terms and conditions of admission thereto and the cause and. manner of expulsion therefrom. The board may require and take in its name any security by way of bond or otherwise from any person appointed or elected by it, for the faithful performance of his duties, and for truly accounting for all moneys or property received by him, for or on account of the board of trustees or in the performance of such duties. And the said board shall have power to organize and maintain a band, the same to be paid for out of the maintenance funds of the home, not exceeding six thousand dollars per annum. (As amended by chapter 32 of the

Laws of 1905.)

§ 42. Admission to home.-Every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who served in the army or navy of the United States during the late rebellion, who enlisted from the state of New York, or who shall have been a resident of this state for one year preceding his application for admission, and who shall need the aid or benefit of such home in consequence of physical disability or other cause within the scope of the regulations of the board, shall be entitled to admission thereto, subject to the conditions, limitations and penalties prescribed by the rules and regulations of the board.

§ 43. Transfer of inmates to state hospital.--Any soldier or sailor regularly admitted into the home found to be insane, may be transferred by an order of the president and secretary of the board of trustees and the superintendent of the home to any state hospital for the insane, there to remain at the expense of the home until legally discharged, and such expense shall be paid out of the maintenance fund of the home, at the same rate as is charged for the support of the county insane.

§ 44. Annual report. Such board shall, annually, on or before January fifteenth, make to the legislature a detailed report of all its receipts and expenditures and of all its proceedings for the previous year, with full estimates for the coming year verified by the president and treasurer.

(This chapter repealed chapter 48 of the Laws of 1878; also chapter 407 of the Laws of 1879.)

SALE OF ALE AND BEER AT THE NEW YORK STATE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' HOME, BATH.

AN ACT authorizing the sale of ale and beer upon the premises of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home of Bath, New York, and providing for the expenditure of the net proceeds therefrom.

Chapter 900, Laws of 1896.

Section 1. The trustees of the New York Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Bath, New York, upon complying with the provisions of chapter one hundred and twelve, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, of the state of New York, are hereby authorized to sell ale and beer to the members of said home, upon the premises of said home, under such rules and regulations as said trustees shall prescribe, and the provisions of clause one, section twenty-four and clause six of section thirty of said chapter one hundred and twelve of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetysix shall not apply to such New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home.

§ 2. The said trustees shall expend the net proceeds of such sales for the support of the library and reading room of said home and for such other purposes as they shall deem best for the comfort and amusement of the members of said home.

§ 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

EXEMPTED FROM THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.

AN ACT relating to the state board of charities and their control and management of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home.

Chapter 769, Laws of 1900.

Section 1. Soldiers and sailors' home exempted. The New York state soldiers and sailors' home is hereby exempted from the management and control of the state board of charities and in respect to said institution said board are hereafter only to exercise their constitutional right to visit and inspect.

§ 2. Repeal. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

NEW YORK STATE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS HOME, OXFORD.

AN ACT to provide for the establishment of a home for the aged and dependent veteran and his wife, veterans' mothers, widows, and army nurses, residents of New York.

Chapter 468, Laws of 1894.

Section 1. Establishment of home.-There shall be established in this state a home for the aged dependent veteran and his wife, veterans' mothers, widows, and army nurses, which shall be located within the state at a point which shall be determined as hereinafter provided, said home to be known as "New York State Woman's Relief Corps Home." (As amended by chapter 47 of the Laws of 1897.)

§ 2. Board of managers.-It shall be the duty of the governor within thirty days after the passage of this act, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint nine residents of the state, six of whom shall be women and three men, to constitute a board of managers of said home who shall hold office, three for two, three for four, and three for six years, respectively, as shall be indicated by the governor on making the appointment, and thereafter all appointments except to fill vacancies in said board shall be for six years and shall be made by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Whenever a vacancy occurs in said board after the expiration of a term of office or by resignation or removal or otherwise, the governor shall appoint a resident of the state to fill such vacancy, but when an appointment shall be made to fill an unexpired term, the governor shall so indicate at the time of making the appointment, and the person so appointed shall hold office only until the close of the unexpired term, and appointments shall be so made that there will be at all times six women and three men as members of said board. The male members of said board shall be at the time of their appointment members of the Grand Army of the Republic of the department of New York, and the female members shall be members

of the women's relief corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, department of New York.

§ 3. Official oath.-Before entering on their duties the said managers shall respectively take and subscribe to the usual oath of office, which oath may be taken and subscribed before the judge of any court of record of this state, or any notary public having a seal, and shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

§ 4. Compensation and expenses.-Said managers shall receive no compensation for their time of services, but the actual and necessary expenses of each of them while engaged in the performance of his or her office, and any expenses of said board incurred in the performance of the duties imposed by this act, on being presented in writing and verified by affidavit, shall be paid by the treasurer of said board of managers.

§ 5. Organization of board.-It shall be the duty of said board of managers immediately after their appointment to meet and organize by the election of a president, secretary and treasurer from their number. Said board when organized are directed to confer with the trustees of the New York Soldiers and Sailors' Home to ascertain whether any of the land now used by the said New York Soldiers and Sailors' Home can be made available for the purpose of erecting the home established by this act, and whether such lands, if any there be, are suitable for the purposes of said home. Said board is also directed to examine and make inquiry as to any other location within the state that may be available or suitable for the purposes of the home established by this act. And the said board is hereby empowered to contract for the purchase of any site that they may determine suitable, which said contract, however, shall be subject to the approval of the next legislature of this state; no contract for such purpose, however, shall be valid and binding on the state until the same shall have been duly approved by the next legislature.

§ 6. Report to legislature.-Said board of managers shall report the action which they have taken under the provisions of this act to the senate and assembly within ten days after the

organization of the legislature in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and they shall also prepare and submit with such report, for the consideration of the legislature, a statement of the cost of location or grounds required and a general plan for the construction of said home, together with an estimate of the cost of the same, and the cost and expense of maintaining the same.

§ 7. Purchase of site and erection of building.-Whenever any site shall have been selected, and contract for the purchase of the same made and approved by the legislature, and an appropriation for the payment thereof, and the erection of the buildings thereon made by the legislature of this state, it shall be the duty of said board of managers to purchase such site and to erect suitable buildings thereon for the care, maintenance and relief of aged dependent veterans and their wives, veterans' mothers, widows, and army nurses who, from any cause, need the care and benefits of a home, and to do all things necessary and requisite in the premises.

§ 8. Admission to home.—Whenever said lands shall have been purchased, buildings erected and said home ready for occupancy, every honorably discharged soldier or sailor who served in the army or navy of the United States during the late rebellion, or who enlisted from the state of New York, or who shall have been a resident of this state for one year preceding the application for admission, and the wives, widows and mothers of any such honorably discharged soldier or sailor, and army nurses who served in said army or navy and whose residence was at the time of the commencement of such service or whose residence shall have been for one year preceding his or her application for admission to said home, within the state of New York, or who shall need the aid or benefit of said home in consequence of physical disability or other cause within the scope of the regulations of the board, shall be entitled to admission to said home, subject to the conditions, limitations and penalties prescribed by the rules and regulations adopted by said board. Provided, however, said soldier or sailor shall be a married man and shall be accompanied or attended by his wife during the time he may be an inmate of said home, but