of trustees shall consist of seven residents of The City of New York, together with the commissioner of public charities, ex officio. It shall be known as the "Board of Trustees of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals." In the month of January, nineteen hundred and two, the mayor of The City of New York shall appoint one resident of The City of New York to serve as such trustee for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, one for the term of four years, one for the term of five years, one for the term of six years and one for the term of seven years, from the first day of February, nineteen hundred and two. In the month of January and on or before the twentieth day thereof, prior to the expiration of the term of office of any trustee, the mayor shall appoint his successor for the full term of seven years. The mayor shall fill any vacancy in the board caused by the death of a trustee, his resignation, removal from the city or otherwise, by the appointment of a trustee to hold office for the unexpired term. Every person appointed to serve as such trustee shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of the state.

2. For the purpose of making the appointments aforesaid, the said mayor shall call upon the president or other executive head of each of the following organizations, to wit: The United Hebrew Charities of The City of New York, the Particular Council of New York of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in New York, and the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, to present a list of not less than twice the number of persons to be appointed members of said board of trustees, to fill a vacancy or otherwise. Notice in writing of the dates on which appointments, including the first, to said board of trustees are proposed to be made shall be given by the mayor to each of said presidents or other executive heads at least ten days prior thereto, and such list of names shall be so presented within three days after the receipt of such notice. Said presidents or other executive heads may each submit, or two or more of them may jointly present, such a list of names. Appointments to said board of trustees may in the discretion of the mayor be made from such list or lists.

3. No trustee shall be subject to removal under the provisions of section ninety-five of this act, but any trustee may be removed by the mayor upon proof either of official misconduct or neglect of duty or of conduct which tends to discredit his office or for mental or physical inability to perform his duties, but before such removal he shall receive due and timely notice in writing of the charges and a copy thereof, and shall be entitled to a hearing on like notice before the mayor and to the assistance of counsel on said hearing. No trustee shall receive pecuniary compensation for his services or be interested directly or indirectly in the furnishing or performing of work, labor, services, materials or supplies of any kind to or for said hospitals by contract or otherwise. No trustee shall hold any office of emolument under the city, county, state or national government, except the offices of notary public, or commissioner of deeds, or officers in the national guard.

4. The commissioners of the sinking fund of The City of New York shall within thirty days after the passage of this act prepare a plan for the separation from the department of public charities of the said Bellevue hospital, and the Fordham, Harlem, Gouver neur and Emergency hospitals. Such plan shall apportion to each of said hospitals the lands, buildings, fixtures, furniture and other appurtenances and property, and the books, records, vouchers and other papers hitherto used in connection with or for the purposes of said hospitals, and provide in detail for the transfer thereof to said board of trustees of Bellevue and allied hospitals on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and two. It shall further apportion to each of said hospitals, the employees and subordinates of every grade in the service of the department of public charities who shall be in service in and about the said hospitals exclusively on said date. To enable said commissioners to prepare such plan, they shall have access to all of the books and papers which are the property of The City of New York in the custody of said department of public charities, and to visit said hospitals, and to require at any and all times the attendance before them of the commissioner of public charities and of any of his employees and subordinates.

5. Said board of trustees shall organize within ten days after said trustees are appointed. It shall annually choose from its members, at a regular meeting to be held in the month of February, a president and a secretary for the term of one year. It shall establish rules and regulations for the administration and government of said hospitals. It shall administer the moneys appropriated for said hospitals, subject to the general provisions of this act relative to the audit and payment of claims. Said board shall have power to appoint and at pleasure to remove such superintendents, medical officers, subordinate officers and other employees as may be necessary for the efficient management and conduct of said hospitals, subject to the civil service laws and the rules and regulations of the municipal civil service commission. The board of trustees shall keep accurate and detailed accounts, in a form approved by the comptroller, of all moneys received and expended by it, the sources from which they are received and the purposes for which they are expended. It shall during the month. of January in each year transmit to the mayor a report as to the condition of the hospitals under its care and the management thereof during the year ending the preceding thirty-first day of December.

6. The medical board of Bellevue hospital, and allied hospitals, shall be composed of the attending and consulting physicians and surgeons of said hospitals on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and two. They and such successors as the board of trustees may appoint shall serve without pecuniary compensation, and shall hold office so long as they shall perform their duties in a manner satisfactory to the said board of trustees. Vacancies occurring in said medical board shall be filled by the said board of trustees by appointment from the medical profession in The City of New York. The said board of trustees shall, on nomination of the said medical board, appoint medical and surgical house officers to the said hospitals, all of whom shall serve without pecuniary compensation.

7. Any person injured or taken sick in the streets or in any public square or place within The City of New York, who may not be safely removed to his or her home, may be sent to and shall be

received in the said hospitals for temporary care and treatment, irrespective of his or her place of residence. The said board of trustees shall provide and maintain suitable rooms or wards for the reception, medical examination and temporary care of persons alleged to be insane.

8. The said board of trustees may permit the reception and treatment in the said hospitals, of persons who do not reside in The City of New York, provided that every person so receiving treatment shall be required to pay such sum for board and attendance as may be fixed by said board of trustees, and provided that no such persons shall be received to the exclusion of patients who reside in said city. The said board of trustees shall collect and pay over all such moneys to the chamberlain once every month, and the amount so collected shall be paid into the general fund. The said board of trustees shall, upon making such payments to the chamberlain, report the same to the comptroller of The City of New York.

9. The board of estimate and apportionment and the board of aldermen shall in each year appropriate such sum as in their judgment may be necessary for the support and maintenance of said hospitals. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees thereof to send to the board of estimate and apportionment, on or before the first day of September in each year, an estimate in writing of the sum needed for the ensuing year in the same manner and general form as the heads of departments and other boards of The City of New York are required to furnish.

10. Whenever any sick person in Bellevue or other hospitals hereinbefore mentioned shall, in the judgment of the board of trustees, cease to be a proper case for treatment therein, said board may cause such person to be transferred to the care, custody and control of the commissioner of public charities, who shall forthwith receive and care for such person. In case any sick person under treatment in any of said hospitals shall die while under the care of the board of trustees, the latter, by their properly desig nated officer or employee, may call upon the commissioner of public charities forthwith to receive and remove the body of such person, and it shall thereupon be the duty of such commissioner

forthwith to receive and remove the same for burial or other proper disposition. The cost and expense of such reception, removal, burial or other proper disposition shall be borne and paid by the department of public charities.

11. In order that suitable trained nurses for the sick in Bellevue and other hospitals may be provided, the board of trustees of Bellevue and allied hospitals shall have power, subject to the approval of the mayor of the city of New York as to terms and conditions, to enter into a contract or contracts with the Bellevue training school for nurses for the occupation and use of any building or buildings as a training school for nurses, for the purpose of continuing, improving and increasing its service in supplying to Bellevue and other hospitals trained nurses for the sick in said hospitals. (Added by chapter 153 of the Laws of 1906.)

AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, in relation to ambulance service.

Chapter 395, Laws of 1909.

Section 1. Chapter thirteen of the Greater New York charter, as re-enacted by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended by inserting therein a new title, to be title four thereof, which shall contain a new section to be section six hundred and ninety-three-a, to read as follows:

TITLE IV.

Board of Ambulance Service.

§ 693-a. 1. The commissioner of police, the commissioner of public charities, the president of the board of trustees of Bellevue and allied hospitals and two citizens appointed by the mayor, shall constitute a board, which shall be known as the "Board of ambulance service." The commissioner of police shall be the president of the board; the commissioner of public charities shall be the secretary thereof. The board may appoint such employees within the limits of the appropriation made therefor as it may find necessary in the performance of its duties. Said board shall:

Exercise general control over and establish rules and regulations governing all ambulance service in the city of New York,