court, and an account under the oath of the keeper, of the materials and implements furnished.

Taken from 1 R. S., 3d ed. 821, sec. 11, 12.

§ 997. The keeper must sell the produce of the labor of the offender, and must account for the cost of the materials or implements purchased, and for one half of the surplus, to the board of supervisors, and pay it into the county treasury, and pay the other half of the surplus to the person by whom it was earned, on his discharge from imprisonment. He must also account to the court, when required, for the materials or implements purchased, and for the disposition of the proceeds of the labor of the offender.

Taken from 1 R. S., 3d ed., 821, sec. 13.

TITLE IX.

OF PROCEEDINGS RESPECTING THE SUPPORT OF POOR PERSONS.

SECTION 998. Whe may be compelled to support poor relatives.

999. Order to compel a person to support a poor relative, by whom and

how applied for, to court of sessions.

1000. Court to hear the case, and make order of support.

1001. Support, when to be apportioned among different relatives.

1002. Order, to prescribe time during which support is to continue, or may be indefinite. When and how order may be varied.

1003. Costs, by whom to be paid, and how enforced.

1004. Action on the order, on failure to comply therewith.

2005. Parents leaving their children chargeable to the public, how proceeded against.

1006. Seizure of their property. Transfer thereof, when void.

1007. Warrant and seizure, when confirmed or discharged. Direction of

the court thereon.

1008. Warrant, in what cases to be discharged.

1009. Sale of the property seized, and application of its proceeds.

1010. Powers of superintendents of poor.

998. The father, mother and children, of suffi cient ability, of a poor person who is insane, blind, old, lame, impotent or decrepid, so as to enable by work to maintain himself, must at their own charge, relieve and maintain him in a manner to be approved by the overseers of the town where he is, or in the city of NewYork, by the governors of the alms-house.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S. 3d ed., 782, sec. 1.

§ 999. If a relative of a poor person fail to relieve and maintain him, as provided in the last section, the overreers of the poor of the town where he is, or in the city of New-York, the governors of the alms-house may apply to the court of sessions of the county where the relative dwells, for an order to compel such relief, upon at

least ten days written notice, served personally, or by leaving it at the last place of residence of the person to whom it is directed, in case of his absence, with a person of suitable age and discretion.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S. 3d ed., 782, sec. 2.

§ 1000. At the time appointed in the notice, the court must proceed summarily to hear the allegations and proofs of the parties, and must order such of the relatives of the poor person, mentioned in section 998, as were served with the notice and are of sufficient ability, to relieve and maintain him, specifying in the order the sum to be paid weekly for his support, and requiring it to be paid by the father, or if there be none, or if he be not of sufficient ability, then by the children, or if there be none, or if they be not of sufficient ability, then by the mother.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S. 3d ed., 782, sec. 3.

§ 1001. If it appear that any such relative is unable wholly to maintain the poor person, but is able to contribute towards his support, the court may direct two or more relatives, of different degrees, to maintain him, prescribing the proportion which each must contribute for that purpose; and if it appear that the relatives are not of sufficient ability wholly to maintain him, but are able to contribute something, the court must direct the sum, in proportion to their ability, which they shall pay weekly for that purpose.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S., 3d ed., 782, sec. 4.

1002. The order may specify the time during which the relatives must maintain the poor person, or during which any of the sums directed by the court are to be paid, or it may be indefinite, or until the further order of the court. The court may from time to time, vary the order, as circumstances may require, on the application either of any relative affected by it, or of an officer on whose application the order was made, upon ten days written notice.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S., 3d ed., 783, sec. 5.

§ 1003. The costs and expenses of the application must be ascertained by the court, and paid by the relatives against whom the order is made; and the payment thereof, and obedience to the order of maintenance, and to any order for the payment of money, may be enforced by attachment.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S., 3d ed., 783, sec. 6.

§ 1004. If a relative, required by an order of the court, to relieve or maintain a poor person, neglect to do so in the manner approved by the officers mentioned in section 998, and neglect to pay to them weekly the sum prescribed by the court, the officers may maintain an action against the relative, and recover therein the sum prescribed by the court, for every week the order has been disobeyed, to the time of the recovery, with costs, for the use of the poor. In the city of NewYork, the action must be in the name of the corporation of that city.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S., 3d ed., 783, sec. 7.

§ 1005. When the father, or the mother being a widow or living separate from her husband, absconds from their children, or a husband from his wife, leaving any of them chargeable or likely to become chargeable upon the public, the officers mentioned in section 998, may apply to any two justices of the peace or police justices in the county in which any real or personal property of the father, mother or husband is situated, for a warrant to seize the same. Upon due proof of the facts, the magistrates must issue their warrant, authorising the officers so applying to take and seize the property of the person so absconding.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S., Bd ed., 783, sec. 8.

§ 1006. The officers so applying may seize and take the property, wherever it may be found in the same county; and are vested with all the right and title thereto, which the person abscon ling then had. The sale or transfer of any personal property, left in the county from which he absconded, made after the issuing of the warrant, whether in payment of an antecedent debt or for a new consideration, is absolutely void. The officers must immediately make an inventory of the property seized by them, and return it, together with their proceedings, to the next court of sessions of the county where they reside, there to be filed.

Substantially the same as 1 R. S., 3d ed., 783, sec. 9.