teachers in every college, school or university receiving any corpse under this section, shall dispose of the remains thereof, after they have served the purposes of medical, anatomical, or surgical science and study, in accordance with the regulations of the local board of health where the college, school or university is situated. Any person neglecting to comply with or violating any provision of this section, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every such noncompliance or violation thereof, and it shall be the duty of the health officer, or person performing his duties, in the places where said medical colleges, schools or universities are situated, whenever he shall have knowledge or information of any non-compliance with, or violation of, any provision, or provisions, of this section, to sue for and recover, in his name of office, the aforesaid penalty, and to pay over the amount so recovered, less the cost and expenses of the action, to the health board of said locality, for its use and benefit. (Added by chapter 302 of the Laws of 1896, and amended by chapter 667 of the Laws of 1900.) * ESTABLISHMENT OF HOSPITALS FOR CONSUMPTIVES. § 218a. Consents requisite to the establishment of hospitals or camps for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.-A hospital, camp or other establishment for the treatment of patients suffering from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis, shall not be established in any town by any person, association, corporation or municipality, unless the board of supervisors of the county, and the town board of the town, shall each adopt a resolution authorizing the establishment thereof, and describing the limits of the locality in which the same may be established. (Added by chapter 638 of the Laws of 1903.) ANTI-BUTTERINE LAW. AN ACT to prevent the use of butterine, oleomargarine or adulterated or imitation dairy products in certain institutions within this state. Chapter 364, Laws of 1893. Section 1. Expenditures for products, etc., forbidden.-No money appropriated by law for maintenance and support in * See also provisions of sections 140-142 of the General City Law, page 428. whole or in part of a state institution; nor money received by a charitable, benevolent, penal or reformatory institution from the state, or from a county, city or town thereof, or appropriated by such county, city or town for the maintenance or support in whole or in part of such institution; nor money belonging to or used for the maintenance or support of such institution, shall be expended for the purchase of, or in payment for, butterine, oleomargarine, lard cheese, or articles or products in imitation or semblance of natural butter or cheese produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream from the same, which articles or products have been rendered or manufactured in whole or in part from animal fats, or animal or vegetable oils not produced from unadulterated milk or cream from the same. § 2. Purchase, sale and use of products, etc., prohibited.-No officer, manager, superintendent or agent of an institution mentioned in the first section of this act, shall purchase for the use of such institution articles or products, for the purchase of which the money appropriated by law, or by a county, city or town, is forbidden to be used by this act, and no person shall sell to, or for the use of such institution, such articles or products. Nor shall such articles or products be used as articles of food or for cooking purposes in such institutions within this state. THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW. Chapter 272, Laws of 1896. * ARTICLE VI. THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN. Section 60. Definitions; effect of article. 61. Whose consent necessary. 62. Requisites of voluntary adoptions. 64. Effect of adoption. 65. Adoption from charitable institutions. 66. Abrogation of voluntary adoption. Section 67. Application in behalf of the child for abrogation of an adoption from a charitable institution. 68. Application by a foster parent for the abrogation of such an adoption. Section 60. Definitions; effect of article.-Adoption is the legal · act whereby an adult takes a minor into the relation of child and thereby acquires the rights and incurs the responsibilities of parent in respect to such minor. Hereafter, in this article, the person adopting is designated the "foster parent." A voluntary adoption is any other than that of an indigent child, or one who is a public charge from an orphan asylum or charitable institution. An adult unmarried person, or an adult husband or wife, or an adult husband and his adult wife together, may adopt a minor in pursuance of this article, and a child shall not hereafter be adopted except in pursuance thereof. Proof of the lawful adoption of a minor heretofore made may be received in evidence, and any such adoption shall not be abrogated by the enactment of this chapter and shall have the effect of an adoption hereunder. Nothing in this article in regard to an adopted child inheriting from the foster parent, applies to any will, devise or trust made or created before June twentyfifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, or alters, changes or interferes with such will, devise or trust, and as to any such will, devise or trust, a child adopted before that date is not an heir so as to alter estates or trusts, or devises in wills so made or created. § 61. Whose consent necessary.-Consent to adoption is necessary as follows: 1. Of the minor, if over twelve years of age; 2. Of the foster parents, husband or wife, unless lawfully separated, or unless they jointly adopt such minor; 3. Of the parents or surviving parent of a legitimate child, and of the mother of an illegitimate child; but the consent of a parent who has abandoned the child, or is deprived of civil rights, or divorced because of his or her adultery or cruelty, or adjudged to be insane, or to be an habitual drunkard, or judicially deprived of the custody of the child on account of cruelty or neglect, is unnecessary. 4. Of a person of full age having lawful custody of the child, if any such person can be found, where the child has no father or mother living, or no father or mother whose consent is necessary under the last subdivision. If such child has no father or mother living, and no person can be found who has the lawful custody of the child, the judge or surrogate shall recite such facts in the order allowing the adoption. § 62. Requisites of voluntary adoptions. In adoption the following requirements must be followed: 1. The foster parents or parent, the minor and all the persons whose consent is necessary under the last section, must appear before the county judge or the surrogate of the county where the foster parent or parents reside, and be examined by such judge or surrogate, except as provided by the next subdivision. 2. They must present to such judge or surrogate an instrument containing substantially the consents required by this chapter, an agreement on the part of the foster parent or parents to adopt and treat the minor as his, her, or their own lawful child, and a statement of the age of the child as nearly as the same can be ascertained, which statement shall be taken prima facie as true. The instrument must be signed by the foster parent or parents and by each person whose consent is necessary to the adoption, and severally acknowledged by said persons before such judge or surrogate; but where a parent or person or institution having the legal custody of the minor resides in some other country, state or county, his or their written acknowledged consent, or the written acknowledged consent of the officers of such institution, certified as conveyances are required to be certified to entitle them to record in a county in this state, is equivalent to his or their appearance and execution of such instrument. (As amended by chap. 498 of the Laws of 1899.) § 63. Order. If satisfied that the moral and temporal interests of the child will be promoted thereby, the judge or surrogate must make an order allowing or confirming such adoption, reciting the reasons therefor, and directing that the minor shall thenceforth be regarded and treated in all respects as the child of the foster parent or parents. Such order, and the instrument and consent, if any, mentioned in the last section must be filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk of such county. It is not required by the statute that the judge or surrogate shall witness by his signature the consent of the parties adopting the child; it is sufficient if the order recites that the parties appeared before him and that they signed the necessary consents. Supreme Court, December 30, 1891, People ex rel. Burns v. Bloedel, 42 N. Y. St. Rep. 453; 16 N. Y. Supp. 837. § 64. Effect of adoption.-Thereafter the parents of the minor are relieved from all parental duties toward, and of all responsibility for, and have no rights over such child, or to his property by descent or succession. Where a parent who has procured a divorce, or a surviving parent, having lawful custody of a child, lawfully marries again, or where an adult unmarried per son who has become a foster parent and has lawful custody of a child, marries, and such parent or foster parent consents that the person who thus becomes the stepfather or the stepmother of such child, may adopt such child, such parent or such foster parent, so consenting, shall not thereby be relieved of any of his or her parental duties toward, or be deprived of any of his or her rights over said child, or to his property by descent or succession. The child takes the name of the foster parent. His rights of inheritance and succession from his natural parents remain unaffected by such adoption. The foster parent or parents and the minor sustain toward each other the legal relation of parent and child and have all the rights, and are subject to all the duties of that relation, including the right of inheritance from each other, except as the same is affected by the provisions in this section in relation to adoption by a step-father or stepmother, and such right of inheritance extends to the heirs and next of kin of the minor, and such heirs and next of kin shall be the same as if he were the legitimate child of the person adopting, but as respects the passing and limitation over. of real or personal property dependent under the provisions of any instrument on the foster parent dying without heirs, the minor is not deemed the child of the foster parent so as to defeat the rights of remaindermen. (18 amended by chap. 408 of Laws of 1897. § 1.) § 65. Adoption from charitable institutions.-Where an orphan asylum or charitable institution is authorized to place children. |