by a vote of a majority of its members have power to establish general rules and regulations for the administration of the department and the government of the institutions under the jurisdiction of said several commissioners, except the institutions specified in section six hundred and sixty-one of this act, and such general rules and regulations shall be so far as practicable uniform in all the boroughs.. Subject to such general rules and regulations each commissioner shall have jurisdiction over the several classes of public institutions hereinafter specified which are situated or may hereafter be established within the borough or boroughs for which he is appointed. The commissioner for the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx, and the commissioner of the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, shall each have power to appoint and at pleasure to remove a deputy. Each deputy so appointed shall during the absence or disability of the commissioner appointing him possess all the powers and perform all the duties of such commissioner, except the powers conferred by sections six hundred and sixty-one and six hundred and sixty-four of this act. Whenever such absence or disability shall continue for five days, or in the judgment of the mayor it is necessary, either of the other commissioners may be designated by him to exercise such powers. The board of estimate and apportionment and the municipal assembly may from time to time provide for additional deputies in the last-named boroughs and also for a deputy in the borough of Richmond. Any deputy to serve in the borough of Richmond shall be appointed by the commissioner having administrative jurisdiction therein, and shall be subject to removal at his pleasure. Each of the commissioners, within the limits of his appropriation, shall have power to appoint and at pleasure to remove such subordinate officers and assistants as may be necessary for the efficient performance of his duties as such commissioner. The board shall have power to appoint a secretary, and, within the limit of its appropriation, to appoint such subordinate officers as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the office of the department. Public institutions under the jurisdiction of the commissioners. § 660. Each commissioner shall have jurisdiction over and it shall be his duty to take charge of and to establish and enforce rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the general rules and regulations established by the board, for the government of the following described classes of public institutions situated within the borough or boroughs for which he is appointed, viz.: all hospitals, asylums, almshouses and other institutions belonging to or hereafter acquired or established by The City of New York, which are or shall be devoted to the care of the feeble-minded, the sick, the infirm and the destitute; except hospital wards attached to penitentiaries and to other prisons and institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of correction; and except such hospitals as are or may hereafter be established and conducted by the department of health pursuant to law; and except the House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents and the House of Detention for Witnesses; and except the island known as Ward's island and the buildings and improvements thereon, and the equipment, fixtures and furniture of the asylums for the insane on said island during the continuance of the lease thereof heretofore made by The City of New York to the state of New York. Such buildings and grounds on Blackwell's island as are now used for the care of the insane pursuant to the provisions of chapter two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six shall, when the insane shall have been removed therefrom, be under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of public charities for the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx. The buildings and grounds, together with the equipments, fixtures and furniture of the buildings now leased to the state by the county of Kings for the care of the insane, shall, when said lease expires, be under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of public charities for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. L. 1895, ch. 912, § 4. Payments to private institutions. § 661. No payment shall be made by The City of New York to any charitable, eleemosynary or reformatory institution wholly or partly under private control, for the care, support, secular education, or maintenance of any child surrendered to such institution, or committed to, received or retained therein in accordance with sections six hundred and sixty-four, six hundred and sixty-five, six hundred and sixty-six and six hundred and sixty-seven of this act, except upon the certificate of the commissioner having administrative jurisdiction that such child has been received and is retained by such institution pursuant to the rules and regulations established by the state board of charities. Moneys paid by The City of New York to any such institution for the care, support, secular education or maintenance of its inmates shall not be expended for any other pur Whenever the commissioner shall decide, after reasonable notice to the institution and a hearing, that any such child as aforesaid who is received and retained in such institution is not a proper charge against the public, and notice of such decision in writing is given by him to such institution, thereupon all right on the part of said institution to receive compensation from the city for the further retention of the child shall cease. He shall file in the office of the department in the borough within which the institution is situated, a statement of the reasons for his decision and of the facts upon which it is founded, and shall furnish a copy to the institution where the child is detained. His decision may be reviewed on certiorari by the supreme court. See provisions of the New York Constitution in regard to payments by municipal corporations to charitable institutions in Appendix. Powers of commissioners as to destitute and other persons. § 662. The commissioner for the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx shall within said boroughs have all the authority concerning the care, custody and disposition of insane, feeble-minded, sick, infirm and destitute persons which the commissioners of public charities of the corporation known as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of The City of New York had at the time of the taking effect of this act, and shall be subject to the same obligations and discharge the same duties in respect to such persons, except in so far as the same are inconsistent with or are modified by this act. The commissioner for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens shall within said boroughs have all the authority concerning the care, custody and disposition of such persons which the board of charities and correction of the city of Brooklyn and county of Kings as form |