CARE OF POOR- NORTH HEMPSTEAD AND OYSTER BAY. 463 said supervisors respectively, for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in them as such trustees. § 5. Any three or more of said trustees shall constitute a quorum to transact any of the business and concerns of the said trust. If any of the trustees of said fund, appointed by or chosen under this act, shall die, resign, or remove from said towns, the said trustees may appoint a person of like qualifications to fill his place for the residue of his term of office, who shall in like manner, as above provided, execute a bond, with sufficient sureties, to the supervisor of the town from whence he shall be chosen, for the faithful discharge of his duty as trustee. § 6. The said trustees shall make an annual and full report to each of the said towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, at the annual town meetings thereof, of the state of the funds and property of said trust, and of the manner in which the same has been managed, and the income thereof applied during the preceding year. § 7. The chancellor of this state shall have a supervisory power over said trustees and fund, and may remove any of said trustees for good cause shown, on petition or bill by any inhabitant of either of said towns. § 8. Each of said towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, may, by vote at their annual town meetings, fix and allow to said trustees and their successors or any of them, from their respective towns, such salary or compensation for their services as such towns may respectively think proper, and which said salary or compensation shall be raised and paid as other ordinary expenses of said town. § 9. This act shall be deemed a public act. AN ACT to enable the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead in the county of Nassau to provide the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor of the said towns, with the necessary funds to enable them to conduct the joint almshouse of the said towns. Chapter 239, Laws of 1916. Section 1. The supervisors of the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, shall insert in their annual budgets for their respective towns and cause to be raised by taxation each year, and pay over to the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor, an amount from each of the said towns, in proportion to the number of inmates from each such town, and which, added to the income of the trustees of the Jones fund, shall be sufficient to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining the almshouse for the said towns, with the inmates therein, for the current year. The said trustees shall make to the town board of Oyster Bay and to the town board of North Hempstead, a written report showing the deficiency or the surplus, as the case may be, resulting from the operation of the previous year and estimating a sum which they deem necessary and appropriate for each town to contribute toward the cost of operating the almshouse for the ensuing year, and thereupon if the town board shall approve the estimate, it shall so certify in duplicate. One of the certificates shall be filed with the town clerk and the other shall be presented by the supervisor before the board of supervisors of the county at a meeting to be held on or before December twentieth in each year, and such board shall cause the amount of the deficiency, if any there be, and the estimate for the ensuing year to be levied and collected in the respective towns in the same manner as other town charges, to be paid to the trustees of the Jones fund for the purpose aforesaid. No part of the moneys raised by such towns shall be available for the purposes herein set forth until the trustees of such fund shall enter into an agreement with the supervisors of each such town that they will receive into such almshouse and care for any or all poor persons committed thereto by the proper town or county authorities. A copy of such agreement, signed by such trustees and supervisors, shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of such county and in the office of the town clerk of each such town. § 2. The supervisors of the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead are hereby authorized on the consent of the town boards of their respective towns to borrow upon temporary certifi cates of indebtedness for the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor such sums as the said trustees shall certify from time to time to be necessary in addition to the income of the said trustees to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining the almshouse with the inmates therein for the current year. Said temporary certificates of indebtedness shall not be issued for a longer time than eight months and shall not bear interest at more than six per centum per annum, and the faith and credit of the respective towns shall be pledged for their payment. The proceeds of said temporary certificates of indebtedness, subject to the provisions of section one of this act, shall be paid by the respective supervisors to the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor and be applied by said trustees to the purposes for which they were issued. The amounts so borrowed shall be included by the respective supervisors of the said towns in the next annual budget and levied and collected in the respective towns in the same manner as other town charges. § 3. Should there be a deficit in maintaining and operating the joint almshouse of the aforementioned towns up to and including December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, the trustees of the Jones fund for the support of the poor shall present satisfactory proof of the amount of such deficiency to the town boards of said towns, and such town boards are, respectively, authorized to borrow sufficient money to meet such deficit, and for that purpose they may issue temporary certificates of indebtedness for a period not exceeding twelve months, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum, pledging the faith and credit of their respective towns for the payment thereof, and the proceeds of the sale of such temporary certificates shall be applied to meet such deficiency. The amount of money so borrowed, shall be included by the respective supervisors of said two towns, in the annual budget for the succeeding year and levied and collected by taxation in the respective towns in the same manner as other town charges. Town of Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence County. (See chapter 28, Laws of 1882, which also governs the city of Ogdensburg, page 352.) Children's Courts-Probation. City of Buffalo. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," in relation to probation officers appointed by the police justice and the punishment of children convicted of certain offenses. Chapter 50, Laws of 1908. § 1. Sections three hundred and eighty-four-b and three hundred and eighty-four-c of chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," as added thereto by chapter six hundred and twenty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, and amended by chapter five hundred and forty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows: § 384-b. Probation officers. The police justice shall have authority to appoint or designate discreet persons of good character to serve as probation officers during the pleasure of the police justice. Whenever any child under or apparently under the age of sixteen years shall have been arrested, it shall be the duty of said probation officers to make such investigation as may be required by the court, to be present in court in order to represent the interests of the child; when the case is heard to furnish to the police justice such information and assistance as he may require, and to take charge of any child before and after trial as may be directed by the court. § 384-c. Whenever any such child is found guilty or pleads guilty to the commission of any offense described in section two hundred and ninety-one of the penal code or of any crime or misdemeanor before the police justice, the said police justice may in his discretion suspend sentence during the good behavior of the child so convicted. The child so convicted may be placed in the care of said probation officer for such time not to exceed one year and upon such conditions as may seem proper. Such time may be extended one or more additional terms, not exceeding three months each, by the police justice in his discretion. Said probation officers shall have the power to bring the child so convicted before the police justice at any time during the probation for such disposition as may be just. When practicable said child shall be placed with a probation officer of the same religious faith as that of the child's parents. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," in relation to establishing the children's court of Buffalo, defining its powers and jurisdiction and providing for its officers. Chapter 651, Laws of 1911. § 1. Chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new title, to be title twenty-five, and to read as follows: TITLE XXV. The Children's Court of Buffalo. § 510. Court established. The children's court is hereby created and established with the criminal jurisdiction hereinafter provided. § 511. Judge. There shall be one judge of said court. He shall not be allowed to hold any other public office or carry on any business, but shall devote his whole time and capacity, so far as public interests demand, to the duties of his office. There § 512. Election and qualification of judges. shall be elected at the general election in nineteen hundred and eleven a judge of this court for the term of ten years and his successors shall be elected for a like term of ten years. Any resident elector of the city of Buffalo shall be eligible to election. |