THE STATE CHARITIES LAW.

We submit for the consideration of the Legislature the accompanying chapter of the revision, to be known as the "State Charities Law," and to constitute chapter twenty-six of the general laws. This chapter embraces all the existing law relating to the organization, powers and duties of the State Board of Charities, the finances of State charitable institutions, and the acts creating such institutions, regulating the management and prescribing the treatment and control of the inmates thereof.

By chapter thirteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, the Comptroller is given the same power to revise and approve the estimates for expenditures of State charitable institutions as is possessed by the State Commission in Lunacy over expenditures made by State hospitals for the care of the insane, under the provisions of chapter two hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and chapter three hundred and fifty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four. In article three of this chapter, we have provided a method of approving and revising such estimates following that laid down in chapter two hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

In section two a State charitable institution is defined as an institution of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character, supported, in whole or in part, by the State, except institutions for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, and the blind and such institutions, which, by section eleven, article eight of the constitution, are made subject to the visitation and inspection of the Commission in Lunacy, or of the prison commission, whether