after the accounts of the overseers of the poor have been settled by the town board at its first annual meeting in each year, an abstract of all such accounts, which shall exhibit the number of poor persons that have been relieved or supported in such town the preceding year, specifying the number of county poor, and town poor, the whole expense of such support, the allowance made to overseers, justices, constables or other officers, which shall not comprise any part of the actual expenses of maintaining the poor. § 138. Register of sex and age. In addition to the general register of the inmates of the various alms-houses, there shall be kept a record of the sex, age, birthplace, birth of parents, education, habits, occupation, condition of ancestors and family relations, and cause of dependence of each person at the time of admission, with such other facts and particulars in relation thereto as may be required by the state board of charities, upon forms prescribed and furnished by such board. Superintendents and overseers of the poor, and other officers charged with the relief and support of poor persons, shall furnish to the keepers or other officers in charge of such alms-houses, as full information as practicable in relation to each person sent or brought by them to such alms-house, and such keepers or other officers, shall record the information ascertained at the time of the admission of such person, on the forms so furnished. All such records shall be preserved in such alms-houses, and the keepers and other officers in charge thereof shall make copies of the same on the first day of each month, and immediately forward such copies to the state board of charities. $139. Care of poor persons not to be put up at auction.-No officer or persons whose duty it may be to provide for the maintenance, care or support of poor persons at public expense, shall put up at auction or sale, the keeping, care or maintenance of any such poor person to the lowest bidder, and every contract which may be entered into in violation of this provision shall be void. § 140. Reports of certain other officers.-The provisions of this chapter, relating to reports by superintendents of the poor, to the state board of charities, and the penalties applicable thereto, are hereby extended to, and made applicable to the commissioners of public charities for the city and county of New York, the superintendent of the alms-house of the county of Laws Repealed; When to Take Effect. SS 141-151 Albany, the keeper of the alms-house of the county of Putnam, the commissioners of the alms-house elected in the cities of Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, and all poor officials elected or appointed in other cities of this state, under general or special acts of the legislature. § 141. Alms-house commissioners to report. The commissioners of the alms-house of the cities of Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, and the poor officers of other cities chosen under special acts of the legislature, shall annually, on the first day of December, report to the superintendent of the poor of their respective counties such statistics as, from time to time, may be required to be reported in the other cities and towns under the provisions of this chapter. 142. Report of state board of charities.-The state board of charities shall include in its annual report to the legislature the results of the information obtained from the reports to be made to it as herein provided. It shall also, from time to time, furnish to the officials so required to report to it, necessary forms, blanks and instructions required in making up such reports. ARTICLE IX. LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT. SECTION 150. Laws repealed. 151. When to take effect. 150. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. 8151. When to take effect.-This chapter shall take effect on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Revised Statutes, part I, ch. 20, tit. I........ All. Revised Statutes, part I, ch. 20, tit. VI............... All. CHAPTER XXVIII OF THE GENERAL LAWS. [CHAP. 545 OF 1896.] THE INSANITY LAW. ARTICLE I. State commission in lunacy (SS 1-17). II. Institutions for the care, treatment and custody of the insane III. Commitment, care and discharge of the insane (§§ 60-77). ARTICLE I. STATE COMMISSION IN LUNACY. SECTION 1. Short title. 2. Definitions. 3. Appointment, qualifications, terms of office and salaries of commissioners. 4. Office and clerical force of commission. 5. Official seal and execution of papers. 6. General powers. 7. Official visits. 8. Regulations and forms. 9. Annual report. 10. State hospital districts; how defined. 11. Change of hospital districts and reassignment of patients. 12. Record of medical examiners. 13. Record of patients. 14. Institutions to furnish information to commission. 15. Commission to provide for the prospective wants of the insane. 16. Director of the pathological institute. 17. Hospital attorneys. SECTION 1. Short title.-This chapter shall be known as the insanity law. § 2. Definitions. When used in this chapter, the term poor person means a person who is unable to maintain himself and having no one legally liable and able to maintain him; the term, an indigent person, means one who has not sufficient property to support himself while insane, and the members of his family lawfully dependent upon him for support; the term institution |