troller shall make a tabulation of such statements and reports, provided for by section forty-eight of this chapter, in printed form, accompanied by comparative data and estimates of income, together with such comments and a statement of such other matters as he shall deem necessary and proper for the full comprehension of such tabulation, and shall transmit such tabulation to the governor immediately and to the legislature on the first day of its next session. Such tabulation so transmitted shall also contain a statement of all moreys required by the comptroller, together with the reasons therefor, for which any general or special appropriation is desired by him at the ensuing session of the legislature, together with such comparative and other data as the comptroller shall deem necessary and proper for the full comprehension of such last mentioned statement. (Added by chapter 149 of the Laws of 1910.)

§ 50. Separate specifications for contract work for the state. Every officer, board, department, commission or commissions charged with the duty of preparing specifications or awarding or entering into contracts for the erection, construction or alteration of buildings for the state, when the entire cost of such work shall exceed one thousand dollars, must have prepared separate specifications for each of the following branches of work to be performed:

1. Plumbing and gas fitting.

2. Steam heating, hot water and ventilating apparatus.

Such specifications must be so drawn as to permit separate and independent bidding upon each of such classes of work enumerated in the above subdivisions. All contracts hereafter awarded by the state, or a department, board, commission, commissioner or officer thereof, for the erection, construction or alteration of buildings or any part thereof, shall award the respective work specified in the above subdivisions separately to responsible and reliable persons, firms or corporations. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the authorities in charge of any state building from performing any such branches of work by or through their regular employees, or in the case of public institutions, by the inmates thereof.

(Added by chapter 514 of the Laws of 1912.)

State Industrial Farm Colony

AN ACT in relation to a farm and industrial colony for tramps and vagrants.

Chapter 812, Laws of 1911

Section 1. Establishment and purpose. A state industrial farm colony is hereby established for the detention, humane discipline, instruction and reformation of male adults committed thereto as tramps or vagrants.

§ 2. Board of managers; appointments; powers and duties. The said colony shall be under the control and management of a board of seven managers to be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate, in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-one of the state charities law. Such managers shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to their actual and necessary traveling expenses in the performances of their official duties. The governor shall have power to remove any member or members of the said board of managers for cause after an opportunity to be heard. The said board's control of the said colony shall include among other things: a. The election of the officers of the said board.

b. The appointment of a superintendent and such other employees as the said board shall deem proper.

c. The establishment and alteration of rules and regulations for the management of the said colony, including the classification, parole, discharge and retaking of inmates, and a system of compensation and credits, by marks or otherwise.

§ 3. The said board of managers shall ascertain whether any lands now owned by the state are suitable for use as a site for the said farm and industrial colony and available therefor. If the said board of managers shall find that any lands now owned by the state are suitable and available for such purpose, the state authorities having charge and control of such lands are hereby authorized, with the approval of the governor, to transfer said lands to the board of managers hereby established, and the said board shall thereupon cause such lands to be made ready for use

as a site for such farm and industrial colony. In case no lands now owned by the state are found to be suitable for said farm and industrial colony, the board of managers hereby established shall, with the approval of the governor, select a site therefor of not less than five hundred acres, and may enter into options in behalf of the state for the purchase of such lands at a price not to exceed sixty thousand dollars, and shall make full report thereon to the legislature on or before March first, nineteen hundred and twelve. The said board shall cause to be made by the state engineer and surveyor a map or maps of the lands selected, which shall be certified by a majority of them, and filed in the office of the secretary of state and duplicates thereof in the office of the clerk of the county wherein such lands are located. It shall be the duty of the said board to prepare such site as may be acquired for the use by the said colony, to provide a water supply and a system of drainage therefor, to determine what buildings are necessary to be erected thereon for the proper housing and educational and industrial training of not less than five hundred inmates and to act as a board of managers in the erection of said buildings and in the expenditure of the moneys herein or hereafter appropriated for the purchase and improvement of the said site. In all the work of construction and improvement, the labor of inmates of the said colony shall be employed wherever and so far as practicable.

§ 4. Commitment; term of detention. When the said. colony shall be ready to receive any inmates, the said board shall notify the several county clerks of all the counties of the state of that fact. It shall be the duty of the said county clerks immediately on receipt of the said official notification to transmit a copy thereof to each and all of the several courts in their respective counties and to each and all of the several justices of the supreme court and other judges, justices and magistrates, residing or sitting in their respective counties. Thereafter any such court or magistrate may commit to the said colony to be there detained under the provisions of this act any male over the age of twentyone who shall be adjudged by such court or magistrate to be a vagrant or tramp; but no person shall be so committed who shall

satisfy the said court or magistrate that he habitually supports himself through lawful employment. It is the intent and meaning of this act that reputable workmen, temporarily out of work and seeking employment, shall not be deemed tramps or vagrants nor be committed as such to the said colony, nor shall any person be committed to the said colony for any other cause than herein provided. Any person who shall be committed to the said colony shall be detained therein according to this act and not otherwise, anything in the penal law to the contrary notwithstanding. Such commitment shall not be for a definite term but any such male, at any time after his commitment, may be paroled, or discharged by the said board of managers, and shall not in any case be detained longer than two years and unless he shall since reaching the age of sixteen have been previously committed to a penal institution, he shall not be detained longer than eighteen months. If through oversight or otherwise any male be committed to the said colony for a definite period of time, such commitment shall not for that reason be void, but the person so committed shall be entitled to the benefit and subject to the liabilities of this act, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the commitment had been made according to the term prescribed by this act.

§ 5. Provisions of code of criminal procedure to be followed. In the commitment of tramps and vagrants to the state industrial farm colony the provisions of the code of criminal procedure with relation to such classes shall, so far as consistent with the provisions of this act, be observed and followed. Persons committed as vagrants shall be local charges as provided in such code, and those committed as tramps shall be maintained at the expense of the state as at present but in no event shall any locality be charged a greater amount for the care of vagrants than the actual per capita cost of their maintenance in such state industrial farm colony.

§ 6. Appropriation.

The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the purposes of this act.

AN ACT providing for the use for military purposes of the state lands at Beekman acquired for the Industrial Farm Colony.

Chapter 384, Laws of 1917.

Section 1. The land and premises situated in the town of Beekman in Dutchess county, owned by the state and acquired by the board of managers of the Industrial Farm Colony pursuant to chapter eight hundred and twelve of the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the state armory commission for the period of one year after the date this act takes effect for use for a mobilization camp and for other military purposes.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

State Reformatory for Misdemeanants

AN ACT to establish a state reformatory for misdemeanants. Chapter 502, Laws of 1912

Section 1. Establishment and purposes.

A state re

formatory for misdemeanants is hereby established for the reformation and the educational, industrial and moral instruction and training of males under conviction and sentence for commission of misdemeanors or other minor offenses.

§ 2. Board of managers. The general management and control of the said state reformatory for misdemeanants shall be in charge of a board of managers appointed pursuant to the provisions of the state charities law.

§ 3. Selection of site and construction. The said board shall proceed forthwith to select a site for the said reformatory and, upon the approval of the governor, to purchase such site. In the selection of the site, due consideration shall be given to healthfulness of location, fertility of soil, water supply, drainage and accessibility. It shall be the duty of the said board to prepare the grounds so purchased for use as a site for the said reformatory, to provide a water supply and system of drainage therefor, to determine what buildings are necessary to be erected thereon for the proper housing and educational and industrial training.