said town; subject, however, to the direction of the board of alms and shall keep the vouchers, registers and accounts and charges required by law of overseers of the poor. He shall report to the board of alms quarterly and shall cause such report to be printed at least once in two newspapers of the village most nearly representing the two leading political parties, the names of all persons furnished and the amount to each person and family. And shall prepare annually a statement showing the names of all persons and families who have received relief and the amount to each person and family. No overseer of the poor shall be elected in said town of Herkimer after the passage of this act and the office of existing overseer of the poor shall become vacated by the present incumbent upon an appointment of an overseer of the poor, as provided in the first section of this act. (As amended by chapter 414 of the Laws of 1895.)

§ 10. The board of alms may audit and allow for their own services a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars to be apportioned among them as a majority may direct to be deemed expenses of administering the poor fund and to be raised as provided in section eight of this act. (As amended by chapter 414 of the Laws of 1895.)

§ 11. Nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as in any way to interfere with the power of the board of supervisors in relation to auditing the poor accounts of the county.

Town of Moriah, Essex County.

AN ACT providing for the appointment of a commissioner of charities, in and for the town of Moriah, in the county of Essex, and repealing chapter sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act to secure the better application of funds to relieve the poor in the town of Moriah, in the county of Essex."

Chapter 202, Laws of 1915.

Section 1. The town board of the town of Moriah, in the county of Essex, shall meet within twenty days after this act takes effect, at the town clerk's office in said town, and appoint by a majority vote a commissioner of charities in and for said town.

§ 2. Except as provided by this act, the said commissioner of charities shall have and exercise the same powers, discharge the same duties, to the exclusion of any other officer, as the overseer of the poor of a town, and shall be subject to the same obligations and limitations.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the said commissioner of charities to visit the poor of said town at their several places of abode and examine into their circumstances, and ascertain to what extent they are or may be in need and entitled to permanent, or temporary relief, or medical attendance.

The town board shall provide, for the use of said commissioner, office room, furniture, and necessary books of account and record, which office shall be open all week days at such hours as he may designate.

§ 4. Every application for relief shall be made to the commissioner of charities, who shall in all cases make a written order granting relief, or denying the same, briefly stating his reason therefor. Such order shall be in duplicate, one of which shall be delivered to the applicant. The commissioner shall insert in said order, if relief is granted, the person's name as drawee, on whom the applicant desires the order drawn, and shall specify the article or articles, and quantity thereof, and such orders shall not be transferable. All applications and duplicate orders shall be preserved, and shall be open for public inspection, and at the end of each month all such applications and duplicate orders shall be filed with the town clerk. No disbursement shall be made by the commissioner in behalf of any one family during a year in excess of fifty dollars without the approval of the town board.

5. The commissioner of charities, at the first regular meeting of the town board in each month, shall under oath report in detail to said town board all expenditures, temporary relief, medical attendance and allowance made by him as such commissioner during the month preceding, which report shall specify the name and abode of each person relieved, the amount of the order, for what, and upon whom the order was drawn.

§ 6. The commissioner of charities shall not directly, or indirectly, furnish to any person any groceries, provisions, fuel, medicines or property belonging to himself, or in which he shall have any interest, nor shall he receive any commission upon or for any article, or goods, or relief furnished or any orders given him for such goods or articles or relief furnished.

For any violation of any provision of this section said commissioner shall be removed from office by the town board of said town, and he shall forfeit to the town a penalty of one hundred dollars for every such violation.

§ 7. All charges and accounts against said town for services rendered, acts done, or means, provisions, and supplies furnished by the commissioner of charities under the provisions of this act, shall be made out in items, duly verified, with the duplicate order authorizing the same, and submitted to the town board of said town at the first regular meeting of said town board in each month. The said town board shall audit all claims, accounts and charges, and when so audited, the commissioner is authorized to pay and discharge the same by order upon the supervisor of said town, payable out of the poor fund of said town. Such accounts and charges, with the duplicate order presented therewith, the audit of the town board and the order of the commissioner on the supervisor shall, within one month after said audit, be filed with the town clerk, with the application for relief and duplicate order previously filed as aforesaid.

38. The moneys appropriated for the relief of the poor of said town shall be paid over to the supervisor of said town, and all payments and disbursements from said fund shall be made by him, only upon the order of the commissioner of charities after such audit as aforesaid.

$ 9. The commissioner of charities appointed by the said town board pursuant to this act shall hold office during the pleasure of the town board of said town. Vacancies in the office of commissioner of charities shall be filled by a majority vote of the town board of said town. The said town board shall determine the compensation for all services rendered by said commissioner of charities, such compensation, however, shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars per month.

§ 10. The said town board shall report through the supervisor of said town to the board of supervisors of the county of Essex, at their annual meeting each year, the amount of charges and expenses audited and paid for the relief of the poor in said town, and the said board of supervisors shall cause the same to be inserted in the tax lists and raised as other town charges are directed to be raised.

Nothing, however, contained herein shall prevent the expenditure of the sums received for excise licenses, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the relief of the poor of said town, if so directed by the town board of said town.

§ 11. Chapter sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An act to secure the better application of funds to relieve the poor of the town of Moriah, in the county of Essex," is hereby repealed.

§ 12. The office of overseer of the poor of the town of Moriah as it existed on and prior to the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, is hereby abolished.

§ 13. This act shall take effect immediately.

Towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, Nassau

County.

AN ACT to appoint trustees of the Jones fund, for the support of the poor of the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, in the county of Queens.*

Chapter 312, Laws of 1838.

Section 1. That Andrew C. Hegeman, Ebenezer Seely and James C. Townsend, freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Oyster Bay, and Benjamin Albertson and Singleton Mitchell, freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Jones fund, for the support of the poor in said towns, and shall hold their offices for two years from the first Tuesday of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and until others are appointed in *Now Nassau County.

their place; and they and their successors shall be denominated "The Trustees of the Jones Fund for the support of the poor; three of whom shall always be freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Oyster Bay and two of whom shall always be freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead.

§ 2. The freeholders and inhabitants of the said town of Oyster Bay, shall, at their annual town meeting, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and in every second year thereafter, choose by ballot three freeholders and inhabitants of the said town, who with two freeholders and inhabitants of the town of North Hempstead, to be chosen in like manner by ballot by the freehold ers and inhabitants of said town, at their annual town meeting, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and in every sec ond year thereafter, shall be trustees of said fund; and the persons so chosen shall hold their offices for two years, and until others are chosen in their places.

§ 3. The trustees of the said fund and their successors in office shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleaded and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever, by the name of "the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor," and they and their successors in office by the name aforesaid shall be capable in law of taking, holding and managing said fund or any part of the same, as was by the last wills and testaments of Samuel Jones and Walter R. Jones, deceased, devised and bequeathed to the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, for the purposes aforesaid, by the said testators, and shall also be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying, either by deed or mortgage, and real or personal estate for the use and benefit of said fund, and carrying the intent of the said testators in creating the same into full effect. (As amended by chapter 180 of the Laws of 1879, and chapter 229 of the Laws of 1880.)

§ 4. Each of the said trustees, and their successors, before entering upon the duties of the said trust, shall execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the supervisor of their respective towns, the amount of the said bond and said sureties to be approved by the