Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, $121.701.22; ordinary expenditures including $759.75 returned to the State Treasurer pursuant to the provisions of law, $8,298.42; extraor dinary expenditures, $111,540.54; total expenditures, $119,838.96; balance on hand October 1, 1904, $1,862.26.

Terms and qualifications for admittance.-Free to patients unable to pay, if citizens of the State for at least one year preceding the date of application. The trustees shall have authority to fix the charges to be paid by those able to pay for their care and treatment; but the preference shall always be given to the indigent.

Application to be made by free patients to the local authorities of his or her town, city or county having charge of the relief of the poor. Private patients apply to the superintendent of the institution.

ALBANY COUNTY-PUBLIC RELIEF.

COUNTY, CITY AND TOWN POOR LAW OFFICERS.

Board of Supervisors.

Chairman, Peter Walker, Dunnsville. Clerk, Luther C. Warner, 93 State street, Albany.

City of Albany.

First Ward.-Philip Wolfstich, 156 Broad street.
Second Ward.-Peter J. Kresser, 50 Clinton street.
Third Ward.--John J. McGuire, 35 Westerlo street.
Fourth Ward.--William Hummel, 77 Westerlo street.
Fifth Ward.-James H. Cahill, 139 Grand street.
Sixth Ward.-William F. Burnham, 51 State street.
Seventh Ward.-William E. Caswell, 211 Clinton avenue.
Eighth Ward.-Patrick F. White, 119 Livingston avenue.
Ninth Ward.-John J. Peacock, 3 Emmet street.
Tenth Ward. Henry E. Braum, 29 Bradford street.
Eleventh Ward.—William C. Jordan, 125 Northern
boulevard.

Twelfth Ward.-Edward J. Patterson, 230 Orange street.
Thirteenth Ward.-Arthur Banfill, 293 State street.
Fourteenth Ward.-Lansing I. Platt, 20 High street.
Fifteenth Ward.--John J. Tommaney, 91 Charles street.
Sixteenth Ward.-George D. Albee, 275 Elm street.
Seventeenth Ward.-Isaac I. Truax, 24 Quail street.
Eighteenth Ward.-William Schramm, 8 Maple avenue.
Nineteenth Ward.-Frank Scheuer, 95 West street.
Town of Berne.---Wallace A. Peasley, Rensselaerville.
Bethlehem.—Edward J. Bedell, Selkirk.
Coeymans.-Leonard A. Carhart, Coeymans.

City of Cohoes.—

First Ward.-Malachi McGinnis, 19 Division street.
Second Ward.-Alcide Berthelot, 36 Sargent street.

City of Cohoes.

Third Ward.-Henry Bourgeois, 228 Remsen street.
Fourth Ward.-L. Napoleon Marcil, 160 Congress street.
Fifth Ward.-Alexander Arthur, 20 Broadway.

Sixth Ward.-Moise A. Granger, 25 River street.
Town of Colonie.-John P. McNab, Cohoes R. F. D.
Green Island.-Carroll Coon, Green Island.
Guilderland.-Peter Walker, Dunnsville.
Knox.-Charles W. Schoonmaker, Berne.

New Scotland.-Albert Van Derpoel, New Salem.
Rensselaerville.--Jacob B. Norwood, Preston Hollow.

City of Watervliet.—

First District.-Frederick T. Hathaway, 721 Fourth

avenue.

Second District.-Andrew Armstrong, 1316 Fifth avenue.
Third District.-Cornelius T. Murphy, 2512 Fourth

avenue.

Town of Westerlo.-George W. Taylor, Westerlo.

Overseers of the Poor.

City of Albany.-Department of Charities and Correction, established by chapter 182 of the Laws of 1898. Com

missioner of Charities and Correction.-William H. Storrs. Overseer of the Poor.-Early Reed.

Town of Berne.-Eugene Pitcher, East Berne; Francis Moak,
Berne.

Bethlehem. David I. Winne, Kenwood; William J.
Schoonmaker, Selkirk.

Coeymans. Judson A. Bouton, Ravena; Proctor Cole,
Jerusalem.

City of Cohoes.-John E. Mincher, 70 Hart street, Cohoes.
Town of Colonie.-Daniel Rockenstyre, Newtonville.

Green Island.-Samuel C. Miller, Green Island.

Guilderland.-Peter Gade, Guilderland; John Moore,

Fullers Station.

Knox.-Grant Truax, Knox.

Town of New Scotland.-Charles Allen, Clarksville; James H.
Hallenbeck, New Salem.

Rensselaerville.-David Whitbeck, Potters Hollow;
Benjamin D. Babcock, Rensselaerville.

City of Watervliet.-Department of Charities, established by chapter 905 of the Laws of 1896. Commissioner.—

Peter Murphy, Watervliet.

Town of Westerlo.-Elsworth Applebee, Dormansville; Jefferson T. Hannay, South Westerlo.

CITY AND COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.

ALBANY CITY AND COUNTY ALMSHOUSE, Albany, N. Y.

Inspected by Inspector Hill October 23, November 9, 1903; by Inspector Rogers June 25, 27, 1904.

Keeper. William II. Storrs, appointed January 1, 1902. Attached to the almshouse are 80 acres of land, 60 of which are reported to be under cultivation; value of land and buildings, $200,000; estimated value of the labor of inmates during the year, $130.

Expenses in connection with the almshouse for the year ending September 30, 1904, $33,749.91; estimated weekly expense per person, $2.35; expense of temporary (outdoor) relief administered by the overseers of the poor, $19,728.99; expense of support in whole or in part in institutions other than the almshouse, $95,359.74; aggregate expenditures for support and relief, $148.838.64.

Total number in the almshouse during the year, 410; remaining October 1, 1904, 191 (121 males and 70 females), including 21 feeble-minded or idiotic, 2 epileptic, 2 deaf and 2 blind persons; number receiving temporary (outdoor) relief, 6,987; num ber supported in whole or in part in other institutions, 2,525; total number supported and relieved during the year, 9.922.

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STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION.

Central Office, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York City. (See New York County.)

The following is the visiting committee for Albany County; Mrs. J. A. Lintner, President, 96 South Hawk street, Albany; Miss E. A. Dempsey, 26 South Hawk street, Albany; Mrs. William L. Learned, 298 State street, Albany; Mrs. George D. Miller, 125 State street, Albany; Mrs. Bleecker Sanders, 27 South Hawk street, Albany.

Albany County-Private Charity.

DISPENSARIES.

ALBANY CITY FREE DISPENSARY ASSOCIATION,
Ash Grove Place, corner Trinity Place, Albany, N. Y.
Inspected by Inspector Prest June 9, 1904.

Established September 13, 1897; incorporated October 25, 1897; licensed January 30, 1900.

Object. To provide and maintain a free medical and surgical dispensary in the city of Albany, N. Y.

Governing Body.-Board of Directors.

President.-T. Howard Lewis, 395 State street, Albany. Secretary.-W. H. Happell, M. D., 182 State street, Albany. Treasurer. Edward N. Huyck, 102 Chestnut street, Albany. President medical staff.-Willis G. Macdonald, M. D., 27 Eagle street, Albany.

Registrar.-Miss Pearl Winn.

Number of different persons treated at the dispensary during the year, 1,062; total number of treatments, 3,791; number of prescriptions dispensed, 2,039.

Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, including balance on hand ($2.273.70), $6,316.70; expenditures, $6,031.65; balance on hand October 1, 1903, $285.05.

Terms of treatment.-Free to the worthy sick poor.
Application to be made to the registrar at dispensary.