There are also other institutions, not included in the above lists, receiving mandatory payments from the City, but which do not care for children who are merely dependent or delinquent. These are institutions for defective children, hospitals, reformatories receiving no children under 14 years of age, and institutions which receive the payment of a "lump sum " per annum. A list of such institutions, with the amount paid to each, is as follows: Children's Aid Society. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Chil dren St. John's Guild.... Sanitarium for Hebrew Children in New $70,000 00 per year. American Female Guardian Society Society for Ruptured and Crippled Chil dren (per capita)... House of the Good Shepherd (per capita)... Magdalen Benevolent Asylum ( per capita)- Friendless Girls V. INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. in STATISTICS in regard to the total number and cost of maintenance of children and adults supported at public expense private institutions throughout the State. FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.-County of New York. SECOND.-Counties of Richmond, Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Westchester, Orange, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess. THIRD.-Counties of Columbia, Sullivan, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Schoharie and Rensselaer. FOURTH.-Counties of Warren, Saratoga, Washington, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Clinton, Montgomery, Hamilton and Fulton. FIFTB.-Counties of Onondaga, Oneida, Oswego, Herkimer, Jefferson and Lewis. SIXTH.-Counties of Otsego, Delaware, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland and Schuyler. SEVENTH.-Counties of Livingston, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Ontario, Steuben, Monroe, and Cayuga. EIGHTH.-Counties of Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Niagara, Genesee, Allegany and Wyoming Institutions for Children. Institutions for Adults. Hospitals. Section 14 of Article VIII. of the Revised Constitution confers upon the State Board of Charities authority to regulate the admission and retention of inmates supported at public expense in private institutions. The Section is as follows: SECTION 14. Nothing in this Constitution contained shall prevent the Legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper, or prevent any county, city, town or village from providing for the care, support, maintenance and secular education of inmates of orphan asylums, homes for dependent children or correctional institutions, whether under public or private control. Payments by counties, cities, towns and villages to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions, wholly or partly under private control, for care, support and maintenance, may be authorized, but shall not be required by the Legislature. No such payments shall be made for any inmate of such institutions who is not received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the State Board of Charities. Such rules shall be subject to the control of the Legislature by general laws. [5787L] |