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 Members and Officers of tlie Board, Statutes 
 
 IN REGARD TO 
 
 its Organization and Powers, 
 
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 DIRECTORY 
 
 TO THE 
 
 CHARITABLE AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE. 
 
 1 876 . 
 
 Prepafed by Order of the Board. 
 
 ALBANY: 
 
 THE ARGUS COMPANY, PRINTERS. 
 1876. 
 
STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 
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 State Board of Charities. 
 
 CALENDAR FOR 1876 
 
 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS. • 
 
 Hon. Wm. DORSHEIMER, Lieutenant-Governor Albany. 
 
 Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, Secretary of State ... Albany. 
 
 Hon. LUCIUS ROBINSON, Comptroller Albany. 
 
 Hon. CHAS. S. FAIRCHILD, Attorney-General Albany. 
 
 MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR AND SENATE. 
 
 First J^ididal District — Theodore Roosevelt, 94 Maiden Lane, New York. 
 New York County (Chap. 571, Laws of 1873) — Henry L. Hoguet, 48 West 
 Twenty-eighth Street, New York; Ciias. H. Marshall, 38 Burling Slip, 
 New York. 
 
 Second Judicial District — Harvey G. Eastman, Poughkeepsie. 
 
 Kings County (Chap. 571, Laws of 1873) — A. A. Low, 3 Pierrepont Place, 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 Third Judicial District — John V. L. Pruyn, 13 Elk Street, Albany. 
 
 Fourth Judicial District — Edward W. Foster, Potsdam, St. Lawrence County. 
 Fifth Judicial District — John C. Devereux, Utica. 
 
 Sixth Judicial District — Samuel F. Miller, Franklin, Delaware County. 
 
 Seventh Judicial District — Martin B. Anderson, Rochester. 
 
 Eighth Judicial District — Wm. P. Letchworth, Buffalo. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 John V. L. Pruyn. President. 
 
 Wm. P. Letchworth Vice-President. 
 
 Chas. S. Hoyt, Albany Secretary. 
 
 James O. Fanning, Albany Assistant Secretary. 
 
 Office of the Board — 11 High Street, Albany. 
 
 STATED PUBLIC MEETINGS. 
 
 Thursday, March 9th, at 10 o’clock a. m., at the Office of the Board. 
 Thursday, June 8th, at 10 o’clock a. m., at Rochester. 
 
 Thursday, September 14th, at 10 o’clock a. m., at New York. 
 
 Wednesday, December 27th, at 10 o’clock a. m., at the Office of the Board. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 The President, Vice-President and Secretary, together with any member or 
 members of the Board who may be present — three to constitute a quorum. 
 
 A Meeting of the Committee is appointed to be held on the first Tuesday’’ in each 
 month, at 3:30 o’clock p. m., at the Office of the Board. 
 

 STATUTES 
 
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 [Laws of 1867.J 
 
 Chapter 951. 
 
 
 An Act to provide for the appointment of a Board of Com- 
 missioners of Public Charities, and defining their duties 
 and powers. 
 
 Passed May 23, 1867 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yorh^ represented in Senate 
 and Assenubly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the 
 Governor, by and witli the consent of the senate, shall appoint 
 eight persons, one residing in each judicial district of the State, to 
 be called and known as The Board of State Commissioners of 
 Public Charities. {See Chapter 571, Laws 1873.) 
 
 § 2. One of the persons so appointed shall hold his office for one 
 year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, one 
 for live years, one for six years, one for seven years and one for 
 eight years, as indicated by the governor on making the nomina- 
 tions ; and all appointments thereafter, except to fill vacancies, 
 shall be made for eight years. 
 
 § 3. Before entering upon their duties, the said commissioners 
 shall respectively take and subscribe to the constitutional oath 
 required of other State officers, which shall be filed in the office of 
 the secretary of State wdio is hereby authorized and directed to 
 administer such oath. The said commissioners shall have power 
 to elect a president out of its own number, and such other officers 
 and agents as it may deem proper, and to adopt such by-laws and 
 
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 regulations for the transaction of its business and the management- 
 of its affairs as it may consider expedient. 
 
 § 4. The said commissioners shall have full power at all times to 
 look into and examine the condition of the several institutions 
 which they may be authorized by this act to visit, financially and 
 otherwise; to inquire and examine into their methods of instruc- 
 tion, and the government and management of their inmates ; the 
 official conduct of trustees, directors and other officers and em- 
 ])loyes of the same; the condition of tlie buildings, grounds and 
 other property connected therewith, and into all other matters 
 pertaining to their usefulness and good management; and for these 
 purposes they shall have free access to the grounds, buildings and 
 all books and papers relating to said institutions ; and all persons, 
 now or hereafter in any manner connected with the same, are 
 hereby directed and required to give such inforujation, and afford 
 such facilities for inspection, as the said commissioners may require ; 
 and any neglect or refusal on the part of any officer or person con- 
 nected with such institution, to comply with the requirement? of 
 this section, shall subject the offender jto a penalty of two hundred 
 and fifty dollars, to be sued for and collected by the said commis- 
 sioners in their name of office. 
 
 § 5. The said commissioners, or some one of them, are hereby 
 authorized and required, at least once in each year, and as much 
 oftener as they may deem necessary, to visit all the charitable and 
 correctional institutions of the State, excepting prisons, receiving 
 State aid, and ascertain whether the moneys appropriated for their 
 aid are or have been economically and judiciously expended ; 
 whether the objects of the several institutions are accomplished ; 
 whether the laws in relation to them are fully complied with ; 
 whether all parts of the State are equally benefited by said institu- 
 tions, and the various other matters referred to in the fourth section 
 of this act ; and report in writing to the legislature, at the opening 
 of each annual session of the same, the result of their investigations, 
 together with such other information and recommendations as thev 
 may deem proper. 
 
 § 6. The said commissioners, or some one of them, shall also, at 
 least once during the first two years of their appointment, and also 
 at least once during each two years thereafter, visit and examine 
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 houses, and shall possess all the powers relative thereto, as men- 
 tioned In the fourth section of this act ; and shall report to the 
 legislature, in writing, the result of their examination, in connec- 
 tion with the annual report above mentioned. 
 
 § 7. Whenever any charitable or correctional institution, subject 
 to the inspection herein provided for, require State aid for any 
 purpose other than their usual expenses, the said commissioners, or 
 some or one of them, shall inquire carefully and fully into the ground 
 of such want, the purpose or purposes for which it proposes to use 
 the same, the amount which will be required to accomplish the 
 desired object, and into any other matters connected therewith ; 
 and in the annual report of each year they shall give the result of 
 such inquiries, together with their own opinions and conclusions 
 relating to the whole subject. 
 
 § 8. The said commissioners, or any one of them, are hereby 
 authorized to administer oaths and examine any person or persons 
 in relation to any matters connected with the inquiries authorized 
 by this act. 
 
 § 9. The said board of commissioners shall have power and they 
 are hereby authorized to appoint a clerk, who shall hold his office 
 during their pleasure, with a salary not exceeding fifteen hundred 
 dollars per annum, who shall, when required, act as an accountant, 
 from time to time, as they may have occasion to investigate the 
 financial or other affairs of any of the institutions affected by this 
 act, or the accounts or official conduct of any of their officers ; and 
 when acting as such accountant, he shall, in addition, be allowed 
 his actual traveling expenses. 
 
 § 10. The trustees of the capitol, or, in case of their inability, 
 the trustees of the new State hall, shall assign to the said board a 
 suitable room for their accommodation. 
 
 § 11. The said commissioners, or some or any one of them, shall 
 attend upon the sessions of the legislature whenever any committee 
 of either house shall require their attendance. 
 
 § 12. The said board of commissioners shall be furnished by the 
 comptroller with journal, account books, blanks and stationery. 
 
 § 13. The said commissioners shall receive no compensation for 
 their time or services, but the actual expenses of each one of them, 
 while engaged in the performance of the duties of their office, and 
 any actual outlay for any necessary aid or assistance required in 
 
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 examinations or investigations, on being made out and verified by 
 the affidavit of the commissioner making the charge, shall be paid 
 quarterly by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, out 
 of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the 
 clerk of the board shall be paid in like manner. 
 
 § 14. JSTo member of the board of said commissioners shall be, 
 directly or indirectly, interested in any contract for building, 
 repairing or furnishing any of the institutions which by this act 
 they are authorized to visit and inspect, nor shall any trustee or 
 other officers of any of the institutions embraced in this act be 
 eligible to the office of commissioner hereby created. 
 
 § 15. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 [Laws of 1868.] 
 
 Chapter 717. 
 
 An Act making appropriation for certain expenses of 
 government, and for supplying deficiencies in former 
 appropriations. 
 
 Passed May 8, 1868; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The Peo])le of the State of New Yorh^ represented in Senate 
 and Assembly^ do enact as folloios : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 For the board of State commissioners of public charities, for 
 expenses, two thousand dollars. 
 
 [Laws of 1869.] 
 
 Chapter 645. 
 
 An Act making appropriations for the support of gov- 
 ernment 
 
 Passed May 6, 1869; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 For the commissioners of public charities, for the salary of the 
 secretary, twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may 
 
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 be fixed by the board ; for office rent, stationery, fuel, lights and 
 contingencies, twelve hundred dollars. 
 
 For the commissioners of public charities for traveling expenses 
 of the commissioners and secretary, and for clerk hire, two thou- 
 sand five hundred dollars. 
 
 Chapter 822. 
 
 An Act making appropriations for certain expenses of 
 government, and for supplying deficiencies in former 
 appropriations. 
 
 Passed May 10, 1869 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yorh. represented in Senate 
 and Assembly^ do enact as follovjs : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 For the board of commissioners of public charities for the 
 State, for salary of clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; for 
 expenses, one thousand two hundred dollars, and for extra compen- 
 sation, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. 
 
 [Laws of 1870.] 
 
 Chapter 281. 
 
 An Act making appropriations for the support of govern- 
 ment. 
 
 Passed April 19, 1870 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yorh, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as folloios : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 For the State commissioners of public charities, for the salary 
 of the secretary, twenty-five hundred dollars ; for traveling expenses 
 of the commissioners and secretary, for office rent, clerk hire, 
 stationery, lights, fuel and contingencies, three thousand dollars. 
 The lieutenant-governor, secretary of State, comptroller and 
 attorney-general, are hereby constituted members ex officio of the 
 said State commissioners of public charities. 
 
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 [Laws of 1871.1 
 
 Chapter 713. 
 
 An Act in relation to the Chronic Pauper Insane. 
 
 Passed April 25, 1871 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yorh^ represented in Senate 
 and Assembly^ do 67 } act as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The board of State commissioners of public charities 
 are hereby authorized to heai’ and determine all applications which 
 may be made to them, in writing, by the county superintendents of 
 the poor of the several counties of this State, for exemption from 
 the operation of the tenth section of the act entitled “ An act to 
 authorize the establishment of a State asylum for the chronic insane, 
 and for the better care of the insane poor,” to be known as The 
 Willard Asylum for the Insane,” passed April eighth, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty-five. And whenever said board on such appli- 
 cation shall determine that the buildings and means employed to 
 take care of the chronic pauper insane of such county are sufficient 
 and proper for the time being for such purpose, and shall file the 
 same in the office of the clerk of the county making such applica- 
 tion, then and in that case, and until such determination shall be 
 revoked as hereinafter mentioned and provided, the county super- 
 intendents of the poor of such county shall be relieved from send- 
 ing the chronic pauper insane of such county to the Willard 
 Asylum for the Insane, as now provided by law. Said board may 
 at any time revoke such determination, but such revocation must 
 be made in writiyg, signed by said board, and filed in the county 
 clerk’s office of the county making such application, and notice 
 tliereof given in writing to the county superintendents of the 
 poor of such county, and upon the filing of the same tlie said 
 county superintendents of the poor of such county shall from 
 thenceforward be again subject to the provisions and operations of 
 tlie said act. 
 
 § 2. The board of State commissioners of public charities are 
 hereby authorized and required, whenever they shall be satisfied 
 that the provisions made for the chronic insane in a county poor- 
 house is inadequate and unsuitable, to direct the superintendents 
 of the poor of such county to remove the chronic insane of that 
 
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 county to the Willard Asylum for the Insane within ten days 
 after receiving a written or printed notice to make such removal. 
 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Chapter 699. 
 
 An Act to provide for taking testimony in certain mat- 
 ters relating to State charitable institutions. 
 
 Passed April 25, 1871 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yovh^ represented in Senate and 
 Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Whenever the State board of commissioners of 
 public charities, or the managers, directors or trustees of any 
 asylum, hospital, or other charitable institution, the managers, 
 directors or trustees of which are appointed by the Governor and 
 senate, or by the legislature, shall deem it necessary or proper to 
 investigate and ascertain the truth of any charge or complaint 
 made or circulated respecting the conduct of the superintendent, 
 assistants, subordinate officers or servants, in whatever capacity, 
 or duty, employed by or under the official control of any such 
 board, managers, directors or trustees, it shall be lawful for the 
 presiding officer for the time being of any such board, managers, 
 directors or trustees, to administer oaths to all witnesses coming 
 before them respectively for examination, and to issue compulsory 
 process for the attendance of any witness within the State whom 
 they may respectively desire to examine, and for the production 
 of all papers that any such witness may possess, or have in his 
 power, touching the matter of such complaint or investigation ; 
 and willful false swearing by any witness who may be so examined 
 is hereby declared to ])e perjury. 
 
 § 2. All persons examined as witnesses under the first section of 
 this act shall be paid the same fees as are now paid to witnesses in 
 the supreme court by the said board, managers, directors or trus- 
 tees, authorizing the issuing of such compulsory process. 
 
 § 3. Any person willfully neglecting to obey any subpoena or 
 citation to testify or produce papers, as provided in this act, shall 
 
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 be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered, with 
 costs of suit, before any court having cognizance thereof. 
 
 Chapter 718. 
 
 An Act making appropriations for the support of govern' 
 
 ment. 
 
 Passed April 26, 1871 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York^ represented in Senate and 
 Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 For the State commissioners of public charities, for the salary of 
 the secretary, twenty-live hundred dollars; for traveling expenses 
 of the commissioners and secretary, for office rent, clerk hire, 
 stationery, lights, fuel and contingencies, three thousand dollars. 
 
 [Laws of 1872.] 
 
 Chapter 641. 
 
 An Act making appropriations for the support of govern- 
 ment. 
 
 Passed May 6, 1872; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York^ represented in Senate and 
 Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 STATE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. 
 
 For the salary of the secretary of the commissioners of public 
 charities, twenty-live hundred dollars, and for the traveling expenses 
 of the commissioners and the secretary, and for office expenses, clerk 
 hire and contingencies of the State commissioners of public chari- 
 ties, two thousand live hundred dollars. 
 
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 [Laws of 1873.] 
 
 Chapter 671. 
 
 An Act further to define the powers and duties of the 
 board of State commissioners of public charities, and 
 to change the name of the board to the State board of 
 charities. 
 
 Passed May 21, 1873. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represe\ited rOt Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The commissioners now in office, appointed pursuant 
 to tlie act entitled ‘^An act to provide for the appointment of a 
 board of commissioners of public charities and defining their 
 duties and powers,” passed May twenty-third, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty seven, and their successors to be hereafter appointed, 
 shall constitute a board to be called The State Board of Chari- 
 ties,” and such board and commissioners shall have the powers 
 conferred by said law and all amendments thereof, together with 
 such further powers and duties as are hereinafter mentioned ; and 
 all provisions of said laws not inconsistent herewith shall apply to 
 said board and to the said commissioners respectively. Such a 
 board shall cause a record to be kept of its proceedings by its 
 secretary or other proper officer. It shall have power to make and 
 use an official seal and alter the same at pleasure, and its proceed- 
 ings and copies of all papers and documents in its possession or 
 custody may be authenticated in the usual form, under its official 
 seal and the signature of its president and secretary, which may 
 be used as evidence in all courts and places in this State, in like 
 manner as similar certificates by the secretary of State or any 
 other public officer. 
 
 § 2. Such board may, by its orders, from time to time, define 
 the duties of its officers, and regulate the discharge of its functions ; 
 and shall, also, provide for the holding of at least four meetings 
 during each year, which shall be public. Six members of the 
 board, regularly convened, shall constitute a quorum. The failure 
 on the part of any commissioner appointed as aforesaid to attend 
 any three successive public meetings of the board above provided 
 for, during any calendar year, may be treated by the governor as a 
 
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 resignation by such non-attending commissioner, and the vacancy 
 be tilled ; and the annual reports of said board shall give the 
 names of each commissioner present at each of the said public 
 meetings of the board. 
 
 § 3. One additional member of said board, who shall reside in 
 the county of Kings, and two who shall reside in the county Kew 
 York, shall be appointed for the term of eight years, in the same 
 manner as is provided in respect to the present commissioners. 
 
 § 4. The said board or any one or more of said commissioners, 
 are hereby authorized, whenever they may deem it expedient, to 
 visit and inspect any charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or 
 reformatory institution in this State, excepting prisons, whether 
 receiving State aid or maintained by municipalities or otherwise, 
 and also to visit and inspect any incorporated or private asylums, 
 institutions, homes or retreats, licensed for the detention, treatment 
 and care of the insane or persons of unsound mind, as hereinafter 
 provided for. 
 
 § 5. If, in the opinion of said board, or an y three members thereof, 
 any matter in regard to the management or affairs of any institu- 
 tion, subject to the visitation of said board, or to any inmate of any 
 such institution, or person in any way connected therewith, requires 
 legal investigation or action of any kind, notice thereof may be 
 given by the board or any three members thereof to the attorney- 
 general ; and it shall be his duty thereupon to make inquiry and 
 take such proceedings in the premises as he may deem necessary 
 and proper, and to report his action and the results thereof to the 
 said board without delay. 
 
 § 6. Said board shall have authority to require from the man- 
 agers and from the officers in charge of any institution it is author- 
 ized to visit, any information which said board may require in the 
 discharge of its duties, and may prepare regulations according to 
 which and provide blanks upon which such information shall be 
 furnished by any such officer and managers in a clear, uniform 
 and prompt manner, for use by such board. 
 
 § 7. The said board shall be authorized to collect (and as far as 
 it may think advantageous to embody in its annual reports) such 
 information, botli in this State and elsewhere, as it may deem 
 proper, relating to the best manner ot‘ dealing with those who 
 require assistance from the public funds, or who receive aid from 
 
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 private charity ; and to make such suggestions, from time to time, 
 as to any legislation or action which may be desirable in regard 
 thereto. The said board may also, from time to time, in its reports 
 to the legislature, pi'esent such views in regard to the best method 
 of caring for the pauper and destitute cliildren distributed through 
 the various institutions of this State, or are without the instruction 
 and guidance which the public welfare demands ; and also to fur- 
 nish in tabulated statements, as nearly as possible, the numbers, 
 sex, age and nativity of those in this State, and in the several 
 counties thereof, which are in any way receiving the aid of public 
 or private organized charity, with any other particulars they may 
 deem ]^roper. 
 
 § S. The said board shall have power, by a resolution to be 
 entered on its minutes, subject to such terms and regulations as it 
 may prescribe, to designate three or more suitable persons in any 
 county to act as visitors, in said county, of tlie several poor-houses 
 and other institutions therein, subject to the visitation of the board, 
 in aid of and as representatives of said board, except such institu- 
 tions as have a board of managers appointed by the State; and all 
 officers and others in charge of such institutions shall admit to said 
 institutions all such persons so designated, upon a production of a 
 copy of such resolution, certified by the president or secretary of 
 said board, to visit, exan}ine and inspect the grounds and build- 
 ings of every institution, and every part thereof, and all its hos- 
 pital and other arrangements, and to have free access to all its 
 inmates. Any officer, superintendent or person in charge of any 
 such institution, who shall refuse to admit any person so designated, 
 or shall refuse to give said visitors all requisite facilities for the 
 examination and inspection as herein provided for, shall be sub- 
 ject to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each such 
 refusal, which penalty may be sued for and recovered in the name 
 of the people of the State, by the attorney-general, and the sum 
 so recovered shall be paid into the treasury of this State. 
 
 § 9. No person, association or corporation shall establish or keep 
 an asylum, institution, house or retreat for the care custody or 
 treatment of the insane, or persons of unsound mind, without first 
 obtaining a license therefor from the said State board of charities, 
 provided that all persons, associations or corporations who, at the 
 time of the passage of this act, are engaged in keeping such 
 
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 asylums, institutions, houses or retreats, or in keeping insane per- 
 sons, or persons of unsound mind, for compensation or hire, shall 
 obtain such license within three months thereafter; and provided 
 further, that this section shall not apply to any State asylum or 
 institution, or any asylum or institution established or conducted 
 by any county, or by any city or municipal corporation chartered 
 by the legislature ; and provided, also, that it shall not apply to 
 cases where insane persons, or persons of unsound mind, are 
 detained and treated at the houses of their families or relatives. 
 
 § 10. Every application for such license shall be accompanied by 
 a plan of the premises proposed to be occupied, to be drawn on a 
 scale of not less than one-eighth of an inch to a foot, with a descrip- 
 tion of the situation thereof, and the length, breadth and height of, 
 and a reference by figure or letter to every room and apartment 
 therein, and a statement of the quantity of land not covered by any 
 building annexed to such liouse and appropriated to the exclusive 
 use, exei’cise and recreation of the patients proposed to be received 
 therein, and also a statement of the number of patients proposed 
 to be received into such house, and whether the license so applied 
 for is for the reception of male or female patients, or for both, and 
 if for the recej)tion of both, of the number of each sex proposed to 
 be received into such house, and for the means by which the one 
 sex may be kept distinct and apart from the other. And it shall 
 not be lawful for said board to grant any such license without hav- 
 ing first, either collectively or by a comitiittee thereof, visited the 
 premises proposed to be licensed, and, being satisfied by such exam- 
 ination that they conform to the description of the application, and 
 are otherwise fit and suitable for the purposes for which they are 
 designed to be used. 
 
 § 11. Whenever said State board of cliarities, upon the applica- 
 tion of any person, association or corporation, made as provided by 
 the preceding section of this act, and examination of the building 
 and means employed, or proposed to be employed, to take the care 
 of insane persons, or persons of unsound mind, by such person, asso- 
 ciation or corporation, shall determine that the same are sufficient 
 and proper for such purpose, the said board is hereby authorized 
 and required to grant such license, and to make such conditions, 
 terms and regulations, in regard thereto, as shall seem meet and 
 proper for the care and protection, health and comfort, and for the 
 
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 inspection and examination of all insane persons, or persons of 
 unsound mind, so lodged, boarded, kept or detained in such asy- 
 lum or institution, and of all insane persons, or persons of unsound 
 mind, in the charge or keeping of such person, association or cor- 
 poration ; which said license shall be filed in the office of the clerk 
 of the county in which such asylum or institution is situated. The 
 said board may revoke the license of any asylum or institution, 
 issued under the provisions of this act, for reasons deemed satis- 
 factory to said board ; but such revocation shall be in writing and 
 filed as aforesaid, and notice thereof given in writing to the per- 
 son, association or corporation to wliom such license was given. 
 
 § 12. After the expiration of three months from the passage of 
 this act, any ])erson or persons who shall conduct or maintain any 
 private insane asylum or institution, and the officers of any corpo- 
 ration who shall conduct or maintain such private asylum or insti- 
 tution without having obtained a license as herein provided, or for 
 more than thirty days after the revocation of such license, or shall 
 receive any patient after notice of such revocation, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and it shall be the duty of the district attorney 
 of the proper county to proceed against such offender as may be 
 provided by law. 
 
 § 13. The governor shall nominate, und by and wdth the advice 
 and consent of the senate, appoint an experienced and competent 
 physician, to be called the State Commissioner in Lunacy, who shall 
 hold his office for five years, and receive an annual salary of four 
 thousand dollars, and traveling expenses not to exceed one thousand 
 dollars, to be paid on presentation of vouchers to the comptroller; 
 and who shall ex-officio be a member of the State board of charities, 
 and shall make full report of all his official acts and visitations to 
 the said board, from time to time, under such regulations as the 
 said board may prescribe. The said board shall furnish such 
 assistance as the said commissioner may, in their opinion, require 
 to aid him in the proper and efficient discharge of the duties of his 
 office. {See chapter 446, title 10, of the Lavjs of 1874.) 
 
 § 14. It shall be the duty of such commissioner to examine into 
 and report to said board the condition of the insane and idiotic in 
 this State, and the management and conduct of the asylums and 
 other institutions for their custody. The duties of said commis- 
 sioner and those of said board in regard to the insane shall be per- 
 
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 formed, as far as practicable, so as not to prejudice the established 
 and reasonable regulations of such asylums and institutions afore 
 said ; and it sliall be the duty of the officers and others respectively 
 in charge thereof to give the members of said board and such com- 
 missioner at all times free access to and full information concerning 
 the insane and their treatment therein. It shall also be the duty 
 of such commissioner, under the direction of said board, to inquire 
 and report, from time to time, as far as he may be able, the results 
 of the treatment of the insane of other States and countries, to- 
 gether with such particulars pertaining thereto as he may deem 
 proper, or the said board may require ; and he shall perform such 
 other duties as the board may, from time to time, prescribe. The 
 authority conferred upon said board and commissioners to issue 
 compulsory process for the attendance of witnesses, administer 
 oaths and to examine persons under oath, is hereby conferred upon 
 said commissioner of lunacy in all cases where there is, in the 
 opinion of the board or said commissioner, from information given 
 to the board or to the said commissioner, or otherwise, reason to 
 believe that any person is unjustly deprived of liberty, or is im- 
 properly treated in any asylum, institution or establishmetit in this 
 State for the custody of the insane, and he shall report the testi- 
 timony taken in any investigation to the said board with his 
 opinions and conclusions thereon without delay. The said board 
 of commissioners may, in their report, from time to time, to the 
 legislature, suggest any improvements they think desirable for the 
 care and treatment of the insane, with such facts and information 
 pertaining thereto as they deem expedient and proper, and such 
 report shall be made annually on or before the fifteenth day of 
 January. {Same reference as last section.) 
 
 § 15 . This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, 
 
 Directing the Board of State Commissioners of Public 
 Charities to examine into the causes of the increase of 
 crime, pauperism and insanity. 
 
 Whereas^ It is well known that there is a vast increase of crime 
 and pauperism in this State; and. 
 
 Whereas^ It is desirable to have statistics in concise form, which 
 
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 shall show the various influences that are producing these effects ; 
 and, 
 
 Whereas^ It is important to the tax-payers of the State that they 
 be in possession of said information; therefore 
 
 Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the board of State com- 
 missioners of public charities be directed to examine into the causes 
 of the increase of crime, pauperism and insanity, with power to 
 examine the records of all public institutions, and institute incpiiries, 
 and for this purpose are authorized to employ such clerical aid as 
 may be necessary for that purpose, and submit tbeir report to the 
 next legislature, and without additional expense to the State, except 
 for services of a stenographer, who shall perform tlie duties of both 
 stenographer and clerk, at the usual compensation. 
 
 STATE OF NEW YOKE, [ 
 
 In Assembly, May 27, 1873, j 
 
 The foregoing resolution was duly yjassed. 
 
 By order of the Assembly. 
 
 JOHN O’DONNELL, 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 
 
 In Senate, May 29, 1873. f 
 
 The foregoing resolution was duly passed. 
 
 By order of the Senate. 
 
 CHAS. R. DAYTON, 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 Chapter 643. 
 
 An Act to provide for the support of government, and 
 for other purposes. 
 
 Passed May 29, 1873 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York^ represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 STATE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. 
 
 For the salary of the secretary of the commissioners of public 
 charities, twenty-flve hundred dollars; and for the traveling 
 2 
 
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 expenses of the commissioners and the secretary, and for office 
 expenses, clerk hire and contingencies of the State commissioners 
 of public charities, two thousand five hundred dollars. 
 
 Chapter 661. 
 
 An Act to provide for the support and care of State 
 
 paupers. 
 
 Passed June 7, 1873 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yoi\ represented in Senate ai^d 
 Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Every poor person who is blind, lame, old, impotent 
 or decrepit, or in any otlier way disabled or enfeebled, so as to be 
 unable by work to maintain himself, who shall apply for aid to any 
 superintendent or overseer of the poor or otlier officer charged 
 with the support and relief of indigent persons, and who shall not 
 have resided sixty days in any county of this State within one year 
 preceding the time of such application, shall be deemed to be a 
 State pauper, and shall be maintained as hereinafter provided. 
 
 § 2. The State board of charities is hereby authorized, from time 
 to time, on behalf of the State, to contract, for such time and on 
 such terms as it may deem proper, with the authorities of not more 
 than five counties or cities of this State, for the reception and 
 support, in the poor-houses or other suitable buildings of such • 
 counties or cities respectively, of such paupers as may be committed 
 to such poor-houses as provided by this act. The said board may 
 establish rules and regulations for the discipline, employment, 
 treatment and care of such paupers and for their discharge. Every 
 such contract shall be in writing, and be filed in the office of the 
 said board. The poor-houses or other buildings so contracted for, • 
 with the authorities of any county or city, while used for the pur- 
 poses herein mentioned, shall be appropriately designated by the 
 said board, and shall be known as State alms-houses. The said 
 board may from time to time direct the transfer of any such 
 paupers from one alms-house to another, and may give notice, from 
 time to time, to counties to which alms-house they shall send 
 paupers. 
 
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 § 3. The said board shall give notice to the county clerks of the 
 several counties of this State of tlie location of each of such alms- 
 houses, who thereupon shall cause such notice to be dnly promul- 
 gated to the superintendents and overseers of the poor and other 
 officers charged with the support and relief of indigent persons in 
 their respective counties. A circular from the secretary of said 
 board shall accompany such notice to each county clerk, giving all 
 necessary information respecting the commitment, support and 
 care of State paupers in such alms-houses, according to the pro- 
 visions of this act. 
 
 § 4. The county judge and justices of the peace of the several 
 counties of tliis State, and all police justices, upon the application 
 of any superintendent or overseer of the poor, or other officer 
 charged with tlie support and relief of indigent persons, and on 
 satisfactory proof being made tliat the person applying to such 
 officer for relief is a State pauper, as defined by the first section of 
 this act, shall by warrant directed to such officer, or other suitable 
 person, cause such pauper to be removed or conveyed to the 
 nearest State alms-house, and such pauper shall be maintained 
 therein until duly discharged. The application and all testimony 
 taken in any such proceeding, and the order for the issuing of any 
 warrant for the removal of any such pauper, shall be filed in the 
 office of the clerk of the county in which such proceeding shall be 
 had, and a copy of the same shall be forwarded by mail, within 
 five days thereafter, to the secretary of the State board of charities. 
 A verified statement of the expenses incurred by the officer, or 
 other person, in making such removal, shall be presented to the 
 officer issuing such warrant, who shall examine and audit the same, 
 and allow such expenses as have been actually and necessarily 
 incurred in such removal, a copy of which account and audit shall 
 be filed in the county clerk’s office. All such accounts for expenses 
 incurred by counties, cities and towns, by reason of the removal 
 of any such pauper, shall be paid by the treasurer of the county in 
 which such expenses were incurred, who shall render a statement 
 of the same to the comptroller on or before the third Tuesday in 
 October, annually, and which statement shall include all claims 
 for such charges to the first day of said October, and the same 
 shall be reimbursed by the State treasurer, on the warrant of the 
 comptroller, in like manner as other claims of counties against the 
 
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 State are now by law reimbursed, provided that no payment shall 
 be made by the State to any officer or other person for their time 
 or service in making any such removal. The comptroller may re- 
 quire such accounts to be accompanied by such statement of par- 
 ticulars and facts, and substantiated by affidavit, as may to him 
 seem proper. 
 
 § 5. The expenses for the support, treatment and care of all 
 persons who shall be sent as State paupers to such alms-hoiises, 
 shall be paid quarterly on the first days of January, April, July 
 and October in each year, to tlie treasurer of the county, or proj^er 
 city officer incurring the same, by the treasurer of the State on the 
 warrant of the comptroller, but no such expenses shall be ])aid to 
 any county or city until an account of tlie number of persons thus 
 supported, and the time that each shall have been respectively 
 maintained, shall have been rendered in due form and approved by 
 the State board of charities. 
 
 § 6. The keeper or principal officer in charge of each and all 
 such alms-houses shall enter the names of all persons received by 
 them under the provisions of this act, with such particulars in 
 reference to each as the said board, from time to time, may pre- 
 scribe, together with the names of the officer making the com- 
 plaint, and the jndge or justice by whom the commitment was 
 made, in a book to be kept for that purpose. Within three days 
 after the admission of any such person, such keeper or principal 
 officer shall transmit by mail the name of such person, with the 
 particulars hereinbefore mentioned, to the secretary of said board ; 
 and notice of the death, discharge or absconding of any such 
 person shall, in like manner, and within the time above named, 
 be thus sent to said secretary. The secretary of said board shall 
 cause the names of the paupers in each of said alms-houses, 
 furnished as above provided for, to be entered in a book to be kept 
 for that purpose in the office of said board, and he shall verily the 
 correctness thereof by comparison with the books kept in such 
 alms-houses as aforesaid, and by personal examination of the several 
 inmates thereof, and in any other manner the board, from time to 
 time, may direct ; and he shall furnish the said board, in tabulated 
 statements, on or before the second Tuesday in January, annually, 
 the number of inmates maintained in each and all of such alms- 
 houses during the preceding year, the number discharged, trans- 
 
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 ferred to other institutions, bound out or removed from the State, 
 and the number who died or left without permission during the 
 year, with such other particulars and information as the board 
 may require. 
 
 § 7. In addition to the visitation of the secretary of said board, 
 as hereinafter provided for, the said board shall cause each of such 
 alms-houses to be visited periodically by some member or members 
 of such board, who shall examine into the condition and manage- 
 ment of said alms-houses respectively, and make such report 
 thereof to the said board as may be deemed proper. 
 
 § 8. It shall be the duty of the secretary of said board to visit 
 and inspect each and all of the said alms-houses at least once in 
 every three months, and as much oftener as in his judgment it may 
 be expedient, or the board may direct. For the purposes of such 
 inspections the said secretary shall possess all the powers of a 
 member of the said board and also such further powers as are here- 
 inafter mentioned. It shall be the duty of the officer in charge of 
 each and every such alms-house to give to the said secretary free 
 access to all parts of the grounds, buildings, hospital and other 
 arrangements connected therewith, and to every inmate thereof, and 
 to extend to him the same facilities for the inspection of such alms- 
 house and its inmates as is required by law to be extended to said 
 board and commissioners, and in default thereof he shall be subject 
 to the same penalty as if access were denied to any member of said 
 board. 
 
 § 9. If any inmate of any such alms-house, when admitted, is 
 insane, or thereafter becomes insane or of unsound mind, and the 
 accommodations in said alms-house, in the opinion of said secretary, 
 are not adequate and proper for his treatment and care, the said 
 secretary may cause his removal to the appropriate State asylum 
 for insane, and he shall be received by the officer in charge of such 
 asylum and be maintained therein until duly discharged. The 
 expenses for the support, treatment and care of insane persons or 
 persons of unsound mind, so received in any State asylum, shall be 
 paid to the treasurer thereof by the treasurer of the State, on the 
 warrant of the comptroller, upon the account being duly rendered 
 and certified to by the secretary of said board; provided, however, 
 that such expenses shall not exceed those charged to counties, cities 
 
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 or towns for the support, treatment and care of insane persons or 
 persons of unsound mind in such asylum. 
 
 § 10. When any child under ten years of age shall be committed 
 to any such alms-house, the said secretary in his discretion may, 
 cause the transfer of such child to such orphan asylum in this State 
 as he may deem proper. The expenses for the maintenance and 
 care of such child thereafter, and until otherwise provided for, shall 
 be paid out of the State treasury on the certificate of said secretary, 
 in the same manner as provided in the preceding section as to the 
 maintenance and care of insane persons or persons of unsound 
 mind ; 2 )rovided, that such expenses shall not exceed the cost of 
 maintenance of such child in said alms-house. The said secretary, 
 also, in his discretion, may bind out any orphan or indigent child 
 which may be committed to any such alms-house or may be placed 
 in any orphan asylum as aforesaid, if a male child under twenty- 
 one years, or if a female, under the age of eighteen, to be clerks, 
 apprentices or servants until such child, if a male, be twenty-one 
 years old, or if a female, shall be eighteen years old, which bind- 
 ing shall be as efiectual as if such child had bound himself with 
 the consent of his father or other legal guardian. 
 
 § 11. Any person becoming an inmate of any such alms-house, 
 and expressing a ])reference to be sent to any State or country 
 where said pauper may have a legal settlement or friends, willing 
 to support or to aid in supporting him, the secretary of said board 
 may cause the removal of such pauper to such State or country ; 
 provided, in the judgment of said secretary, the interest of the 
 State and the welfare of the pauper will be promoted thereby ; 
 and the said secretary shall report, from time to time, to said board, 
 the names of all persons, removed under the provisions of this act, 
 the places whence removed, and the cost of the several removals. 
 
 § 12. The said secretary of the said State board of charities, 
 before entering upon his duties under this act, shall take and sub- 
 scribe the constitutional oath of office, which shall be filed in the 
 office of tlie secretary of State. In addition to the powers herein- 
 before conferi-ed upon said secretary, he shall possess and exercise 
 the like powers, and be subject to the like duties as to such State 
 ])au})ers as su})erintendents of the poor exercise and are subject to 
 in the care and support of county paupers. In case of the illness, 
 absence, or other inability of said secretary, from any cause, to 
 
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 perform his duties, they may be temporarily performed and dis- 
 charged by any other person or persons to be appointed by said 
 board for such purpose. 
 
 § 13. If any inmate of either of said alms-houses shall leave the 
 same without being duly discharged, and within one year there- 
 after is found in any city or town of this State soliciting public or 
 private aid, he may be punished by confinement in the county 
 jail of the county in which so found, for a term not exceeding 
 three months, or he may be committed for a like term to any work- 
 house of this State, by any court of competent jurisdiction, and it 
 shall be the duty of every superintendent and overseer of the poor 
 and other officers charged with the support and relief of indigent 
 persons, to cause, as far as may be, the provisions of this section to 
 be enforced. 
 
 § 14. The terms alms-house ” and “ State alms-house,” as used 
 in this act, are to be applied to the county or city poor-houses or 
 other buildings in which State paupers are being maintained, as 
 herein provided for ; the words superintendent ” and ‘‘ county 
 superintendent ” mean county superintendent of the poor ; and 
 the words ‘‘overseer” and “overseers of the poor” mean town 
 and city overseers of the poor. 
 
 § 15. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to be paid for 
 the purposes of this act, out of any moneys in the State treasury 
 not otherwise appropriated, for the removal of paupers and their 
 maintenance and care as herein provided for, and for the contin- 
 gent and miscellaneous expenses attending the execution of this 
 act, to be certified and allowed by the said State board of charities. 
 
 § 16. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
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 [Laws of 1874.] 
 
 Chapter 323. 
 
 An Act making appropriations for certain expenses of 
 government, and supplying deficiencies in former 
 appropriations. 
 
 Passed May 5, 1874 ; by a two-third vote. 
 
 The People of the State of New York^ represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 [exteact.] 
 
 For the State board of charities, to be expended as the said board 
 may deem proper, under the joint resolution of the senate and 
 assembly of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in regard to the 
 causes of the increase of crime, pauperism and insanity, the sum 
 of three thousand dollars, including any expenses which have been 
 already incurred. 
 
 Chapter 398. 
 
 An Act to provide for the support of government and for 
 
 other purposes. 
 
 Passed May 9, 1874; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 [exteact.] 
 
 STATE COMMISSIONEES OF PUBLIC CHAEITIES. 
 
 For the salary of the secretary of the State board of charities, 
 twenty-five hundred dollars ; and for the traveling expenses of the 
 commissioners and the secretary, and for office expenses, clerk hire 
 and contingencies of tlie State board of charities, two tliousand 
 five hundred dollars. 
 
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 Chapter 446. 
 
 An Act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the 
 State relating to the care and custody of the insane ; 
 the management of the asylums for their treatment 
 and safe keeping, and the duties of the State commis- 
 sioner in lunacy. 
 
 Passed May 12, 1874; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The Peojple of the State of New York^ represented in Senate and 
 Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 TITLE FOURTH. 
 
 THE WILLARD ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. 
 
 § 10. The chronic pauper insane from the poor-houses of the 
 counties that sliall be designated, as provided in section two, of 
 this article, shall be sent to tlie said asylum by the county super- 
 intendents of the poor, and all the chronic insane pauper patients 
 who may be discharged not recovered from State lunatic asylums, 
 and who continue a public charge, shall be sent to the asylum for 
 the insane hereby created ; and all such patients shall be a charge 
 upon the respective counties from which they are sent. And all 
 the chronic insane paupers of the several counties of the State 
 shall be sent to said asylum by the superintendents of the poor, 
 except from those counties having asylmns for the insane, to which 
 they are now authorized to send such insane patients by special 
 legislative enactments, or such counties as have been, or may here- 
 after be, exempted by the State board of charities. 
 
 TITLE NINTH. 
 
 LICENSES FOR PRIVATE' ASYLUMS. 
 
 Section 1. No person or association shall establish or keep an 
 asylum, institution, house or retreat for the care, custody or 
 treatment of the insane or persons of unsound mind, for compen- 
 sation or hire, without first obtaining a license therefor from the 
 State commissioner in lunacy ; provided that this section shall not 
 apply to any State asylum or institution, or any asylum or institu- 
 tion established or conducted by any county ; and provided, also. 
 
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 that it shall not apply to cases where an insane person or person 
 of unsound mind is detained and treated at his own house or that 
 of some relative. > 
 
 § 2. Every application for such license shall be accompanied by 
 a plan of the premises proposed to be occupied, describing the 
 capacities of the buildings for the uses intended, the extent and 
 location of grounds appurtenant thereto, and the number of 
 patients of either sex proposed to be received therein ; and it shall 
 not be lawful for said commissioner to grant any such license 
 without having first visited the premises proposed to be licensed, 
 and being satisfied by such examination that they are as described, 
 and are otherwise fit and suitable for the purposes for which they 
 are designed to be used. 
 
 TITLE TENTH. 
 
 STATE COMMISSIONER IN LUNACY. 
 
 Section 1. The Governor shall nominate and, by and with the 
 advice and consent of the Senate, appoint an experienced and com- 
 petent physician, who shall be designated as the State commissioner 
 in lunacy, who shall hold his ofiice for five years and receive an 
 annual salary of four thousand dollars, and traveling and other 
 incidental expenses, not to exceed one thousand dollars, to be paid 
 on presentation of vouchers to the comptroller. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of such commissioner to examine into 
 and report annually to the legislature, on or before the fifth day of 
 January, the condition of the insane and idiotic in this State, and 
 the management and conduct of the asylums, public and private, 
 and other institutions for their care and treatment. The duties of 
 said commissioner in regard to the insane shall be performed so as 
 not to prejudice the established and reasonable regulations of such 
 asylums and institutions aforesaid ; and it shall be the duty of the 
 officers and others respectively in charge thereof to give such com- 
 missioner, at all times, free access to and full information concern- 
 ing the insane and their treatment therein. It shall also be the 
 duty of such commissioner to inquire and report, from time to 
 time, as far as he may be able, the results of the treatment of the 
 insane of other States and countries, together with such particulars 
 pertaining thereto as he may deem proper. 
 
 § 3. The said commissioner shall have power to make and use 
 
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 an official seal, and all copies of papers and documents in liis pos- 
 session and custody may be authenticated in the usual form, under 
 his official seal and signature, and used as evidence in all courts 
 and places in this State, in like manner as similar certificates ema- 
 nating from any other public officer. 
 
 §4. The said coinmissiotier is hereby* empowered to issue com- 
 pulsory process for the attendance of witnesses and the production 
 of papers; to administer oaths and to examine persons under oath 
 in all cases where, from evidence laid before him, there is reason to 
 believe that any person is wrongfully deprived of his liberty, or is 
 cruelly, negligently or improperly treated in any asylum, institu- 
 tion or establishment, public or private, for the custody of the 
 insane ; and if the same shall be proved to his satisfaction, it shall 
 be his duty to report the facts, together with his conclusions thereon, 
 to a justice of the supreme court, who shfjll thereupon grant the 
 necessary relief. 
 
 § 5. The superintendent or keeper of every county poor-house, 
 city alms-house or other asylums where insane paupers are kept, 
 shall, on or before the fifteenth day of November in each and every 
 year, report to the State commissioner in lunacy the numbers of 
 male and female insane, idiots and epileptics in his custody on the 
 first day of November last past, together with a statistical exhibit 
 of the number of admissions, discharges and deaths that have 
 occurred within the past year among that class of persons, and the 
 average weekly cost of their maintenance. He shall also state the 
 actual condition of those discharged and the causes of death in 
 those dying within the institution. 
 
 § 6. Any superintendent or keeper of a county poor-house, city 
 alms-house or other asylum where insane paupers are kept, who 
 shall neglect to report as above cited, shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and, on conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than 
 fifty dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, and it 
 shall be the duty of the district attorney of the proper county to 
 proceed against such offenders according to law. 
 
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 Chapter 464. 
 
 An Act to amend an ‘‘Act to provide for the support and 
 care of State paupers,” passed June seventh, eighteen 
 hundred and seventy-three. 
 
 Passed May 18, 1874; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of. New York, represented in Senate 
 and Assemljly, do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Section two of the act entitled ‘An act to provide 
 for the support and care of State paupers,” passed June seventh, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is hereby amended so as to 
 read as follows : 
 
 § 2. The State board of charities is hereby authorized, from time 
 to time, on behalf of the State, to contract, for such time and on 
 such terms as it may deem proper, with the authorities of not more 
 than fifteen counties or cities of this State, for the reception and 
 support, in the poor-houses or other suitable buildings of such 
 counties or cities respectively, of sucli paupers as may be com- 
 mitted to such poor-houses, as provided by this act. The said 
 board may establish rules and regulations for the discipline, 
 employment, treatment and care of such paupers and for their 
 discharge. Every such contract shall be in writing, and be filed in 
 the office of the said board. The poor-houses or other buildings 
 so contracted for with the authorities of any county or city, while 
 used for the purposes herein mentioned, shall be appropriately 
 designated by the said board, and shall be known as State alms- 
 houses. The said board may from time to time direct the transfer 
 of any such paupers from one alms-house to another, and may give 
 notice from time to time to counties to which alms-houses they 
 shall send paupers. 
 
 § 2. The fifteenth section of the said act, passed June seventh, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is amended by adding thereto 
 as follows: And also for clerk hire, and the compensation of an 
 assistant secretary for said board, to be certified and allowed in like 
 manner. The assistant secretary shall discharge such duties as the 
 board may designate,' and in case of a vacancy in the office of 
 secretary of said board, or in his absence or illness, the duties of 
 
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 the office of secretary in the mean time may be discharged by such 
 ’ assistant secretary. 
 
 § 3. This act shall take effect itn mediately. 
 
 [Laws of 1875.] 
 
 Chapter 140. 
 
 An Act to provide for a better system of records of the 
 inmates of poor-houses and alms-houses. 
 
 Passed April 22, 1875. 
 
 The People of the State of New York^ represented in Senate and 
 Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. In addition to a general register of the inmates of 
 the various poor-houses and alms-houses of this State, there shall 
 hereafter be kept in each sucii poor-house and alms-house, a record 
 as to the sex, age, birth-place, birth of parents, education, habits, 
 occupation, condition of ancestors and family relations, and the 
 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 cliarities, upon forms prescribed, 
 and furnished by said board. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of the superintendents and overseers of 
 the poor, and other officers charged with the relief and support of 
 indigent persons, to furnisli the keepers or other proper officers in 
 charge of such poor-houses and alms-houses, as full information as 
 practicable in relation to each person sent or brought by them to 
 such |.>oor-house or alms-house, and the said keeper or other officer 
 in charge of such poor-house or altns-house shall record the 
 information thus obtained, at the time of the admission of such 
 person, on the forms thus furnished. All such records shall be 
 preserved in such poor-houses and alms houses, and it shall be the 
 duty of the keepers or other officers in charge thereof, to make and 
 forward copies of the same, on the first day of each month, to the 
 State board of charities. 
 
 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of October, eighteen 
 hundred and seventy-five. 
 
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 Chapter 173* 
 
 An Act to provide for the better care of pauper and 
 destitute children. 
 
 Passed April 24, 1875; three-fiftlis being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yorh, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. On and after January first, eighteen hundred and 
 seventy six, it shall not be lawful for any justice of the peace, 
 police justice or other magistrate, to commit any child, over three 
 and under sixteen years of age, as vagrant, trnant or disorderly, to 
 any county poor-house of this State, or for any county superin- 
 tendent or overseer of the poor, or other officer, to send any such 
 child as a pauper to any such poor-house for support and care, 
 unless such child bean unteachable idiot, an epileptic, or paralytic, 
 or be otherwise defective, diseased or deformed, so as to render it 
 unfit for family care, but such justice of the peace, police justice 
 or other magistrate, and also such county superintendent or over- 
 seer of the poor or other officer, shall commit or send such child 
 or children not above exempted to some orphan asylum or other 
 charitable or reformatory institution, as now provided for by law. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of the county superintendents of the 
 poor, or other proper officers charged with the support and relief 
 of indigent persons of the several counties of this State, in which 
 there are county poor-houses, to cause the removal of all children, 
 between the age of three and sixteen years (not exempted by the 
 first section of this act) from their respective poor-houses, on or 
 before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, 
 and also to cause the removal of those who may hereafter come 
 under the care and control, or hereafter be born in such poor- 
 houses, before they shall have arrived at the age of three years, 
 and provide for their support and care in families, orphan asylums 
 or other appropriate institutions as now provided for by law ; 
 and the boards of supervisors of tlui several counties are hereby 
 
 * Although the State board of charities is not named in the act, it is inserted 
 on account of the interest which attaches to the subject, the board, in their report 
 of 1875, having called the attention of the legislature to the propriety of such an 
 enactment. 
 
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 required to take such action in the matter as may be necessary to 
 carry out the provisions of this act. In placing any such cliild in 
 any such institution it shall be the duty of the officer, justice or 
 person placing it there, to commit such child to an orphan asylum, 
 charitable or other reformatory institution that is governed or con- 
 trolled by officers or persons of the same religious faith as the 
 parents of such child, as far as practicable. 
 
 Chapter 308. 
 
 An Act to amend chapter six hundred and sixty-one of 
 the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, en- 
 titled ‘‘An act to provide for the support and care 
 of State paupers.” 
 
 Passed May 14, 1875 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yorh, Tepresented in Senate 
 and AssemMy^ do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Section four of chapter six hundred and sixty-one of 
 the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled “ An act 
 to provide for the support and care of State paupers,’’ is hereby 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 § 4. The county judge and justices of the peace of the several 
 counties of this State, and all police justices and county superin- 
 tendents of the poor on satisfactory proof being made that the per- 
 son so applying for relief is a State pauper, as defined by the first 
 section of this act, shall by warrant cause such person to be 
 removed or conveyed to the nearest State alms-house and such 
 pauper shall be maintained therein until duly discharged. All 
 testimony taken in any such proceeding shall be forwarded by 
 mail within five days thereafter to the secretary of the State board 
 of charities. A verified statement of the expenses incurred by the 
 person in making such removal shall be sent to the said secretary^ 
 And the State board of charities shall examine and audit the same 
 and allow such expenses as have been actually and necessarily 
 incurred in making such removal, provided that no allowance shall 
 he made to any person for their time or service in making such 
 removal. All such accounts for expenses in making such removals 
 shall be paid by the State treasurer on the warrant of the comp- 
 
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 troller, to the person incurring the same; but no such account 
 shall be paid until it shall be certified and allowed by the said 
 State board of charities. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Chapter 373. 
 
 An Act to provide for the support of government. 
 
 Passed May 17, 1875 ; three-fifths being present. 
 
 The People of the State of Neiv Yorlc^ represented in Senate and 
 Assembly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 [extract.] 
 
 STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. 
 
 For tlie salary of the secretary of the State board of charities, 
 three thousand five hundred dollars. For traveling expenses of 
 the commissioner and secretarj^, and for office expenses, clerk hire 
 and contingencies of the State board of charities, four thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 For the support and care of State paupers, in pursuance of chap- 
 ter six hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-three, and chapter four hundred and sixty-four of the laws 
 of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, twenty-five thousand dollars. 
 
 Chapter 634. 
 
 An Act making appropriations for certain expenses of 
 government, and supplying deficiencies in former appro- 
 priations. 
 
 Passed June 21, 1875 ; by a two-third vote. 
 
 The People of the State of New Yorh^ represented in Senate and 
 Asseinhly^ do enact as follows : 
 
 For the support and care of State paupers, pursuant to chapter 
 six hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-three for deficiency in appropriation, five thousand dollars. 
 
33 
 
 STATE AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS 
 
 « 
 
 SUBJECT TO 
 
 THE VISITATION OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES. 
 
 State Institutions for the Insane. 
 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Date of 
 opening. 
 
 Superintendent. 
 
 
 Utica 
 
 1843 
 
 Dr. John P. Gray. 
 
 Dr. John B. Chapin. 
 Dr. <1. M. Cleveland. 
 
 
 Willard. . .. 
 
 18()9 . 
 
 Hudson River State Hospital — 
 
 Buft’alo State Asylum for the Insane 
 
 Poughkeepsie. 
 Buffalo 
 
 1871 
 
 State Ilomoeopatliic Asylum for the Insane.. . . 
 
 Middletown .. 
 
 
 Dr. H. R. Stiles. 
 
 State Institutions for the Blind. 
 
 
 New York Institution for the Blind 
 
 1 New York City 1 
 Batavia | 
 
 1832.... 
 
 1 William B. Wait 
 
 New York State Institution for the Blind 
 
 1868 
 
 1 Mrs. A. D. Lord. 
 
 State Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb. 
 
 New Y ork Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . . 
 
 Central New York Institution for Deaf Mutes.. 
 Institution for the Improved Instruction of 
 
 New York City 
 
 Rome 
 
 1818 
 
 Isaac L. Peet, Prin. 
 Dr.Wm. Porter, Sup. 
 
 Deaf Mutes 
 
 New York City 
 Buffalo 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 
 D . G r e e nbe rge r , Pri n 
 
 Le Couteulx St. Mary’s Deaf and Dumb Asylum 
 St. Joseph’s Institution for the Improved In- 
 struction of Deaf Mutes 
 
 1853 
 
 State Institution for Idiots. 
 
 • 
 
 New York Asylum for Idiots | 
 
 Svracuse | 
 
 1 1851 
 
 1 Dr. H. B. Wilbur. 
 
 State Institution for Inebriates. 
 
 
 New York State Inebriate Asylum | 
 
 Binghamton .. 
 
 1 1864 
 
 1 Dr. Dan’l G. Dodge. 
 
 State Reformatory Institutions. 
 
 
 New York House of Refuge 
 
 Randall’s Isl’d, 
 New Y'ork City 
 
 1852. ... 
 
 Israel C. Jones. 
 
 Western House of Refuge 
 
 Rochester 
 
 1849 
 
 Levi S. Fulton. 
 
 State Alms-Houses. 
 
 (Uesignated under act, chapter GGl, Laws of 1873.) 
 
 STATE ALMS-HOUSES. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Date of Contract. 
 
 ! 
 
 Accommodations 
 for State Pau- 
 pers. 
 
 Albany city ' 
 
 Albany 
 
 October 1, 1873.... 
 
 200 
 
 Suffolk county 
 
 Yaphank 
 
 October 1, 1873. . 
 October 1,1873.... 
 
 150 
 
 Delaware county 
 
 Delhi 
 
 50 
 
 St. Lawrence county 
 
 Canton 
 
 October 1, 1873... 
 October 1, 1873. . ^ 
 
 150 
 
 Erie county 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 200 
 
 Broome county 
 
 Binghamton 
 
 January 1, 1875 
 
 50 
 
 Jefferson county 
 
 Watertown 
 
 January 1, 1875 
 
 January 1, 1875. . . 
 
 50 
 
 Onondaga county 
 
 Syracuse 
 
 100 
 
 Kings county 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 June 20, 1875. .. 
 
 200 
 
 Oneida county 
 
 Rome 
 
 December 28, 1875. 
 January 1, 1876. . 
 
 25 
 
 Seneca county 
 
 Waterloo 
 
 25 
 
 3 
 
84 
 
 County Poor-Houses. 
 
 
 
 Keeper. 
 
 
 Superintendents op the Poor. 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Date of 
 appointment. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Albany 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1, 1870 
 
 1, 1874 
 
 G. W. Hoxsie* 
 
 Albany. 
 
 Belmont. 
 
 Allegany 
 
 
 Henrv Wier. 
 Jas. G. Hall . 
 
 J an . 
 
 A. C. Hall 
 
 Broome' 
 
 Bii^ghamton 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1, 1874 
 
 E. Spaulding. . 
 C. T. Lowden. 
 
 Binghamton. 
 
 Cattaraugus . . . 
 
 Machias 
 
 Wm. P'ollett. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1, 1857 
 
 Yorksh’e C’re. 
 
 Cayuga 
 
 Sennett 
 
 E. L. Phelps. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1, 1861 
 
 F. Strickland, 
 A. S. Lamper. . 
 M. M. Olmsted 
 
 Red House. 
 
 Rutledge. 
 
 Auburn. 
 
 Chautauqua . . . 
 
 Dewittville. . . 
 
 Will’d Wood 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1863 
 
 John Bootey.. 
 
 Jamestown. 
 
 Chemung 
 
 
 Eirt Griggs. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 3, 1864 
 
 H. C. Taylor .. 
 D. J. Maples. . 
 J. M. Griffin.. 
 
 Brocton. 
 
 Forestville. 
 
 Elmira. 
 
 Chenang"o 
 
 Preston . 
 
 Neh. Leach.. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 S. E. Lewis. . . 
 
 Oxford. 
 
 Clinton 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1870 
 
 S. W. Berry.. 
 
 J. P. Thorpe. . 
 W. S. Lanroy. 
 C. A. Schilling 
 
 Cyrus Link 
 
 E. Kendall ... 
 S. Blanchard.. 
 
 EastPharsalia. 1 
 Co van try. j 
 
 Plattsburgh. | 
 Canaan 4 Cors. i 
 
 Columbia 
 
 Ghent 
 
 A. Wilbur... 
 
 Cortland 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1868 
 
 E. Taghkauic. 1 
 Valatie. 
 
 Homer. j 
 
 Delaware 
 
 Delhi 
 
 A. Peaster. . . 
 
 1, 1872 
 
 E. A. Gallup.. 
 
 Hobart. 1 
 
 Dutchess 
 
 Wash’n Hollow, 
 
 W WodelLsup 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1871 
 
 Enos B. Fisher 
 Michael Miller 
 Walter Wodell 
 
 Sidney Centre. 
 Brushland. ' 
 
 Washington. , 
 
 Erie 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 C.A.Lceberick 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1874 
 
 Oscar H. Sowle 
 
 Hamburgh. [ 
 
 Essex 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1863 
 
 Benajah Tyrrel 
 H. P. Wilson.. 
 
 Schroon. 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Malone 
 
 M. C. Tuller. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 Bangor. : 
 
 Gloversville. I 
 
 Fulton 
 
 Gloversville. . . 
 
 L. S. Capron 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 Lab. S. Capron 
 
 Genesee 
 
 Bethany 
 
 H. Wait 
 
 Mar. 
 
 17,1874 
 
 Ben. Griswold. 
 
 Darien. 
 
 Greene 
 
 Ca.i ro 
 
 J. A. Mower 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1867 
 
 L. S. Stebbins. 
 Cort. Crossman 
 Luke Roe. . . . 
 
 Bethany. 1 
 
 Alexander. | 
 
 Cairo. ' 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 (No poor-house) 
 
 Middleville ... 
 
 David Sturges. 
 A. J. Dupont.. 
 L. W. Sloan.. 
 Philip Harter* 
 
 Lake Pleasant. 
 
 Herkimer 
 
 P. Harter.. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 Morehou Seville 
 Newton’s C’rs. 
 Middleville. 
 
 Jefferson 
 
 Watertown . . . 
 
 H. Strong. .. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1861 
 
 H. Strong*. . . 
 
 Watertown. 
 
 Lewis 
 
 Lowville 
 
 P. Green . . . 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1872 
 
 Win Boshart. 
 
 Lowville. 
 
 Livingston ... 
 
 Geneseo 
 
 G.H. Barney, 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1867 
 
 Joseph C. Otis 
 C. M. Merriam 
 G. H. Barney.. 
 
 Denmark. I 
 
 Locust Grove. 
 Mount Morris. 
 
 Madison 
 
 Eaton 
 
 Supt. 
 
 J. F.Wheeler 
 
 Nov. 22. 1874 
 
 Allen Curtis.. . 
 
 Madison. 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Rochester 
 
 E.H. Howard 
 
 Apr. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 Z. J. Moseley. 
 N. M. Chaffee.. 
 G.E.McGonegal 
 Martin Briggs. 
 
 Georgetown. 
 
 Oneida. 
 
 Rochester. 
 
 Montgomery . . 
 
 Fultonville .... 
 
 R. Wemple. . 
 
 13, 1870 
 
 St. Johusville. 
 
 Niagara 
 
 Lockport 
 
 G.W. Rector 
 
 Apr. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1868 
 
 O. C. Gibson.. 
 
 Lockport. 
 
 Westmoreland 
 
 Oneida 
 
 Rome 
 
 M. Cheney. . 
 H. R. Knapp 
 
 1, 1861 
 
 R. Morrison... 
 
 Onondaga 
 
 Onondaga Hill. . 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1, 1874 
 
 H. H. Loomis. 
 
 Cicero. 
 
 Ontario 
 
 Canandaigua . . . 
 
 C. Spear . . . 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1, 1874 
 
 J. H. Benham. 
 
 Hopewell C’re. 
 Reed’s Corn’s. 
 Canandaigua. 
 Goshen. 
 
 Orange 
 
 Goshen 
 
 P.A.Millsp’gh 
 
 Apr. 
 
 L 1871 
 
 W. B. Witter.. 
 C. E. Shepard. 
 J. H. Goodale. 
 
 Orleans 
 
 Alhion 
 
 G. Clark, sup. 
 Gallet Tullar 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1873 
 
 Geo. Clark. .. 
 
 Albion. i 
 
 Oswego 
 
 Mexico 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1867 
 
 E. M. Baldwin 
 
 Fulton. i 
 
 Otsego 
 
 Cooperstown . . . 
 
 S.H.Teachout 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1874 
 
 C. Wiltse 
 
 D. Edick 
 
 L. W. Rathbon 
 
 Hannibal. 1 
 
 Parish. ' 
 
 E. Springfield. ; 
 
 Putnam 
 
 Queens 
 
 Rensselaer 
 
 Carmel 
 
 Freeport 
 
 Troy 
 
 K. Henion . . 
 C. Wright... 
 
 L. Morey 
 
 Sep. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 15, 1874 
 
 1873 
 
 (No superin’t.) 
 C. A. Powell.. 
 J. Anderson... 
 
 1 J. L. Pearsall.. 
 M. P. De Freest 
 
 Hempstead. 
 
 Hempstead. 
 
 Roslyn. 
 
 , Troy. 
 
 Richmond 
 
 N ew Dnrp 
 
 T. McCormick 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1870 
 
 J. Denison 
 
 W. McChesney 
 D. R. Decker. 
 
 Berlin. 
 
 Brunswick. 
 
 Graniteville. 
 
 
 
 Geo. Wilson.. 
 J.C.Dissosway 
 Eman. Kappes 
 D. Dempsey .. 
 
 Stapleton. 
 
 Westfield. 
 
 Edgewater. 
 
 New Brighton. 
 
 * Appointed by the Board of Supervisors. 
 
35 
 
 County Poor-Houses — {Concluded). 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Keeper. 
 
 Superintendents of the Poor. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Date of 
 appointment. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Rockland . ... 
 
 Monsey 
 
 J.Van Houten 
 
 Apr. 15, 1861 
 
 Wm. Server.. . 
 
 Monsey. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thos. Dinan.. 
 
 Piermont. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jas. A. Barnes 
 
 Haverstraw. 
 
 St. Lawrence. 
 
 Canton 
 
 G.L.TownsPy 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1870 
 
 D. Fields 
 
 Ogdensburgh. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 G. Robinson.. 
 
 Canton. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 F. P. Balch . . . 
 
 Massena. 
 
 Saratoera 
 
 Ballston 
 
 G. D. Story. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1872 
 
 Z. Lawrence.. 
 
 Greenfield. 
 
 
 
 
 Geo. W. King. 
 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Schenectady. . . 
 
 Schenectady . . . 
 
 P. Eygener. . 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 Harr’n Clute.. 
 
 Schenectady. 
 
 Schoharie 
 
 Middleburgh.... 
 
 A.Spickerm’n 
 
 June 24, 1868 
 
 David Zeh 
 
 Middleburgh. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 E. W. Prentiss 
 
 Altay. 
 
 Seneca 
 
 Waterloo 
 
 J. Hinckley. 
 
 Jan. 27, 1865 
 
 Wm. Parish... 
 
 Seneca Falls. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. S. Van Lew 
 
 Ovid Centre. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 W. H. Allen.. 
 
 Waterloo. 
 
 Steuben 
 
 Bath 
 
 E. Carrington 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1872 
 
 Esek Page 
 
 Haskinsville. 
 
 
 
 L. Carpenter. . 
 
 Wayne. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 J. S. McKay.. 
 
 Campbell. 
 
 Suffolk 
 
 Vaphank 
 
 J. Lowden.. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1873 
 
 S. R. Williams 
 
 Amityville. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 T. H. Corwin 
 
 Riverhead. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wm. T. Hulse 
 
 Port Jefferson. 
 
 Sullivan 
 
 Monticello 
 
 A. R. Dewey 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1874 
 
 Jas. Graham.. 
 
 Wurtzborough. 
 
 Tioga 
 
 Owego 
 
 C.P. Goodrich 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1871 
 
 E. S. Farnham 
 
 Owego. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 C. T. Woodford 
 
 Candor. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Benj. Golden.. 
 
 Factoryville. 
 
 Tompkins. . . . 
 
 Ulysses 
 
 T. M. Bower 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1873 
 
 M. T. Denman 
 
 Danby. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jno. M. Smith 
 
 Ithaca. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 P.H. Farrington 
 
 Jacksonville. 
 
 Ulster 
 
 New Paltz 
 
 B. J. Winne, 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1871 
 
 Benj. J. Winne 
 
 New Paltz. 
 
 
 
 Snpt. 
 
 
 Warren 
 
 Warrensburgh . 
 
 E. G. Hall. . . 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1869 
 
 Alex. T. Pasco 
 
 Warrensburgh. 
 
 Washington . . . 
 
 Argyle 
 
 G. S. Lake.. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1873 
 
 David Hall 
 
 Argyle. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 John M. Rea. . 
 
 Belcher. 
 
 Wayne 
 
 Lyons . . 
 
 Geo. Carver. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1, 1873 
 
 John G. Mead. 
 
 Macedon C’re. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 M. Cookingham 
 
 Lock Berlin. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Durf. Wilcox. . 
 
 South Sodus. 
 
 Westchester .. 
 
 White Plains. . . 
 
 W. Hammond 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1, 1867 
 
 Geo. Cooper. . . 
 
 Westchester. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Adam Palm, Jr 
 
 Mount Vernon. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wm. Mabie... 
 
 Peekskill. 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 Varysburgh 
 
 Sylv. Field . . 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 B. F. Bristol.. 
 
 Gainesville. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 John S. Rogers 
 
 North Java. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I. G. Hammond 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Yates 
 
 Jerusalem 
 
 A.T. Dunning 
 
 Sept. 
 
 1, 1875 
 
 Benj. F. Enos. 
 
 Penn Yan. 
 
36 
 
 City Alms-Houses. 
 
 ALMS-HOUSES. 
 
 Kings Co. {BrcoMn city) 
 
 Alms-house 
 
 Alms-house proper 
 
 Hospital 
 
 Incurahle Hospital 
 
 Lunatic Asylum 
 
 Kingston City Alms- 
 house 
 
 Newburgh City & Town 
 Alms-house 
 
 N. Y. City Alms-house 
 
 Bellevue Hospital 
 
 Charity Hospital 
 
 Small-pox Hospital 
 
 Fever Hospital 
 
 Alms-house proper 
 
 Hospital for Incurables. 
 
 Blind Asylum 
 
 Lunatic Asylum 
 
 Epileptic aucl Paralytic 
 
 Hospital 
 
 Asylum for Insane 
 
 Infants’ Hospital 
 
 Nurseries 
 
 Nursery Hospital 
 
 Idiot Asylum 
 
 Oswego City Alms-house 
 Poughk’psie City Alms- 
 house 
 
 Utica City Alms-house 
 and hospital 
 
 Location. 
 
 Resident Officers. 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 
 William Murray 
 
 Dr. P. L. Schenck 
 
 Flatbush 
 
 Kingston 
 
 Newburgh 
 
 Dr. Jas. A. Blanchard. 
 
 Isaac D. L. Montanye.; 
 
 William H. June 
 
 Ft. 26th st.,E. R.. 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 
 Blackwell’s Isl’d 
 Ward’s Island.. 
 Randall’s Island. 
 Randall’s Island. 
 Randall’s Island. 
 Randall’s Island. 
 Oswego 
 
 Boards of Control. 
 
 Dr. Daniel H. Kitchen 
 
 Dr. R. L. Parsons. 
 
 Theodore H. Kellogg. 
 Wiiliam H. Stephens.. 
 
 Commis’ers of Charities. 
 
 Commis’ers of Charities. 
 
 Commis’ers of Charities. 
 Com. of Char, and Cor. 
 
 Commis'ers of Charities. 
 
 Poughkeepsie . . | 
 Utica 
 
 R. T. Harding 
 
 Lawrence W. Dutcher.l Commis’ers of Charities. 
 David Dimbleby | Commis’ers of Charities. 
 
 Town Poor-Houses. 
 
 TOWN 
 
 POOR-HOUSES. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Resident Officers. 
 
 Boards of Control. 
 
 Hempstead Town Poor- 
 
 House 
 
 Oyster Bay and North 
 Hempstead Town 
 
 Poor-Honsft 
 
 Hempstead .... 
 
 Brookville .... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
37 
 
 Orphan Asylums and Homes for the Friendless. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Date of 
 incorporation. 
 
 Albany Orphan Asylum . . 
 
 Albany Guardian Society and Home for the 
 
 J^riendless 
 
 American Female Guardian Society and 
 
 Home for the Friendless 
 
 Association for Befriending Children and 
 
 Young Girls, New York 
 
 Association for the Relief of Respectable 
 
 Aged Indigent Females, New York 
 
 Asylum of Our Lady of Refuge, Buffalo. . . . 
 Baptist Home for the Aged 
 
 Brooklyn Industrial School Association and 
 
 Home for Destitute Children 
 
 Brooklyn Industrial School Associat'n, E. D. 
 
 Brooklyn Nursery 
 
 Buffiilo Orphan Asylum 
 
 Cayuga Asylum lor Destitute Children, Au- 
 burn 
 
 Chapin Home for the Aged and Infirm, N. Y. 
 Charity Foundation of the Protestant Episco- 
 pal Church, Buffalo 
 
 Children’s Aid Society, Brooklyn . . 
 
 Children’s Aid Society, New York 
 
 Children’s Fold, New York 
 
 Children’s Friend Society, Albany 
 
 Children’s Home Socieiy (Day Home), Troy. 
 Church Charity Foundation, of Long Island. 
 
 Colored Home, New York 
 
 Colored Orphan Asylum, New York 
 
 Covenant of Sisters of Mercy, Brooklyn... 
 Davenport Female Orphan Asylum, Bath . . . 
 Evangelical Lutheran St. John’s Orphan 
 
 Home, Buffalo 
 
 Excelsior Farm 
 
 I’emale Christian Home, New York 
 
 Five Points House of Industry, New York.. 
 
 Five Points Mission, New York 
 
 German Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum... 
 Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum 
 
 Society, New York 
 
 Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, New 
 
 York 
 
 Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of 
 
 the Poor 
 
 Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of 
 
 the Poor 
 
 Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of 
 
 the Poor, New York 
 
 Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of 
 
 the Poor 
 
 Home for the Blind, New York 
 
 Home for Christian Care 
 
 Home for the Friendless, Auburn 
 
 Home for the Friendless, Buffalo 
 
 Home for the Friendless, Lockport.. 
 
 Home for the Friendless, Newburgh 
 
 Home for the Friendless, Rochester 
 
 Home for the Friendless, Schenectady 
 
 Home for the Homeless, Utica 
 
 Home for Fallen and Friendless Girls, New 
 
 York 
 
 Home for the Friendless of Northern New 
 
 York.. .. 
 
 House of the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn 
 
 House of the Good Shepherd, New York. . . 
 
 House of the Good Shepherd 
 
 House of the Good Shepherd 
 
 House for Idle and Truant Children 
 
 House of Mercy, New York 
 
 House of Shelter, Albany 
 
 Howard Colored Orphan Asylum 
 
 Howard Mission, New York 
 
 Hudson Orphan and Relief Association 
 
 Industrial School of the Sisters of Mercy... 
 
 Robin street, Albany 
 
 Clinton avenue, Albany 
 
 No. 29 East 29th st., N. Y. city.. 
 
 No. 136 Second ave., N. Y. city. . 
 
 No. 1.39 East 20th st., N. Y. city. . 
 
 Best street, Buffalo 
 
 E. 68th st., bet. Lex. and 4th ave- 
 nues, N. Y. city 
 
 Butler street, Brooklyn 
 
 Brooklyn, Eastern District 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Virginia street, Buffalo 
 
 Auburn 
 
 66th street, N. Y. city 
 
 Rhode Island street, Buffalo . . . 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Office No. 19 E. 4th st., N. Y. city. 
 No. 437 E. 58th st., N. Y. city . . . 
 
 Albany 
 
 Congress street, Troy 
 
 Albany avenue, Brooklyn 
 
 64th st., near 1st ave.. N. Y. city. 
 143d st. and 10th ave. I N. Y. city. 
 
 Willoughby ave., Brooklyn 
 
 Bath 
 
 No. 280 Hickory street, Buffalo.. 
 
 Rochester 
 
 No. 314 East 15th st., N. Y. city. 
 No 155 Worth st., N. Y. city ... 
 
 No. 61 Park st., N. Y. city 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 3d ave. and 77th st., N. Y. city.. 
 
 No. 322 IjCx. ave., N. Y. city 
 
 Albany 
 
 Brooklyn .' 
 
 No. 179 East 70th st., N. Y. city. 
 
 Troy 
 
 No. 219 W. 14th st., N. Y. city. . 
 
 New York city 
 
 Canal street. Auburn 
 
 Seventh street, Buffalo 
 
 Lockport 
 
 Montgomery street, Newburgh. . 
 
 East avenue, Rochester 
 
 No. 35 Green st.. Schenectady .. 
 Faxton street, Utica 
 
 No. 86 West 4th st., N. Y. city.. 
 
 Plattsburgh 
 
 No. 229 Henry street, Brooklyn. 
 89th st.. East river, N. Y. city. .. 
 Stony Point, Rockland county. . 
 
 Utica 
 
 Rochester 
 
 86th st.. North river, N. Y. city. 
 
 Albany 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 No. 40 New Bowery, N. Y. city. 
 
 State street, Hudson 
 
 Rochester 
 
 Mar. 
 
 .31, 1831 V 
 
 Jan. 
 
 6, 1852 
 
 April 
 
 6, 1849 
 
 Sept. 
 
 — , 1869 
 
 Feb. 
 
 14, 1814 
 
 Jan. 
 
 14, 1866 
 
 April 
 
 15, 1857 
 
 Mar. 
 
 26, 1860 
 
 April 
 
 24, 1837 
 
 May 
 
 10, 18.52 
 
 May 
 
 1, 1869 
 
 — 
 
 — , 1858 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1, 1855 
 
 Feb. 
 
 14, 1860 
 
 April 
 
 10, 1861 
 
 Mar. 
 
 13, 1851 
 
 May 
 
 8, 1845 
 
 May 
 
 16, 18.38 
 
 Mar. 
 
 8, 1865 • 
 
 April 
 
 15, 1862 
 
 April 
 
 14, 1865 
 
 Jan. 
 
 — , 1862 
 
 Mar. 
 
 3, 1854 
 
 Mar. 
 
 20, 1856 
 
 Aug. 
 
 6, 1856 
 
 Feb. 
 
 22, 1832 
 
 Nov. 
 
 21, 1848 
 
 Sept. 
 
 28, 1869 
 
 Aug. 
 
 23, 1871 
 
 April 
 
 — , 1868 
 
 July 
 
 31, 1865 
 
 Jan. 
 
 11, 1868 
 
 April 
 
 7, 1862 
 
 June 
 
 4, 18.55 
 
 Nov. 
 
 4, 1868 
 
 Nov. 
 
 19, 1866 
 
 — 
 
 — , 1866 
 
 Dec. 
 
 23, 1868 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1, 1868 
 
 — 
 
 — , 1870 
 
 Feb. 
 
 23, 1855 
 
 Sept. 
 
 7, 1868 
 
 — 
 
 — , 1861 
 
 April 
 
 21, 1846 
 
38 
 
 Orphan Asylums and Homes for the Friendless — {Continued). 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Location . 
 
 Inngleside Home, Buft’alo 
 
 Institution of Mercy (East Houston street), 
 
 New York 
 
 Institution of Mercy (Eighty-first street). 
 
 New Yoi'k 
 
 Isaac T. Hopper Home, New York 
 
 Jefferson County Orphan Asylum 
 
 Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Schenectady... 
 Ladies’ Union Aid Society (M. E. Church 
 
 Home), New York 
 
 Ladies’ Union Relief Association, New 
 
 York 
 
 Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum, New York 
 
 Madison County Orphan Asylum 
 
 Magdalen Benevolent Society 
 
 Mariners’ Family Asylum 
 
 Midnight Mission 
 
 New York Catholic Protectory 
 
 New York Foundling Asylum 
 
 New York Infant Asylum 
 
 New York Juvenile Asylum 
 
 New York Juvenile Guardian Society 
 
 New York Seaman’s Association 
 
 Nursery and Child’s Hospital, New York. . 
 
 Onondaga County Orphan Asylum 
 
 Ontario County Orphan Asylum 
 
 Orphan Asylum Society, Brooklyn 
 
 Orphan Asylum Society, New York 
 
 Orphans’ Home Asylum of the Holy Trinity 
 
 Church, Brooklyn, Eastern District 
 
 Orphans’ Home and Asylum of the Protest- 
 ant Episcopal Church, New York 
 
 Orphans’ Home, St. Peter’s Church, Albany 
 
 Orphan House of the Holy Saviour 
 
 Oswego Orphan Asylum 
 
 Poughkeepsie Orphan House and Home for 
 
 the Friendless 
 
 Presbyterian Home, New York 
 
 Protestant Episcopal Church Home, Roch- 
 ester 
 
 Rochester Industrial School 
 
 Rochester Home of Industry 
 
 Rochester Orphan Asylum 
 
 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn. 
 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, New York. 
 Samaritan Home for Aged Men and Women, 
 
 New York 
 
 Sheltering Arms, New York 
 
 Sheltering Arms Nursery (P. E. Church) 
 
 Shelter for Babies, New York 
 
 Shelter for Respectable Girls 
 
 Shepherd’s Fold, New York 
 
 Sisters of the Order of St. Dominick (Asy- 
 lum), New York 
 
 Society for the Protection of Destitute Ro- 
 man Catholic Children, Buffalo 
 
 Society for the Relief of Destitute Children 
 
 of Seamen 
 
 Society for the Relief of Half Orphan and 
 
 and Destitute Children, New York 
 
 Society for the Relief of Respectable Aged 
 
 Indigent Females 
 
 Southern Tier Orphans’ Home, Elmira 
 
 St. Barnabas’ House, New York 
 
 St. Francis’ Asylum 
 
 St. John’s Female Ori)han Asylum, Utica. . 
 
 St. Joseph’s Asylum, New York 
 
 St. Joseph’s Asylum and House of Provi- 
 dence 
 
 St. Joseph’s German Roman Catholic Or- 
 phan Asylum, Rochester 
 
 St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged, New York. 
 St. Joseph’s Male Orphan Asylum, Buffalo. . 
 St. Luke’s Home for Indigent Christian Fe- 
 males, New York 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 No. 33 E. Houston st., N. Y. city. 
 
 81st st., near 4th ave., N. Y. city. 
 
 No. 213 10th ave., N. Y. city 
 
 Watertown 
 
 Schenectady 
 
 W. 42d st., nearSth av., N. Y. city. 
 
 Cor. 22d st. and 5th av., N. Y. city. 
 10th av. and 112th st., N. Y. city. 
 
 Peterboro 
 
 88th st., near 5th ave., N. Y. city. 
 
 Staten Island 
 
 No. 260 Green street, N. Y. city. 
 
 Westchester, near N. Y. city 
 
 68th st., bet. 3d and Lex’gton avs. 
 
 No. 24 Clinton place 
 
 176th st. and 10th ave., N. Y. city. 
 
 New York city 
 
 New York city 
 
 Lex. av. and 51st st., N. Y. city.. 
 
 Syracuse 
 
 Canandaigua. 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 73d st. and 11th ave., N. Y. city.. 
 
 Graham ave., Brooklyn, E. D 
 
 Cor. 49th st. & Lex. av., N.Y. city 
 
 Albany 
 
 Cooperstown . . 
 
 Oswego 
 
 Poughkeepsie 
 
 73d st., near Mad. av., N. Y. city. 
 
 Rochester 
 
 No. 76 Exchange st., Rochester. . 
 
 Rochester 
 
 Hubbell Park, Rochester 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 New York city 
 
 No. 409 West 14th st., N. Y. city. 
 129th st., cor. 10th av., N. Y. city. 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 New York city 
 
 New York city 
 
 86th st., east of 2d av., N. Y. city. 
 
 No. 141 2d street, N. Y. city 
 
 West Seneca, near Buft’alo 
 
 Snug Harbor, Staten Island 
 
 No. 65 West 10th st., N. Y. city. . 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Elmira 
 
 304 Mulberry st., N. Y. city 
 
 No. 331 Pine street, Bufifalo 
 
 No. 60 John street, Utica 
 
 Cor. 89th st. and Av. A, N. Y. city. 
 
 Syracuse 
 
 No. 48 Andrews st., Rochester. . . 
 No. 205 West 15th st., N. Y. city. 
 West Seneca, near Bufi’alo 
 
 No. 487 Hudson st., N. Y. city... 
 
 Date of 
 Incorporation. 
 
 Nov. — , 1848 
 
 Sept. 8, 1869 
 
 — , 1845 
 
 May 11, 1859 
 Dec. 30, 1868 
 
 June 19, 1851 
 
 Jan. 12, 1867 
 — , 1843 
 
 Oct. 31, 1851 
 
 Feb. — , 1867 
 April 14, 1863 
 Oct. 9, 1869 
 Mar. 11,1865 
 June 30, 1851 
 Jan. 6, 1866 
 
 April 19, 1854 
 May 10, 1845 
 July 22, 1863 
 April 15. 1835 
 April 7, 1807 
 
 Nov. 23, 1861 
 
 June 20, 1859 
 
 Feb. 11, 1852 
 
 April —,1852 
 — , 1869 
 
 Sept. 21, 1869 
 April 15, 1857 
 
 Mar. 23, 1838 
 May 6, 1834 
 April 13,1852 
 
 — , 1866 
 
 Oct. 3, 1864 
 
 Mar. — , 1868 
 Dec. 20, 1869 
 April 25, 1864 
 May 27, 1851 
 April 27, 1837 
 
 Feb. 14, 1868 
 
 April 30, 1867 
 Mar. 28, 1849 
 April 15, 1859 
 
 April 23, 1863 
 May 11, 1868 
 Aug. 7, 1851 
 
 Jan. 12, 1854 
 
89 
 
 Orphan Asylums and Homes for the Friendless — {Concluded). 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Date of 
 incorporation. 
 
 St. Mary’s Boys’ Orphan Asylum, Rochester 
 
 St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum, Canandaigua 
 
 St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum, Dunkirk 
 
 St. Mai-y’s Orphan Asylum 
 
 St. Patrick’s Female Orphan Asylum, Roch- 
 ester 
 
 St. Patrick’s Orphan Asylum, Newburgh. .. 
 St. Peter’s German Roman Catholic Asso- 
 ciation, Roiulout . . 
 
 St. Stephen’s Orphan Asylum, New York .. 
 
 St. Thomas’ Orphan Asylum. Batavia 
 
 St. Vincentde Paul’s Industrial School, New 
 
 York 
 
 St. Vincent de Paul’s Orphan Asylum 
 
 St. Vincent de Paul Orphan Asylum, Syra- 
 cuse 
 
 St. Vincent’s Female Orphan Asylum, A1 
 
 bany 
 
 St. Vincent’s P’emale Orphan Asylum, Buf- 
 falo . 
 
 St. Vincent’s Female Orphan Asylum, Troy. 
 
 St. Vincent’s Home for Boys 
 
 St. Vincent’s Home for Boys 
 
 St. Vincent’s Infant Orphan Asylum, Buffalo 
 St. Vincent’s Male Orphan Asylum, Albany. 
 St. Vincent’s Male Orphan Asylum, Utica... 
 Susquehanna VTdley Home. Binghamton . . . 
 
 Syracuse Home Association 
 
 Temporary Home for Friendless Women 
 
 and Children 
 
 Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute 
 
 Indian Children, Versailles 
 
 Troy Catholic Male Orphan Asylum. 
 
 Troy Orphan Asylum 
 
 Truant Home 
 
 Union Home and School for the Education 
 and Maintenance of the children of our 
 
 Volunteers, N. Y 
 
 Utica Orphan Asylum 
 
 Wilson’s Industrial School for Girls, New 
 
 York 
 
 Women’s Aid Society and Home for Train- 
 ing Young Girls, New York 
 
 West avenue, Rochester 
 
 Canandaigua 
 
 Dunkirk 
 
 Port Jervis 
 
 Frank street, Rochester 
 
 Newburgh 
 
 Kingston Point Road, Rondout.. 
 
 East 28th st., N. Y. city. . ■. 
 
 Batavia 
 
 New York city | 
 
 New York city 
 
 No. 20 Madison street, Syracuse. . 
 
 Elm street, Albany 
 
 Cor. Batavia & Ellicott sts.,Buft'. 
 
 No. 185 Third street, Troy 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 New Yoi'k city 
 
 No. 120 Edward street, Buffalo. ..- 
 
 Western avenue, Albany 
 
 Rutger street, Utica 
 
 Binghamton 
 
 Syracuse 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Versailles, Erie county 
 
 Cor. Hanover & Bedf’d sts,, Troy. 
 
 Eighth street, Troy 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 150th st. and 11th ave., N. Y. city. 
 Genesee street, Utica 
 
 Co. Ave. A and 8th st., N. Y. city. 
 
 No. 41 7th ave , N. Y. city 
 
 Dec. 27, 1864 
 Oct. 6, 1855 
 Jan. 11, 1858 
 
 May 14, 1845 
 Jan. 7, 1868 
 
 April 29, 1863 
 
 May 5, 1868 
 
 .June 12, 1860 
 
 Jan. 29, 1849 
 Oct. 26, 1863 
 
 Jan. 12, 1852 
 
 — , 1849 
 
 April 21, 1862 
 Mar. 1.5, 1869 
 June 4, 1853 
 
 April 10, 1855 
 Jan. 5, 1864 
 April 10, 1835 
 
 April 22, 1862 
 April 19, 1830 
 
 Feb. 14, 1853 
 
 — , 1866 
 
40 
 
 Hospitals. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 Albany City Hoinceopathic Hospital 
 
 Albany Hos))ital 
 
 Asylum for Lying-in-Women, New York 
 
 Hrooklyn City Hospital 
 
 Jirooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital 
 
 Hrooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital 
 
 liiiftalo General Hospital 
 
 Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity 
 
 German Hospital, New York 
 
 Hahnemann Hospital, New York 
 
 Home for Incurable, West Farms 
 
 Homoeopathic Hospital 
 
 Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, New 
 
 York 
 
 House of Rest for Consumptives 
 
 Long Island College Hospital 
 
 Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New V ork. 
 
 Marshall Infirmary, Troy ... 
 
 Mount Sinai Hospital, New York 
 
 New York Eve and Ear Infirmary. . . 
 
 New York Infirmary for Women and Children 
 New York Medical College and Hospital for 
 
 Women 
 
 New Yo'-k Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, 
 
 New York 
 
 New York Ophthalmic Hospital 
 
 New York State Hospital for Diseases of the 
 
 Nervous System, New York 
 
 New York Hospital for the Treatment of 
 
 Cancer, New York 
 
 Presbyterian Hospital, New York 
 
 Roosevelt Hospital, New A^ork 
 
 Rochester City Hospital 
 
 St. Barnabas’ Hospital 
 
 St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, New York 
 
 St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and Home, Utica. .. 
 
 St. Francis’ Hospital, New York 
 
 St. John’s Hospital. . 
 
 St. John’s Riverside Hospital 
 
 St. Joseph’s Hospital 
 
 St. Luke’s Hospital, New York 
 
 St. Mary’s Female Hospital, Brooklyn 
 
 St. Mary’s Hospital, Rochester 
 
 St. Mary’s Free Ilosnital for Children, New 
 
 York * 
 
 St. Mary’s Lying-in Hospital, Buffalo 
 
 St. Peter’s Hospital 
 
 St. Peter’s Hospital, Brooklyn .. 
 
 St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York 
 
 S R. Smith Infirmary , 
 
 Thanksgiving Hospital, Cooperstown ! 
 
 Troy Hospital 
 
 Woman’s Hospital of the State of New York. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Date of 
 incorporation. 
 
 Albany 
 
 Cor. flow’d & Eagle sts., Albany. 
 No. 8.5 Marion street, N. Y. city. 
 
 Raymond street, Brooklyn 
 
 No. 190 Washington st., Br’klyn. 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 No. 100 High street, Buffalo 
 
 Main street, Buffalo 
 
 Cor. 4th av. & 77th st., N.Y. city. 
 
 New York city 
 
 WestF’ms, Westc’ster co., N.Y.. 
 Buftalo 
 
 4*2d street. New York city 
 
 Tremont, Westchester county . . . 
 
 Henry street, Brooklyn 
 
 No. 238 East 34th st., N. Y. city. 
 
 T roy 
 
 Lexingt’n av. bet. fititli & 07th sts. 
 2d avenue cor. 13th st. , N.Y. city. 
 No. 5 Lex. Place, N. Y. city 
 
 No. 187 2d avenue, N. Y. city . . . 
 
 No. 46 East 12th st., N. Y. city.. 
 No. 387 Fourth avenue 
 
 New York city 
 
 New York city 
 
 Mad. av. and 70th st., N. Y. city. 
 58th and 59th sts. and 9th and 10th 
 
 avenues. New York city 
 
 Bufialo street 
 
 Poughkeepsie 
 
 No. 225 West 31st st., N. Y. city. 
 No. 120 Columbia street, Utica. . 
 
 No. 605 5th street, N. Y. city 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Yonkers 
 
 Syracuse 
 
 5th av. cor. 54th st., N. Y. city.. 
 No. 153 Clinton street, Brooklyn. 
 West avenue, Rochester 
 
 No. 407 West 34th st.. N. Y. city. 
 No. 126 Edward street, Buffalo.. 
 
 Broadway, Albany 
 
 Cor. Hicks & Cong. sts.. Br’klyn. 
 No. 195 West 11th st., N. Y. city. 
 
 Edgewater, Staten Island 
 
 Elm street, Cooperstown 
 
 Eighth street, Troy 
 
 Cor. 50th st. & 4th av., N.Y. city. 
 
 
 
 
 
 1869 
 
 — 
 
 — ’ 
 
 1822 
 
 — 
 
 
 1845 
 
 May 
 
 4^ 
 
 1868 
 
 Nov. 
 
 21, 
 
 18.55 
 
 Jan. 
 
 24, 
 
 1849 
 
 April 
 
 13, 
 
 1861 
 
 April 
 
 
 1866 
 
 Sept. 
 
 24, 
 
 1869 
 
 — 
 
 — , 
 
 1858 
 
 May 
 
 5, 
 
 1869 
 
 J u n e 
 
 20, 
 
 1851 
 
 Jan. 
 
 
 1852 
 
 Mar. 
 
 29, 
 
 1822 
 
 Dec. 
 
 13, 
 
 1853 
 
 April 
 
 14, 
 
 1863 
 
 May 
 
 I, 
 
 1869 
 
 April 
 
 12, 
 
 1852 
 
 Feb. 
 
 28, 
 
 1868 
 
 Feb. 
 
 2. 
 
 1864 
 
 May 
 
 
 1847 
 
 Dec. 
 
 12, 
 
 1866 
 
 Mar. 
 
 22, 
 
 1866 
 
 May 
 
 1, 
 
 1850 
 
 April 
 
 3, 
 
 1868 
 
 Sept. 
 
 21, 
 
 1857 
 
 
 
 
 
 1870 
 
 Oct. 
 
 25, 
 
 1852 
 
 Feb. 
 
 16, 
 
 1866 
 
 April 
 
 13, 
 
 1857 
 
 Sept. 
 
 12, 
 
 1868 
 
 Mar. 
 
 11, 
 
 1851 
 
 April 
 
 18, 
 
 1857 
 
 
41 
 
 Dispensaries. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 Albany Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. .. 
 
 Albany City Homoeopathic Dispenpary 
 
 Albany Hospital Dispensary 
 
 Atlantic Avenue Dispensary, Brooklyn 
 
 Bond Street Homoeopathic Dispensary and 
 
 Tompkins Square Branch, New York 
 
 Brooklyn Central Dispensary 
 
 Brooklyn City Dispensary 
 
 Brooklyn Eclectic Dispensary. . 
 
 Brooklyn Homoeopathic Dispensary 
 
 Brooklyn Orthopedic Dispensary, Brooklyn. 
 
 Buffalo City Dispensary 
 
 Buffalo Homoeopathic Dispensary 
 
 Central Dispensary, New York 
 
 Demilt Dispensary, New York 
 
 Dispensary of the Long Island College Hos- 
 pital 
 
 Dispensary of the New York Medical College 
 
 and Hospital for Women 
 
 Dispensary of the Troy Hospital 
 
 Eastern District Dispensary, Brooklyn. . . . 
 
 Eastern Dispensary, New York 
 
 Eclectic Medical Dispensary, New York 
 
 Free Medical and Surgical Dispensary Asso 
 
 elation 
 
 Gates Avenue Homoeopathic Dispensary, 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 German-American Dispensary, New Y'ork. . . 
 
 German Dispensary, New York 
 
 Harlem Dispensary 
 
 Hoffman Dispensary, New York 
 
 Homoeopathic Medical College Dispensary, 
 
 New York 
 
 Infirmary (Dispensary) of the New York 
 
 College of Dentisti’y 
 
 Manhattanville Dispensary 
 
 Metropolitan Homoeopathic Dispensary, New 
 
 Y ork . 
 
 Morrisania Homoeopathic Dispensary 
 
 New York Dispensary 
 
 New York Dispensary for Diseases of the 
 
 Skin, New York 
 
 New York Ear Dispensary, New York 
 
 New York Free Dispensary for Sick Children, 
 
 New York 
 
 New York Homoeopathic Dispensary 
 
 New York Infirmary Dispensary 
 
 Northern Dispensary, New York 
 
 Northeastern Dispensary, New York 
 
 Northeastern Homoeopathic Dispensary,New 
 
 York 
 
 Northwestern Dispensary, New York 
 
 Orthopoedic Dispensary, New York 
 
 St. Elizabeth’s Dispensary, Utica 
 
 St. Peter’s Hospital Dispensary, Albany 
 
 St. Peter’s Hospital Dispensary. Brooklyn.. 
 Western Dispensary for Women and Children 
 
 New York 
 
 Western Homoeopathic Dispensary, New 
 
 York 
 
 Yorkville Dispensary 
 
 Location. 
 
 In the Hospital building, Howard 
 street, Albany 
 
 Included with Albany City Horn 
 
 oeopathic Hospital 
 
 In the Hospital building, Ilowarc 
 
 street, Albany 
 
 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn . . 
 
 No. 511 Bond street, N. Y. city.. 
 Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn .... 
 No. 7 Tillary street, Brooklyn.. 
 No. 236 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn 
 No. 178 Atlantic st., Brooklyn. . 
 Included with Brooklyn Homce 
 
 opatliic Hospital 
 
 Buftalo 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 No. 934 8th avenue, N. Y. city.. 
 No. 401 Second av., N. Y.-city. 
 Cor. Henry and Pacific streets 
 Brooklyn 
 
 No. 239 20th street, N. Y. city. . 
 
 Troy 
 
 Brooklyn, E. D 
 
 No. 57 Essex street, N. Y. city. 
 No. 223 26th street, N. Y. city. . 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 Junction of Gates and Fulton 
 
 avenues, Brooklyn 
 
 New York city 
 
 Included with German Hospital 
 4th avenue, between 124th and 
 125th streets, N. Y. city. . , 
 New York city.. 
 
 No. 115 East 20th st., N. Y. city, 
 
 New Y'ork city 
 
 Manhattanville, N. Y. city. 
 
 No. 54 Bleecker st., N. Y. city. 
 
 Morrisania 
 
 No. 137 Center st., N. Y. city. . . 
 
 New York city 
 
 36th st. cor. 9th av., N. Y. city. 
 
 No. 406 East 15th st., N. Y". city. 
 No. 109 West 34th st., N. Y. city. 
 
 2d avenue. New Y'ork city 
 
 Corner Waverly place ana Chris- 
 topher street. N. Y. city 
 
 No. 222 East 59th st., N. Y. city.. 
 
 No. 307 East 55th st., N. Y. city. . 
 Cor. 36th st. & 9th av., N. Y. city. 
 No. 126 East .59th st., N. Y. citv. 
 Included with St. Elizabetl/’s 
 
 Hospital 
 
 Included with St. Peter’s Hosp., 
 Included with St. Peter’s Hosp., 
 
 No. 334 9th avenue, N. Y". city.. . 
 
 No. 433 West 37th st., N. Y. city. 
 3d avenue between 83d and 84th 
 street. New York city 
 
 Date of 
 incorporation. 
 
 — 
 
 — , 1867 
 
 — 
 
 — , 1868 
 
 Feb. 
 
 25, 1862 
 
 Mar. 
 
 14, 1850 
 
 Dec. 
 
 24, 1852 ! 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 — , 1859 
 15, 1867 
 — , 1868 
 1851 
 
 April 
 
 Feb. 
 
 25, 1832 
 — , 1869 
 
 Mar. 
 
 9, 1867 
 
 Feb. 
 
 24, 1869 
 
 Dec. 
 
 — , 1866 
 
 May 
 
 -, 1862 
 
 April 
 
 8, 1795 
 
 April 
 
 — , 1871 
 
 April 
 
 June 
 
 2, 1871 
 — , 1860 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 28, 1828 
 
 18, 1862 
 
 Nov. 
 
 July 
 
 20, 1868 
 
 7, 1852 
 — , 1868 
 
 April 20, 1869 
 
 Mar. 
 
 — , 1867 
 
42 
 
 Private Insane Asylums. 
 
 ASYLUMS. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Kesident Physician. 
 
 Accommodation 
 for patients. 
 
 Bloomingdale Asylum 
 
 New York 
 
 Dr. D. T. Brown 
 
 200 
 
 Bi'igham Hall 
 
 •Canandaigua 
 
 Dr. George Cook 
 
 75 
 
 Home for Insane and Ner- 
 
 
 vous Invalids. 
 
 Pleasantville, Westches- 
 ter county 
 
 Dr. Geo. C. S. Choate 
 
 10 
 
 Home for Nervous Invalids. 
 
 Fishkill-on-the-IIudson. 
 
 Dr. C. W. Kitridge.. 
 
 20 
 
 Marshall Infirmary 
 
 Troy 
 
 Dr. Jos. D. Lomax. . 
 
 100 
 
 Providence Lunatic Asylum. 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 Dr. William Ring, at- 
 
 Sanford Hall 
 
 Flushing, Queens Co. . . 
 
 tending physician. 
 Dr. J. W. Barstow. . 
 
 200 
 
 30 
 
 Note.— The information in possession of the Board in reference to the objects and organiza- 
 tion of some of the corporate institutions subject to their visitation is somewhat imperfect. 
 Advices as to this is earnestly requested from the officials of all Institutions referred to. It is 
 hoped, therefore, that a subsequent edition of this Manual may be more complete in its objects. 
 

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