Commispioners of

Chap, 481.
AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of the

Land Office to sell certain real estate, escheated
to the State, in the town of Jerusalem, Yates
county.

Passed April 30, 1868 ; by a two-thirds vote.
The People of the State of New York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. The Commissioners of the Land Office are the land of- hereby authorized to sell and convey, at private conrized to sell tract and sale, all the right, title and interest of the Jerusalem. People of the State of New York, of, in and to the

premises situate in the town of Jerusalem, Yates county,
which escheated to the State on the death of John L.
Alcooke, on such terms as shall be for the best interest
of the State. The premises shall not be sold for a less
sum than fifty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents per

At least one-third part of the purchase price
shall be paid in cash when the certificate of sale is made.
If any part of the price is unpaid when the grant is exe-
cuted, the payment of it, with interest at the rate of
seven per centum per annum, shall be secured by a
mortgage on the premises.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Price per

acre.

Terms of sale.

acre.

Chap. 482.
AN ACT authorizing any Life Insurance Com-

pany, or any Trust or Loan Company to invest
their funds in bonds issued by any county,
town or village of this State, pursuant to any
law of this State.

Passed April 30, 1868.
The People of the State of New York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. Any life insurance company, or any trust
or loan company, may, by the direction and consent of

two-thirds of their respective boards of directors, mana-

gers or finance committee purchase, or invest, by loan or

otherwise, any of their funds in the bonds issued by any

county, town or village of this State, pursuant to any

law of this state, anything in the charter of either of said

companies to the contrary, notwithstanding.

$ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 483.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An act to

incorporate the Inebriates' Home for Kings

county," passed May ninth, eighteen hundred

and sixty-seven.

Passed April 30, 1868.

The People of the State of New York, represented in

Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. Section four of the act entitled "An act to

incorporate the Inebriates' Home for Kings county,'

passed May ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is

hereby amended so as to read as follows:

$ 4. The Treasurer of the Board of Excise, in and for Metropoli-

the Metropolitan Police District of the State of New tan Excise
York, shall pay to the treasurer of the said " Inebriates' pay $200,-
Home," the sum of two hundred thousand dollars of the "Ine.
first moneys hereafter received by said board of excise, Hotne.",
for licenses granted under said excise law to persons car-
rying on business in the county of Kings, which amount
is hereby appropriated to said " Home,” to be applied to noney to
the erection and furnishing of suitable buildings for the towards
same, and improving the grounds belonging thereto, and buildings

,
no other purpose. After the payment to said “Home” etc.
of the said sum of two hundred thousand dollars, the
treasurer of said board of Excise shall pay annually Excise
thereafter to the treasurer of said “ Home,” the sum of Board to
ten thousand dollars, out of the excise money as afore- Home
said, to be applied to the maintenance of the same, and nually
for no other purpose. All fines hereafter collected for
violations of said excise law, in the county of Kings, lected for
shall be paid to the treasurer of said "Home,” in the violation or

to

briate's

be applied

in Kings

lo

"Ilome."

statement
to treas-
urer of
“Home”

Justices of supreme

bitual drunkards 10 "Inebriate's Home.”

manner hereinafter stated. The justices of the peace be paid is of the city of Brooklyn, and police justices and justices

in the towns in Kings county, are hereby required to pay to the treasurer of said " Home," quarter yearly, all mo

neys received by them for violations of any of the proJustices of visions of this act. Such payment shall be accompanied talne police by a detailed statement, showing the separate amounts justices to received by them, from whom received, the date when quarterly received, and the residence of the party, so far as the

same can be ascertained by his examination, and that of the officer making the arrest, which statement shall be verified by the oath of the justice. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be guilty

of a misdemeanor. Repeal. § 2. Section seven of said act is hereby repealed.

§ 3. Section three of said act is hereby amended by adding thereto as follows:

The justices of the supreme court, in the exercise of court may their jurisdiction, within the county of Kings, shall have

power to commit to said “Inebriate Home," for a term not to exceed one year, all persons who, being actual inhabitants of the said county, shall be incapable or unfit for properly conducting their own affairs, in consequence of habitual drunkenness.

§ 4. Such commitment shall be made by any of said justices, in any case where the facts referred to in the last preceding section of this act shall be made to appear by petition or complaint, duly verified and presented by any relative of such habitual drunkard, or by any officer of said “Home," or any officer of the Metropolitan Police doing duty within said county, and upon return of a commission issued upon such petition or complaint.

§ 5. Upon the presentation of such petition or complaint, the justice to whom the same shall be presented, shall proceed thereupon in the same manner as is directed in title two of chapter five, of part two of the Revised Statutes of the State of New York, in relation to the care and custody of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, persons of unsound mind, and drunkards, and according to the rules and practice of the supreme court in such cases.

$ 6. Upon becoming satisfied by return of a commis

Proceedings under which com. mitments shall be made.

Ibid.

Commit

modified.

ments

pending

sion, as heretofore provided, that any person is an habit- ment not to ual drunkard, and incapable, in consequence thereof, of one year. conducting his or her own affairs, said justice shall have power, in his discretion, to issue his warrant, committing the person so found to be an habitual drunkard to the custody of the said “Home," to be detained in the said "Home" for such period, not exceeding one year, as the said justice may dcem proper, and such warrant shall be executed by any member of the Metropolitan Police. Any such warrant, duly issued, shall be full and suffi. cient justification for all acts done by any properly authorized officer, under and in accordance therewith. Such order of commitment may at any time be vacated der ot.comor modified by any justice of the supreme court, on cause may be vashown.

7. Any justice before whom proceedings may be commitpending, under the provisions of this act, may, after he made 18 filing of any complaint, and when in his judgment the Mame in circumstances of the case render it proper to do so, com- vestigation mit the person charged with being an habitual drunkard sion. to the said “Home," while proceedings on such complaint are pending, and all persons so temporarily committed shall be discharged from said "Home," if, on return of a commission, it shall be determined that they are not proper persons to be detained.

$ 8. The estate of any person committed to such cost of sup“ Home," and the person committed, shall be liable for port of per

mitted ; the support of such person therein, and the committee howedo be of every such person shall pay out of his estate such paid. reasonable and proper sum as shall be fixed by the justice ordering the commitment.

§ 9. In the erection of the buildings provided for in Voluntary the first section of this act, suitable and proper provis- be kept ions shall be made for keeping those who may enter from per said “Home” voluntarily, separate and apart from those sans who who may be transferred to said “Home” from the jail committed. or penitentiary. Suitable provision shall also be made Sexes to be for keeping the sexes separate and apart. There shall kept apart. be provided, also, a suitable chapel for religious services, Religious which shall be equally free to all religious denominations.

§ 10. The money appropriated by the first section of Money for

inmates

have been

services.

building

without

cers.

this act to be applied to the erection and furnishing of expended suitable buildings for said "home," and improving the yanetion or grounds belonging thereto, shall not be expended unless certain offi- sanctioned by the mayor and city judge of the city of

Brooklyn, and the county judge of the county of Kings,

in conjunction with the executive committee of said Trusters of "home," who shall approve of all plans, specifications, tion to ap- and contracts relating to the erection and furnishing said plans, con buildings and improving said grounds. And the officers tracts, etc. herein named are hereby declared to be members and

trustees of said corporation by virtue of their offices, and invested with all the powers of the original incorporators.

11. The president of said home shall, in the month of legislature. January in each year, report to the Legislature the doings

of said home for the preceding year, which report shall state the amount of money received and on hand, the sources from whence received, the amount expended and for what expended, the number received into and discharged therefrom, together with such other information

as may be deemed of general interest. Jas. S. T. § 12. James S. T. Stranahan is hereby made one of appointed a the incorporators and trustees of the said inebriates'

home, in the place of George Hall, deceased.

§ 13. This act shall take effect immediately.

Annual re

Report; what to slate.

Stranahan

trustee.

Chap 484.
AN ACT to close Eleventh street, in the city of

Brooklyn, and to construct à canal in the place
thereof.
Passed April 30, 1868 ; three-fifths being present.

T'he People of the State of New York, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. Eleventh street, in the city of Brooklyn, is hereby closed from the northwest side of Second avenue to the Gowanus canal.

§ 2. The commissioners for improving Gowanus canal appointed by the act entitled “An act to improve the Gowanus canal in the city of Brooklyn,” passed April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and their

Closing of Eleventh street.

Commis. sioners to construct canal therein.