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month; all such claims, accounts and charges, shall, if approved, be audited by the common council, and paid from the poor fund of said city.

§ 184. Commissioners not to be interested in purchases. The commissioner of charities shall not, directly or indirectly, furnish to any person any groceries, provisions, fuel, medicines or property belonging to himself, or in which he shall have an interest or be interested, nor shall he receive any commission upon or for any goods or articles of relief furnished, or on any orders given by him for any such goods or articles or relief furnished. For any violation of any provision of this section, said commissioner shall be removed from office by the mayor, and he shall forfeit to said city a penalty of one hundred dollars for every such violation.

§ 185. Penalties. Any person to whom relief shall be furnished by the commissioner of charities, or the city physician, who shall sell or exchange any article or property so furnished, for intoxicating liquor, or for money, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person who shall exchange intoxicating liquor for any article so furnished as relief or charity, knowing the same to have been thus furnished to such person as a poor person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (As amended by chapter 551 of the Laws of 1911.)

§ 186. Liquor not to be sold to city poor. Any person who shall, either directly or indirectly, sell, or give away, to any person who is wholly or partially a charge upon the department of charities of the city, any intoxicating liquor, shall forfeit a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense, to be sued for and recovered by the city for the benefit of the poor fund, and in addition thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Geneva, Ontario County.

(Note. Three commissioners of charity appointed by the mayor for a term of six years. No compensation.)

Chapter 360, Laws of 1897.

TITLE VIII.

Of the Board of Charities.

75. The commissioners of charities shall constitute the board of charities. They shall organize before the tenth day of January next succeeding their appointment by the election of one of their number president, who shall hold office for one year and until his successor is appointed by the board. The commissioners first appointed under this act shall be appointed for two, four and six years respectively, and thereafter on the expiration of the term of any commissioner his successor shall be appointed for the term of six years. The commissioners shall serve without pay. The board shall have the power to determine and prescribe its own rules of procedure and regulations for the conduct of its department, and shall convene in such regular or special meeting as shall be necessary to the proper performance of the duties imposed upon it.

§ 76. The board of charities shall have all the powers now conferred and imposed upon overseers of the poor of towns in the county of Ontario, and shall have such other powers and duties, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, or the other laws of this state, as may be prescribed by the ordinances of the common council. The board of charities shall appoint, to hold office during its pleasure, an agent who shall receive compensation as now provided by law for overseers of the poor in towns, to be approved by the board of charities and audited and paid by the county of Ontario in like manner as overseers of poor in said county, and who shall, under the direction and control of the board, dispense alms and relief to the poor within the city, and administer any charities committed to the juris diction of the board. (As amended by chapter 614 of the Laws of 1899.)

§ 77. The overseer of the poor shall give a bond in such form, for such amount, and with such sureties as shall be prescribed by the board of charities for the faithful performance of his duties, and he shall have power to examine, under oath, any person applying for relief.

§ 78. Any person to whom relief shall be furnished by such board, who shall sell or exchange any article or property furnished him by the board for intoxicating liquor or for money, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person who shall exchange intoxicating liquor for any article so furnished as relief or charity, knowing the same to have been thus furnished to such person as a poor person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Glens Falls, Warren County.

Note.- Commissioner of charities appointed by the mayor for a term of two years. Salary fixed by the common council.) Chapter 29, Laws of 1908.

TITLE IX.

Department of Charities.

Section 110. Appointment and salary of commissioner.
111. Powers and duties of commissioner.
112. Applications and orders for relief.
113. Common council to audit accounts.
114. Commissioner not to be interested.
115. Commissioner not to employ physician.
116. City physician, appointment, duties.

§ 110. Appointment and salary of commissioner. The commissioner of charities of said city shall be appointed by the mayor, and shall receive for his services an annual salary to be fixed by the common council.

§ 111. Powers and duties of commissioner. Except as otherwise provided by this act, the commissioner of charities, appointed under the provisions of this act, shall have and exercise VOL. 331

within the city of Glens Falls the same powers and discharge the same duties, to the exclusion of all other officer or officers, as overseers of the poor in the several towns. Said commissioner shall have the same power and exercise the same duties within said city as overseers of the poor and county superintendents of the poor have in relation to bastards and the bringing of prose cutions and settlements in bastardy cases. It shall be the duty of

said commissioner to visit the poor of said city at their several places of abode and examine into their circumstances and ascer tain to what extent they are or may be in need and entitled to permanent or temporary relief. He shall have the care and management of the affairs of the city in relation to the care and sup port of the poor, under the direction of the mayor, and for all purposes relating to his office and duties, he shall have the same power and authority in the city of Glens Falls as overseers of the poor now have in the several towns of Warren county except as otherwise herein provided.

§ 112. Applications and orders for relief. The commissioner shall cause to be prepared blank applications for relief and blank orders, the reasonable expense of which shall be a charge against said city and shall be audited and allowed by the common council, and paid by the chamberlain as other city expenses are. Every application for relief shall be made in writing to the commissioner who shall in all cases make a written order granting relief or denying the same and briefly specifying his reason therefor. Such order shall be in duplicate one of which shall be delivered to the applicant. The commissioner shall insert in said order if relief is granted, the person's name as drawee on whom the applicant desires the order drawn and shall specify the article or articles and the quantity thereof, and such order shall not be transferable. All applications and duplicate orders shall be preserved by the commissioner and shall be open for public inspection, and at the end of each month all such applications and duplicate orders shall be filed with the city clerk. The commissioner shall not name any person on whom any order is to be drawn. A violation of this provision shall be ground for removal of the commissioner from office by the mayor, after giving him a copy of written charges and an opportunity to be heard at

a public meeting. The commissioner of charities shall disburse the funds for the aid of the poor of said city, in the manner provided herein, by orders signed by him and drawn upon the chamberlain of the city, and all provisions of this act, relating to the orders of the common council, so far as practicable, shall be applicable to the orders of the commissioner of charities. No disbursement shall be made by the commissioner in behalf of any one family during a year in excess of ten dollars without the express approval of the mayor endorsed upon the warrant.

§ 113. Common council to audit accounts. All charges and accounts against said city for services rendered, acts done, or means, provisions, or supplies furnished under the direction of the commissioner of charities of said city under the provisions of this act, shall be made out in items, duly verified by the persons entitled to the payment therefor, and presented, with the duplicate order authorizing the same to the common council at the first regular meeting of said council in each month for auditing bills. The common council shall audit all such claims, accounts and charges, and when so audited, the commissioner is authorized to pay and discharge the same by order upon the chamberlain, payable out of the charities fund of said city; but no order shall be drawn or payment made by said commissioner for such purpose until the account therefor has been duly audited as aforesaid. Such account and charges with the duplicate order presented therewith, the audit of the common council, and the order of the commissioner on the chamberlain, shall within one month after said audit be filed with the city clerk with the application for relief and the duplicate order previously filed as aforesaid.

§ 114. Commissioner not to be interested in purchases. The commissioner of charities shall not, directly or indirectly, furnish to any person whatever, any groceries, provisions, fuel, medicine, rent or property belonging to himself, or in which he shall have any interest or be interested, nor shall he be interested in any contract for the purchasing of such groceries, provisions, medicines, fuel, or property; nor shall he receive any commissions upon or for any goods, rent or articles or relief furnished,

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