$ 7. The commissioners appointed in pursuance of this act shall be entitled each to five dollars a day for every day actually engaged. $8. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 725. AN ACT to increase the compensation authorized by the act entitled "An act to provide for the care and education of indigent deaf mutes under the age of twelve years," passed April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. PASSED April 24, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The expenses for the board, tuition and clothing of the children under the age of twelve years, placed in the New York institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, pursuant to the provisions of the third and fourth sections of chapter three hundred and twenty-five, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall, until otherwise directed by law, be estimated at the rate of two hundred and thirty dollars per capita, instead of the amount therein provided. $2. This act shall take effect on the first of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.. Ante, vol. 6, p. 105. CHAP. 732. AN ACT to prevent obstruction of Indian river, between certain points in the counties of Jefferson and St. Law rence. PASSED April 24, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any person who shall place any log, tree, wood, stone, brush or other obstruction in or upon the Indian river, between the high falls at Theresa, in Jefferson county, and the falls at the village of Rossie, in the county of St. Lawrence; and any person who shall, by felling any tree or trees in or upon the said river within the limits aforesaid, which shall obstruct, or be likely to obstruct, the natural and ordinary flow of the water of said river, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each offense, which may be recovered, with costs of suit, by and in the name of the commissioners appointed by the first section of chapter two hundred and ninety-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, or by their successors in office, to be by them expended in removing obstructions from said river and improving the channel thereof within the said limits, provided that no person shall be deemed liable to the penalty aforesaid for using the said river within the said limits for the purposes of floating saw logs, lumber, timber or merchandise, or for the ordinary purposes of navigation. CHAP. 733. AN ACT authorizing the inspectors of State prisons to contract and purchase for the State, timbered land for the uses of the Clinton prison. PASSED April 24, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. John Hammond, one of the inspectors of state prisons, is hereby authorized to contract for and purchase for the state ten thousand acres, or thereabouts, of timbered lands, located near Clinton prison, for the uses of said prison, which contract shall be subject to the approval and ratification of the governor and comptroller of the state, and not to be binding upon the state until so approved and ratified; said purchase to be made within one year from the passage of this act. $2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 739. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to re-organize the State Asylum for Idiots, and to provide for the government and management thereof," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. PASSED April 24, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The seventeenth section of the act entitled "An act to reorganize the State asylum for idiots, and to provide for the government and management thereof," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 17. The supervisors of any county in the state, from which state pupils may be selected and received into the asylum, are hereby authorized and required, while such 20 Persons entitled to of the pupils remain at the asylum, to raise the sum of thirty dollars annually for the purpose of furnishing suitable clothing for each pupil from said county; and on or before the first day of April in each year, pay over the same to the treasurer of the asylum. The superintendent shall, on the reception of any pupil, give notice thereof to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county from which such pupil shall have been sent. Ante, vol. 4, p. 37. CHAP. 744. AN ACT to define the objects of the New York State ment. PASSED April 24, 1867. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All blind persons of suitable age and capacity privileges for instruction, who are legal residents of the state, shall be institution. entitled to the privileges of the New York State institution for the blind, without charge, and for such a period of time in each individual case as may be deemed expedient by the board of trustees of said institution; provided, that whenever more persons apply for admission at one time than can be properly accommodated in the institution, the trustees shall so apportion the number received, that each county may be represented in the ratio of its blind population to the total blind population of the state; and provided further, that the children of citizens who died in the United States service, or from wounds received therein during the late rebellion, shall take precedence over all others. Application for admission. Object of the S2. Blind persons from without the state may be received into the institution upon the payment of an adequate sum, fixed by the trustees, for their boarding and instruction; provided that such applicant shall in no case exclude those from the state of New York. S3. Applications for admission into the institution shall be made to the board of trustees, in such manner as they may direct; but the board shall require each application to be accompanied by a certificate from the county judge of the county where the applicant resides, setting forth that the applicant is a legal resident of the town, county and state claimed as his or her residence. S4. The primary object of the institution shall be, to furinstitution. nish to the blind children of the state the best known facilities for acquiring a thorough education, and train them in some useful profession or manual art, by means of which they may be enabled to contribute to their own support after leav ing the institution; but it may likewise, through its industrial department, provide such of them with appropriate employment and boarding accommodations as find themselves unable, after completing their course of instruction and training, to procure these elsewhere for themselves. It shall, however, be in no sense an asylum for those who are helpless from age, infirmity, or otherwise, or a hospital for the treatment of blindness. of present trustees. $5. Upon the expiration of the term of office of the present Successors board of trustees, the governor shall, by and with the con- board of sent of the senate, appoint their successors, two of whom shall reside in the county wherein said institution is located, and a majority of whom shall reside within fifty miles of said institution, and at the first meeting of said board, after their appointment as aforesaid, they shall divide themselves by lot into three equal classes, who shall serve for two, four and six years, respectively, from the date of their appointments, and until their successors shall have been appointed, and every alternate year thereafter the governor shall, by and with the consent of the senate, appoint three trustees to fill the places of those whose term of service will have expired, in accordance with the provisions of this section. $6. In case of the declension of any member of said board of trustees to act under his appointment, or of the occurrence of any other casual vacancy in the board, the governor shall forthwith appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy, and the member so appointed shall serve out the time of his predecessor. tion, except $7. The trustees shall receive no compensation as such, Trustees to but they may allow themselves mileage, at the same rate as compensathat paid to members of the legislature, for any distance mileage. actually traveled in the service of the institution. Nor shall any trustee be pecuniarily interested in any contract for buildings pertaining to the institution, or in furnishing supplies therefor. board of 8. The board of trustees shall have charge of all the Powers of affairs of the institution, with power to make all necessary trustees. by-laws and regulations for their government and the proper management of the institution, as well as for the admission of pupils, and to do all else which may be found necessary for the advancement of its humane design. of seal $9. They shall elect from their own number a president, Adoption treasurer and secretary, together with such standing committees as they may deem necessary, and adopt a common seal for the institution. $10. The treasurer shall have the custody of all the funds Treasurer. of the institution, and pay out the same only upon properly anthenticated orders of the board or its executive committee. Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall give a bond with at least two sureties to be approved as hereinafter Superintendent. Provision for those admitted to institution. stated, to the people of the state of New York in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his trust, which bond shall be approved by the state treasurer of this state, in whose office the same shall be filed. S 11. The trustees shall have power to appoint a competent and experienced superintendent, who shall be the chief executive officer of the institution, together with an efficient corps of instructors and other subordinate officers; prescribe the duties and terms of service of the same; fix and pay their salaries, and, for just cause, remove any or all of them from office. They shall likewise employ the requisite number of servants and other assistants in the various departments of the institution, and pay the wages of the same. S 12. They shall purchase all furniture, apparatus and other supplies necessary to the equipment and carrying on of the institution in the most efficient manner. S 13. When any blind person shall, upon proper applicaof clothing tion, be admitted into the institution, it shall be the duty of his or her parents, guardians or other friends, to suitably provide such person with clothing at the time of entrance and during continuance therein, and likewise to defray his or her traveling expenses to and from the institution at the time of entrance and discharge, as well as at the beginning and close of each session of the school, and at any other time when it shall become.necessary to send such person home on account of sickness or other exigency. And whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the trustees to have such person permanently removed from the institution, in accordance with the by-laws and regulations thereof, the same shall be promptly removed upon their order, by his or her parents, guardians or other friends. Neglect to provide the same. Itemized accounts against S 14. If the friends of any pupil from within the state of New York shall fail, through neglect or inability, to provide the same with proper clothing or with funds to defray his or her necessary traveling expenses to and from the institution, or to remove him or her therefrom, as required in the preceding section, the trustees shall furnish such clothing, pay such traveling expenses, or remove such pupil to the care of the overseers of the poor of his or her township, and charge the cost of the same to the county to which the pupil belongs; provided that the annual amount of such expenditures on account of any one pupil shall not exceed the sum of sixty dollars. And in case of the death of any pupil at the institution, whose remains shall not be removed or funeral expenses borne by the friends thereof, the trustees shall defray the necessary burial expenses, and charge the same to his or her county as aforesaid. S 15. On the first day of October in each year, the trustees shall cause to be made out against the respective counties |