managed or controlled by the State or by private corporations, societies or associations." This chapter does not therefore, apply to the State hospitals for the insane, which are under the supervision of the Commission in Lunacy, nor the State reformatory at Elmira, which, by the constitution, is expressly placed under the supervision of the prison commission, and made a part of the State prison system. The State Industrial School at Rochester, the House of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents at Randall's Island, and the Houses of Refuge for Women at Hudson, Albion and Bedford, are institutions of a correctional and reformatory character, and by the constitution (art. VIII, § 11,) are subject to the inspection and visitation of the State Board of Charities. It was not intended to make these institutions a part of the State prison system; they are, therefore, still to be regarded as State charitable institutions, and the acts relating thereto are included in this chapter. The Reformatory for Women at Bedford is not yet completed, and there are no inmates therein. The acts creating the House of Refuge at Hudson and Albion and the Reformatory for Women at Bedford (L. 1891, ch. 187, as amended by L. 1892, ch. 784, L. 1890, ch. 238, and L. 1892, ch. 637,) are similar. By laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, chapter six hundred and thirty-seven it is provided that women from sixteen to thirty years of age may be committed to the Bedford Reformatory for a misdemeanor or felony, other than murder, manslaughter, burglary or arson. A woman can not be committed to either of the other institutions for a felony. It is proposed that no women shall be committed to either of such institutions for a felony, that all commitments thereto be made for certain specified offenses and also for all misdemeanors. There are few changes made in the law by this revision. It has not been deemed expedient to alter the present methods of managing these institutions. The few changes made are for the sake of clearness of expression. The object sought is the inclusion in a single chapter of our general laws of all the existing statutes relating to the supervision and control of affairs of insti tutions created for the care, support and improvement of certain classes of dependents which the State, in its wisdom, has assumed. This chapter, and the Insanity Law, previously reported to this Legislature, contain all the statutes relating to the support and management of charitable institutions created by the State for the custody, treatment, education and reformation of the dependent persons described therein. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES G. LINCOLN, Commissioners of Statutory Revision. THE STATE CHARITIES LAW. AN ACT relating to state charities, constituting chapter twenty six of the general laws. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: CHAPTER XXVI OF THE GENERAL LAWS. State Charities Law. Article I. State board of charities. (§§ 1-18.) II. State charities aid association. (§§ 30-32.) III. Regulations of finances of state charitable institu tions, reports to and accounts against municipalities. (§§ 40-47.) IV. Syracuse state institution for feeble-minded children. (§§ 60-70.) V. State custodial asylum for feeble-minded women. (§§ 80-83.) VI. Rome state custodial asylum. (§§ 90-94.) VII. The Craig colony for epileptics. (§§ 100-114.) VIII. Institutions for juvenile delinquents. (§§ 120-130.) (§§ 140-153.) X. Thomas asylum for orphan and destitute Indian children. (§§ 160-165.) XI. Laws repealed; when to take effect. (§§ 170-171.) ARTICLE I. State Board of Charities. Section 1. Short title. 2. Definitions. 3. State board of charities. 4. Officers of the board. Section 5. Compensation and expenses of commissioners. 6. Meetings and effect of nonattendance. 7. Office room and supplies. 8. Official seal, certificates and subpoenas. 9. General powers and duties of board. 10. Visitations, inspection and supervision of institu tions. 11. Powers and duties of boards on visits and inspections. 12. Investigations of institutions. 13. Orders of board directed to institutions. 14. Correction of evils in administration of institutions. 15. Duties of the attorney-general and district attorney. 16. State, nonresident and alien poor. 17. Reports of state board of charities. 18. Institutions for the deaf and dumb and the blind. Section 1. Short title.- This chapter shall be known as the state charities law. § 2. Definitions. The term state charitable institutions, when used in this chapter, shall include all institutions 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 the prison commission, whether managed or controlled by the state or by private corporations, societies or associations. [New.] § 3. State board of charities. There shall continue to be a state board of charities, composed of eleven members, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, one of whom shall be appointed from, and reside in each judicial district of the state, one additional member from the county of Kings, and two additional members from the |