OFFICE OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES,

THE CAPITOL, ALBANY, January 16, 1899.

To the Hon. TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF,

Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate:

SIR. By direction of the Board, I have the honor herewith to transmit to the Legislature the thirty-second annual report of the State Board of Charities.

Yours very respectfully,

WILLIAM R. STEWART,

President.

MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR, BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND Consent of tHE SENATE,

Board's litigation with the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Number and classification of beneficiaries in institutions subject to the supervis on of

the Board......

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Accounts of charitable institutions, societies and associations..

Audit of accounts...

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Annual reports which the Board requires from charitab'e institutions, societies and

associations.....

Classified expenditures of the State charitable institutions subject to the super-

vision of the Board.....

State Industrial School, Rochester.......

House of Refuge for Women, Hudson..

Western House of Refuge for Women, Albion...

New York State Reformatory for Women, Bedford....

*Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York.

Syracuse State Institution for Feebl M nded Children......

State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women, Newark..

Rome State Custodial Asylum...

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New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Bath...

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New York State Women's Relief Corps Home, Oxford.

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Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, Iroquois....

New York State School for the Blind, Batavia..

Should unincorporated charitable societies be permitted to exist..

Plans of buildings approved..

State alien and Indian poor

State poor. ... ... ... ... ... ... ·

Alien poor...

Indian poor

Financial benefits resulting from the removal of State and alien poor..

Appropriation for State, alien and Indian poor

Department of inspection

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Specific work of the department........

Bureau of charitable institutions in the Comptroller's office

Convention of the County Superintendents of the Poor of the State of New York...

Resolutions adopted by the convention....

State Charities Aid Association

Conference of Roman Catholic Charities ....

Twenty-fifth National Conference of Charities and Correction..

Training class in philanthropic work conducted by the Charity Organization Society

of New York City.....

Proposed New York State Conference of Charities and Correction...

Appended papers....

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APPENDED PAPERS.

Address of William Rhinelander Stewart, President of the New York State Board of

Charities and President of the Twenty-fifth National Conference of Charities and

Correction, on "The Duty of the State to the Erring and the Dependent"...

Memorial to Dr. Charles S. Hoyt, deceased, formerly Secretary and later Superinten:

dent of State and Alien Poor in the service of the State Board of Charities, by Miss

Julia S. Hoag, Clerk to the Board........

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Brief of Hon. Theodore E. Hancock, Attorney-General of the State of New York, in

the case of "The People of the State of New York, ex rel. State Board of Charities

against the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children".

Decision and order of mandamus of Mr. Justice Giegerich of the New York Supreme

Court, at Special Term, October, 1898, in the case of "The People of the State of

New York, ex rel. The State Board of Charities against the New York Society for the

Prevention of Cruelty to Children"

Brief in opposition to certain provisions of Senate bill No. 108 and Assembly bill

No. 234, entitled “An act in Relation to Education, constituting chapter twenty-two

of the General Laws," which proposed act was prepared by and introduced at the

instance of the Commissioners of Statutory Revision.

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Decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of the New York Institution for the

Blind.......

Provisions of chapter 744, of the Laws of 1867, with relation to the New York

State School for the Blind..

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Provisions of chapter 556, of the Laws of 1894, relating to institutions for the deaf

and the blind..

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Classes of pupils now sent to schools for the deaf.

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Proposed changes in the laws; their purpose and effect........

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The Board's objections to the manner in which the measure was prepared..

Objections to the form of the measure..............