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expenses of the institute and appoint the director. The board of trustees shall, within the limits of the annual appropriation made therefor, fix all salaries of officers and employees of the institute and authorize all disbursements. The board may meet any time on the call of the chairman and shall be allowed necessary traveling expenses in attending the fixed meetings or any special meetings. At least two of the trustees shall be residents of Buffalo or vicinity and one of them shall be a member of the medical faculty or of the council of the university of Buffalo.

346. Objects and purposes of the institute. The institute shall conduct investigations into the cause, nature, mortality rate, treatment, prevention and cure of cancer and allied diseases, and may receive in its hospital for study, experimental or other treatment, cases of cancer and allied diseases free of charge. It shall publish from time to time the results of its investigations for the benefit of humanity and shall from time to time collect its publications into the form of a scientific report for distribution to scientific bodies and to medical scientists and qualified members of the medical profession. The direction of research work in whole or in part toward malignant diseases other than cancer shall not be a violation of the conditions of the grants made under the provisions of which this article is a part.

$347. Director of the institute. A director of the institute shall be appointed by the board of trustees and shall serve until his successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified. He shall be a trained scientist and shall have sole executive direction of the work of the institute. He shall appoint all members of the staff, subject to the approval of the board of trustees, and he shall appoint and dismiss at will all other employees of the institute.

Appropria- § 2. The sum of sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000), or so building. much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of constructing and equipping a suitable building for a state hospital for research purposes, as hereinafter particularly described, upon ground adjoining the Gratwick laboratory at Buffalo, New York; such hospital and the Gratwick laboratory building shall be used by and for the state institute for the study of malignant disease, established by article eighteen of the public health law, as added by this act, but the laboratory building shall continue to be known as the Gratwick laboratory. Before any part of such appropriation shall be or become avail

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able, the land on which the hospital building provided for in be conthis act is to stand, consisting of the plot adjoining the Gratwick state. laboratory on the west, extending about one hundred and fifty feet to the corner of Oak street, with a depth of about one hundred and seventy-nine feet, shall be conveyed to the people of the state by the owners thereof, and the conveyance approved as to form and manner of execution by the attorney-general; and the land upon which the Gratwick laboratory stands, together with the building thereon, and all of its appointments and equipment (heretofore for the purpose of medical research provided for the use of the state by Mrs. William H. Gratwick of Buffalo, New York), shall be by like deed, similarly approved, conveyed to the people of the state. The deeds may contain a Conditions condition that the grant is made subject to the agreement on the ance. part of the state that there shall be thereafter maintained thereon an institute for the study of malignant and allied diseases, according to the provisions of this act and that upon the determination by the legislature that such institute shall be no longer maintained at the expense of the state, all of such land with all buildings and improvements thereon and equipment therein shall revert to the university of Buffalo, its successors or assigns, but in that case such reversion to the university of Buffalo shall not include the hospital building except upon the payment by the university of Buffalo to the state of the then duly appraised value of the hospital building.

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3. The original members, other than the state commissioner Original of health, of the board of trustees of the state institute for the trustees. study of malignant disease, as established by section three hundred and forty-four of the public health law, as added by this act, shall be the following persons: Roswell Park, M. D., Buffalo, who shall be chairman; William H. Gratwick, Buffalo; Charles Cary, M. D., Buffalo; John G. Milburn, New York; Frederick C. Stevens, Attica, New York; Charles S. Fairchild, New York.

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building.

§ 4. The amount hereby appropriated shall be paid by the Appropriatreasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller upon vouchers paid. approved as hereinafter provided. The plans and specifications for the building herein provided for shall be prepared or ap tions for proved by the state architect and he may, with the approval of the board of trustees of the institute, employ an architect or architects to prepare the plans and specifications and to locally supervise the work of construction herein provided. All plans and specifications shall be subject to the approval of the director

estimates

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ments.

Art. 18 renumbered

art. 19.

of said institute, appointed as provided by section three hundred and forty-seven of the public health law, as added by this act, and of its board of trustees. The work under this act shall be done by contract except work which in the opinion of the comptroller and the state architect can be done in whole or in part more advantageously by the employment of labor and the purchase of material in the open market. All expenditures under this act shall be made in pursuance of the estimates or pursuant to contracts the form of which shall be prescribed by the state architect. The estimates shall be made to the comptroller in the usual form by the board of trustees of said institute. Where the work estimated for is upon drawings and specifications of the state architect, the estimates shall be subject to his approval also. No item of such appropriation shall be available except for necessary advertising and the preparation of plans until a contract or contracts for the completion of the structure authorized to be erected within the appropriation shall be made. All contracts greater in amount than one thousand dollars shall have the performance thereof secured by a sufficient bond or bonds to be approved by and filed with the comptroller. In the case of any work which shall amount to less than one thousand dollars covered by contract, no surety bond shall be required, provided payment is to be made only after the work has been satisfactorily completed. All payments on contracts shall be made on the certificate of the state architect and the voucher of the board of trustees of said institute after audit of the state comptroller.

§ 5. Present article eighteen of such chapter is hereby renumbered article nineteen thereof.

§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 129.

AN ACT to legalize and validate the issuing of bonds of the village school district of the town of Malone, in the county of Franklin, for the purpose of borrowing money to erect an addition to the schoolhouse in said district known as the Academy Building, and to make alterations, repairs and improvements in and to said Academy Building, and to equip said Academy Building so enlarged, repaired and improved with a suitable heating and ventilating system.

Became a law May 12, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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Section 1. The special school meeting held in and for the vil- Proceedlage school district of the town of Malone, in the county of Frank- tive to lin, on the twenty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and legalized. eleven, and the proposition submitted and adopted at such school meeting, authorizing and directing the board of education of said school district to erect an addition to the schoolhouse in said district known as the Academy Building, and to make alterations, repairs and improvements in and to said Academy Building and to equip the same as so enlarged, repaired and improved with a suitable heating and ventilating system, and that the said board of education borrow on the credit of said district the sum of fiftyfive thousand five hundred dollars, by the issuance and sale of fifty-six district bonds, namely, fifty-five bonds of one thousand dollars each and one five-hundred dollar bond, all bearing interest at the rate of four and one-half per centum per annum, for the purpose of erecting such addition and making such alterations and equipment; and the acts of the said board of education in advertising said school meeting and in conducting the same and all proceedings had for the purpose of authorizing the issue of said bonds, are hereby ratified, confirmed and legalized, and made of the same force and effect as if the laws applicable thereto had been fully and strictly complied with; and the said bonds of said Bonds school district bearing interest at the rate of four and one-half per centum per annum to be issued by said board of education, are hereby declared to be valid and binding obligations of said school district; and the said board of education may sell said bonds to Sale

validated.

authorized

Pending actions.

the person, firm or corporation which has already submitted the highest bid for the purchase of said bonds, but the same shall not be sold for less than their par value and accrued interest.

§ 2. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in any court.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 130.

AN ACT to enable the board of supervisors of the county of Albany to sell and convey to the city of Albany all of the right and title and interest of which the county of Albany is now seized and possessed in and to the real estate known as the city hall, in the city of Albany, for the purpose of acquiring funds to be used in the erection of a courthouse in and for the county of Albany.

Became a law May 12, 1911, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

Accepted by the City.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The board of supervisors of the county of Albany are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey to the city of Albany, for the sum to be agreed upon, all of the right, title and interest in and to the real estate of which the said county of Albany is now seized and possessed of an undivided one-half interest, known as the city hall, in the city of Albany, the title of which is now vested jointly in the county of Albany and in the city of Albany, for the purpose of enabling the said county of Albany to secure funds to erect a suitable courthouse.

§ 2. Any and all acts providing for the government and control of the said city hall, in the city of Albany, are hereby repealed. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.