Appendix A.

RIGHT OF ENTRANCE LAW-STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION.

General-All Counties-Laws of New York.

CHAP. 635, LAWS OF 1893.

AN ACT in relation to the State Charities Aid Association.

Approved by the Governor, May 6, 1893. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Any Justice of the Supreme Court, on written application of the State Charities Aid Association through its President or other officer designated by its Board of Managers, may grant to such persons as may be named in said application, orders to enable such persons, or any of them, as visitors of such Association to visit, inspect and examine, in behalf of said Association, any of the public charitable institutions owned by the State, and the county, town and city poorhouses and almshouses within the State. The persons so appointed to visit, inspect and examine said institution or institutions shall reside in the county or counties from which said institution or institutions receive their inmates, and such appointment shall be made by the Justice of the Supreme Court of the judicial district in which said visitors reside. Each order shall specify the institution to be visited, inspected and examined, and the name of each person by whom such visitation, inspection and examination shall be made, and shall be in force for one year from the date on which it shall have been granted, unless sooner revoked.

$2. All persons in charge of any such institution shall admit each person named in any such order into every part of such institution, and render such person every possible facility to enable him to make in a thorough manner such visit, inspection and examination, which are hereby declared to be for a public purpose, and to be made with a view to public benefit. Obedience to the orders herein authorized shall be enforced in the same manner as obedience is enforced to an order or mandate made by a court of record.

§ 3. The State Charities Aid Association shall make annual reports of the results of its visits and inspections made under this Act to the State Board of Charities upon matters relating to

the institutions subject to the visitation of said Board; and to the State Commission in Lunacy upon matters relating to the institutions subject to inspection or control by said Commission. Said reports shall be made on or before the first day of December for each preceding fiscal year.

§ 4. Chapter 323 of the Laws of eighteen hundred and eightyone is hereby repealed.

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW YORK,

Office of the Secretary of State, S

SS.:

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original law.

FRANK RICE,
Secretary of State.

Appendix B.

CHILDREN'S LAW.

Laws of 1884, Chapter 438.-An Act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the State relating to the custody and care of indigent and pauper children by orphan asylums and other charitable institutions. Passed May 31, 1884, three fifths being present.

SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for any County Superintendent or Overseer of the Poor, Board of Charity, or other officer to send any child between the ages of two and sixteen years, as a pauper, to any county poorhouse or almshouse for support and care, or to detain any child between the ages of two and sixteen years in such poorhouse or almshouse, but such County Superintendents, Overseers of the Poor, Boards of Charities or other officers shall provide for such child or children in families, orphan asylums, hospitals or other appropriate institutions, as provided by law. The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties of the State are hereby directed to take such action in the matter as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. When any such child shall be so provided for or placed in any orphan asylum or such other institution, such child shall, when practicable, be so provided for or placed in such asylum or such other institution as shall then be controlled by persons of the same religious faith as the parents of such child.

Appendix C.

CENSUS OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION
OF NEW YORK CITY,

FEBRUARY 1, 1895.

Institutions which after January 1, 1896, will belong to Depart-
ment of Public Charities (not including Asylums for Insane).

Asylums for the Insane (which, it is expected, will be transferred
to the State during the present year).

*Included in census, but not under the control of the Department of Charities and Correction.

Institutions which, after January 1, 1896, will belong to Department of Correction.

Summary (Inmates and Employees).

Department of Public Charities (exclusive of Insane)... 6,556

Appendix D.

Local-New York County.

CHAP. 912, LAWS OF 1895.

AN ACT to abolish the department of public charities and correction in the city of New York, and to provide for the establishment of two separate departments in place thereof, to be known respectively as "The department of public charities of the city of New York," and "The department of correction of the city of New York," and to define the powers and duties of such departments.

Accepted by the city.

BECAME a law June 5, 1895, 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:

SECTION 1. The existing department of public charities and correction of the city of New York, is hereby abolished from and after the thirty-first of December next following the passage of this act; and in lieu thereof and in addition to the existing departments of the city of New York, there are hereby created the department of public charities and the department of correction of the city of New York, which said department of public charities and department of correction shall succeed respectively to all the rights, powers, duties, obligations and jurisdiction of the existing department of public charities and correction, as hereinafter provided. The terms of office of the commissioners of the existing department of public charities and correction, shall cease and terminate on and after midnight of the thirty-first of December following the passage hereof.

§ 2. The mayor of the city of New York shall, at least ten days before the thirty-first of December following the passage of this act, appoint three resident taxpayers of the city of New York who shall be citizens of the United States to be commissioners of public charities in the city of New York, and a resident taxpayer of the city of New York and who shall be a citizen of the United States to be commissioner of correction in the city of New York, which commissioners shall take office on the first day of January following the passage hereof.

83. The term of office of each of said commissioners shall be six years from and after the thirty-first day of December next following the passage of this act and until the appointment and qualification of his successor, and each of such commissioners of public charities shall receive from the city of New