Location and name. Appoint ment, number and terms of office of managers. such manner as the said board shall direct, within periods not exceeding thirty nor less than five years. But no greater amount than ten thousand dollars of principal shall be payable in any one year. The said common council shall include in the annual tax list for said city an amount sufficient to meet the interest and any principal moneys that may fall due in each year, until said bonds, with interest, are fully paid. $ 3. The tax receiver of said city, or other officer or person into whose custody or under whose control the said bonds or the funds therefrom derived shall come, shall execute and deliver to the mayor of said city, bonds to be approved by said mayor for the faithful discharge of the duties and trusts created by this act, which bonds shall be filed with the clerk of said city before such officer shall enter upon his duties. $ 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 93. AN ACT to establish and organize the Hudson Passed March 16, 1867; three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. There shall be established near the city of Poughkeepsie, upon the site selected by the commissioners appointed to locate the Hudson River Asylum for the Insane, an institution to be designated as the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane. $ 2. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint nine managers for the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, designating at the time of such appointment, their respective terms of office, with reference to the following classification, to wit: three of said managers shall serve for four years, three for five years, and three for six years, from the time of their appointment; and they shall hold their offices until others are appointed in their stead, and shall be sub. ment of ject to be removed at any time by the Senate, upon the recommendation of the Governor. Their succes- Appoint sors shall be appointed by the Senate upon the successors. nomination of the Governor, and shall hold their offices for six years, and until others are appointed in. their stead, and subject to be removed in the manner aforesaid. The government of the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane shall be vested in the said board of managers, and a majority thereof shall reside within the county of Dutchess. powers. $3. The said managers shall have all the rights Rights and and powers and be subject to the same duties as are now possessed by and imposed upon the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica; and the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane shall be organized and governed under the laws organizing and governing the State Asylum at Utica, except as may be herein otherwise provided. Medical superin tendent, &c. $ 4. The managers shall appoint a medical super intendent, who shall be a well-educated physician of experience in the treatment of the insane, and a treasurer, who shall reside in the city of Poughkeepsie, and give bonds for the faithful performance of his trust, in such sum and with such sureties as the Comptroller of the State shall approve. They shall also appoint at their discretion and upon the nomination of the medical superintendent, a steward and a matron, and from one to three assistant physicians, as the necessities of the hospital shall from time to time require; all of whom, and the medical superintendent shall constantly reside in the hospital or on the premises, and shall be designated the resident officers. $5. The managers shall, from time to time, deter- Salaries. mine the annual salaries and allowances of the treasurer and resident officers, subject to the approval of the Governor of the State, Secretary of State, and the Comptroller; provided that such salaries shall not exceed, in the aggregate, ten thousand dollars for any one year. $6. The managers may adopt the plans for the Plans, &c. Willard Asylum at Ovid, or the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, or procure other plans, drawings and specifications, for the construction of the hospital Contracts for buildings, &c. Managers not to have interest in contracts. Payment of state treasurer. Reports of managers. Appropriation. and other buildings, and the improvement of the grounds, and shall contract for the erection of the buildings in accordance with such plans and specifications, and on such terms as they may deem proper, provided such plans, drawings, specifications, contracts, and the terms thereof, shall be approved by the Governor, Secretary of State and Comptroller, and further provided that the managers shall not adopt any plans for the hospital or other buildings that will not secure the building and finishing of at least one section, suitable for the treatment of patients, with the appropriation made in this act. S7. The managers and other officers shall have no interest, direct or indirect, in the furnishing of any building materials, or in any contracts for the same, or in any contracts for labor in the erection of said hospital. S8. The Treasurer of the State shall pay to the managers, on the warrant of the Comptroller, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum or sums of money as they may require for the building of said hospital, at such time as such money may be wanted therefor, in sums not exceeding ten thousand dollars at any one time; and the expenditure thereof shall be duly and fully accounted for to the Comptroller, with the vouchers and full details of the items and purposes, before any other sum shall be advanced. $9. It shall be the duty of the managers to make a detailed report of all the moneys received by them by virtue of this act, and of the progress which shall have been made in the erection of said buildings, to the legislature, in January of each year, and also to the Comptroller, as often and in such manner as the Comptroller shall or may from time to time require. $10. One hundred thousand dollars are hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying into execution the provisions of this act, but no expenditure shall be made, except for plans, till the final adoption of the plans and specifications for said hospital. S 11. The plans and specifications for said hospi tal shall be upon the basis of accommodating not exceeding five hundred patients at any one time. $12. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 94. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to alter and amend an act to incorporate the Greenwood Cemetery," passed April eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, in relation to the election of trustees. Passed March 16, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The act entitled "An act to alter and amend an act to incorporate the Greenwood Cemetery," passed April eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, is hereby amended by adding at the end of the second section thereof the words following, that is to say: "If at any such election one-third in number of the said proprietors shall not, in person or by proxy, vote thereat, then the trustees to be chosen shall be elected and chosen by the existing trustees, or a majority of them; and the said trustees of the Greenwood Cemetery, shall in all cases hold their places until their successors are elected and qualified. And if for any reason the election shall not be held and made on the day for that purpose appointed, then the same may be held and made on such day not exceeding sixty days thereafter, as may be appointed by the then existing board of trustees." $2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 95. AN ACT for the relief of the Moriah Plank-road Company, and repealing chapter seven hundred and seventy-six of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Passed March 16, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. In addition to the general provisions contained in chapter six hundred and twenty-six of the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, as amended by chapter four hundred and ninety-five of the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, it is hereby provided as to the town of Moriah, in the county of Essex, as follows: On the written application and request of any stockholders of the plank-road, located in said town of Moriah, made to the commissioner or commissioners of highways of said town, on any day in each year previous to the time of making the highway warrants by such commissioner or commissioners, it shall be their duty to assess the apportionment of highway labor of such stockholder or stockholders, in said town, upon said plank-road, to be worked or expended thereon as a separate road district, in the same manner as is provided by said chapter six hundred and twenty-six of the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in relation to persons owning property on the line of any plank-road in this State. S2. Said Moriah plank-road shall be free for the inhabitants of said town of Moriah, to travel over the same, except those traveling over said road with teams drawing loads, one or both ways, of more than five hundred pounds weight, exclusive of persons. S3. Chapter seven hundred and seventy-six of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby repealed. S4. This act shall take effect immediately. |