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superintendent of any such hospital established by any other county, for the admission of such patient. Any person residing in a county in which there is no such hospital, who desires to receive treatment in such a hospital, may apply therefor in writing to the superintendent of the poor of the county in which he resides on a blank to be provided by said superintendent for that purpose, submitting with such application a written certificate signed by a reputable physician on a blank to be provided by the superintendent of the poor for such purpose, stating that such physician has, within the ten days next preceding, examined such person, and that, in his judgment, such person is suffering from tuberculosis. The superintendent of the poor, on receipt of such application and certificate, shall forward the same to the superintendent of any hospital for the care and treatment of tuberculosis. If such patient be accepted by such hospital, the superintendent of the poor shall provide for his transportation thereto, and for his maintenance therein at a rate to be fixed as hereinafter provided.

§ 49-c. Maintenance of patients from counties not having a hospital. Whenever the superintendent of such a county hospital, shall receive from a superintendent of the poor of any other county an application for the admission of a patient, if it appear from such application that the person therein referred to is suffering from tuberculosis, the superintendent shall notify said person to appear in person at the hospital, provided there be a vacancy in such hospital and there be no pending application from a patient residing in the county in which the hospital is located. If, upon personal examination of the patient, the superintendent is satisfied that such patient is suffering from tuberculosis, he shall admit him to the hospital. Every patient so admitted shall be a charge against the county sending such patient, at a rate to be fixed by the board of managers, which shall not exceed the per capita cost of maintenance therein, including a reasonable allowance for interest on the costs of the hospital; and the bill therefor shall, when verified by the superintendent of the poor of the county from which said patient was sent, be audited and paid by the board of supervisors of the said county. The said superintendent of the poor shall cause an investigation to be made into

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the circumstances of such patient, and of his relatives legally liable for his support, and shall have the same authority as an overseer of the poor in like circumstances to collect therefrom, in whole or in part, according to their financial ability, the cost of the maintenance of such person in said hospital.

§ 49-d. Visitation and inspection. The resident officer of the hospital shall admit the managers into every part of the hospital and the premises and give them access on demand to all books, papers, accounts and records pertaining to the hospital and shall furnish copies, abstracts and reports whenever required by them. All hospitals established or maintained under the provisions of sections forty-five to forty-nine-e, inclusive, of this chapter, shall be subject to inspection by any duly authorized representative of the state board of charities, of the state department of health, of the state charities aid association and of the board of supervisors of the county; and the resident officers shall admit such representatives into every part of the hospital and its buildings, and give them access on demand to all records, reports, books, papers and accounts pertaining to the hospital.

§ 49-e. Hospitals at almshouses. Wherever a hospital for the care and treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis exists in connection with, or on the grounds of a county almshouse, the board of supervisors may, after sections forty-five to fortynine-e of this chapter take effect, appoint a board of managers for such hospital and such hospital, and its board of managers, shall thereafter be subject to all the provisions of this act, in like manner as if it had been originally established hereunder. Any hospital for the care and treatment of tuberculosis which may hereafter be established by any board of supervisors shall be subject to all the provisions of said sections. No hospital authorized under the provisions of this chapter shall hereafter be located on the grounds of an almshouse. (As amended by chapter 379 of the Laws of 1913.)

ARTICLE VI.

County Jails.

§ 99. Houses of detention for women, children and witnesses. The board of supervisors of any county, except the county of Kings, may procure, by lease or purchase, a suitable place or places, other than the jail, for the safe and proper keeping and care of women and children charged with crime not punishable by death or imprisonment in state prison for a term exceeding five years or with second offense, and persons detained as witnesses, to be termed houses of detention; and when so provided, any magistrate in the county shall commit women and girls, and boys under sixteen years of age, and all persons held as witnesses thereto, instead of the jail. The sheriff shall have the same charge and control of such house, and shall be entitled to the same compensation for the care and keeping of prisoners therein, as in the county jail.

§ 100. County work-houses. The board of supervisors of any county may establish and maintain a work-house for the confinement of persons convicted within the county of crimes and criminal offenses, the punishment for which is imprisonment in the county jail, and may provide for the imprisonment and employment therein of all persons sentenced thereto, and any court or judicial officer may sentence such person to such work-house instead of to the county jail.

§ 101. Who may visit jails and work-houses. The following persons may visit at pleasure all county jails and workhouses: The governor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every minister of the gospel having charge of a congregation in the town in which such jail or work-house is located. No other person not otherwise authorized by law shall be permitted to enter the rooms of a county jail or work-house in which convicts are confined, unless under such regulations as the sheriff of the county shall prescribe.

ARTICLE XIII.

Superintendents of the Poor.

Section 220. Election, appointment and term of office of superintendents of the poor.

221. Undertaking.

§ 220. Election, appointment and term of office of superintendents of the poor. There shall continue to be elected or appointed in each of the counties, except Kings, Queens and Richmond, one or more superintendents of the poor as heretofore; but no supervisor of a town, or county treasurer, shall be elected or appointed to such office. The board of supervisors of any county having, or entitled to have three or more superintendents of the poor, may, at an annual meeting thereof, determine by resolution that thereafter only one county superintendent of the poor shall be elected; but no superintendent of the poor shall be elected or appointed in such county until the general election next preceding the expiration of the terms of the superintendents in office, or the office shall be vacant. The term of any superintendent in office, or of any person duly elected thereto on the passage of such resolution, shall not be affected thereby. Such board may also, in counties having and entitled to have but one superintendent of the poor, in like manner determine that thereafter three superintendents of the poor be elected for such county. After the passage of a resolution, as herein provided, the powers herein conferred shall not be again exercised within a period of five years. Such resolution shall not take effect until the next calendar year succeeding its adoption.

There shall continue,

1. To be elected annually in each of the counties so having and being entitled to three county superintendents, one county superintendent of the poor, who shall hold his office for three years from and including the first day of January succeeding his election, and until his successor is duly elected and qualifies;

2. To be appointed by the board of supervisors, if in session, otherwise by the county judge, a county superintendent of the poor, when a vacancy shall occur in such office, and the person

so appointed shall hold the office until and including the last day of December succeeding his appointment, and until his successor shall be elected and qualifies;

3. To be elected a county superintendent of the poor in a county when a vacancy shall occur in such office, and the term of which shall not expire on the last day of the next succeeding December, and the person so elected shall hold the office for such unexpired term, which shall be designated upon the ballots of the electors, or until his successor shall be elected and qualifies;

4. To be elected in each of the counties so having, and entitled to have but one superintendent, a superintendent of the poor, who shall hold his office for three years from and including the first day of January succeeding his election, and until his successor is duly elected and qualifies;

5. To be appointed by the board of supervisors, if in session, otherwise by the county judge, a superintendent of the poor, in a county having and being entitled to but one superintendent, when a vacancy shall occur in such office; and the person so appointed shall hold the office until and including the last day of December succeeding his appointment, and until his successor shall be elected and qualifies;

6. To be elected in the succeeding year after the board of supervisors of a county having but one superintendent of the poor, shall have adopted a resolution to have three superintendents, if the term of the superintendent in office expires with such year, three superintendents of the poor for such county, for the terms of one, two and three years respectively, which terms shall be respectively designated upon the ballots of the electors voting for such officers. If the term of the superintendent in office will not expire with such succeeding year, there shall be elected two superintendents of the poor for such county, for such terms, to be so designated upon the ballots of the electors voting for such officers, as will make the terms of one of the three superintendents expire with each succeeding year, and one superintendent of the poor shall thereafter be annually elected. Such persons so elected shall hold the office from and including the first day of January succeeding his election, and until and including the last day of December of the year in which his term shall so

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