ferred, with such information as the superintendent of state prisons may require, shall be forwarded to the office of such superintendent. § 9. Transfer of prisoners in state prisons, reformatories and penitentiaries to Dannemora hospital.-Whenever the physician of either of the state prisons, reformatories or penitentiaries shall certify to the warden or superintendent thereof, that a male prisoner confined therein and sentenced thereto for a felony, is, in his opinion, insane, such warden or superintendent shall cause such prisoner to be transferred to the Dannemora hospital for insane convicts and delivered to the medical superintendent thereof. Such superintendent shall receive the prisoner into such hospital, and retain him there until legally discharged. The warden or superintendent, before transferring such insane prisoner, shall see that he is in a state of bodily cleanliness, and is provided with a new suit of clothing similar to that furnished to convicts on their discharge from prison. At the time of such transfer, there shall be transmitted to the medical superintendent of such hospital the original certificate of conviction and the certificate of insanity executed by the physician, which shall be filed in the office of such medical superintendent who shall file a notice of such transfer in the office of the superintendent of state prisons. § 10. Retention of insane convicts after the expiration of their terms. When the term of a convict confined in Dannemora hospital for insane convicts has expired, and, in the opinion of the medical superintendent, such convict continues insane, the medical superintendent shall apply to a judge of a court of record to cause an examination to be made of such person, by two legally qualified examiners in lunacy, other than a physician connected with such hospital, qualified to act as medical examiners in lunacy. Such examiners shall be designated by the judge to whom the application is made. Such examiners, if satisfied, after a personal examination, that such convict is insane, shall make a certificate to such effect in the form and manner prescribed by the insanity law for the commitment of insane persons to state hospitals. Such superintendent shall apply to a judge of a court of record for an order authorizing him to retain such convict at the Dannemora hospital, accompanying such application with such certificate in lunacy. Such judge, if satisfied that such convict continues insane, shall issue such order of retention, and such superintendent shall thereupon retain the convict at Dannemora hospital until discharged as provided by law. The certificate in lunacy and order or retention shall be kept by the medical superintendent in his office, and a copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the state commission in lunacy. The costs necessarily incurred in determining the question of insanity, including the fees of the medical examiner, shall be a charge upon the amount appropriated for the support and maintenance of the Dannemora hospital, and be paid in the same manner as are other expenses of such hospital. § 11. Discharge of insane convicts after expiration of terms.-The medical superintendent of the Dannemora hospital may discharge and deliver any patient whose sentence has expired, and who is still insane, but who, in the opinion of the superintendent, is reasonably safe to be at large, to his relatives or friends who are able and willing to comfortably maintain him, without further public charge; and such patient may, in the discretion of the medical superintendent, be provided with the whole or a portion of such allowances as are hereinafter granted to recovered convicts. Whenever any convict, who, by reason of his insanity, shall have been retained beyond the date of the expiration of his sentence, shall recover, he may be discharged by the medical superintendent, and such convict shall be entitled to ten dollars in money, suitable clothing and a railroad ticket to the county of his conviction or to such other place as he may des ignate at no greater distance. Any convict in the Dannemora hospital, whose term of imprisonment has expired by commutation or otherwise, and who is not recovered may, upon an order of the commission in lunacy, be transferred to any institution for the insane. 12. Convicts on recovery to be transferred to prison.-Whenever any convict, who shall have been confined in such hospital as an insane person, shall have recovered before the expiration of his sentence, and the medical superintendent thereof shall so certify in writing to the warden or superintendent of the institution, from which such convict was received, or to which the superintendent of state prisons may direct that he be transferred, such convict shall forthwith be transferred to the institution from which he came, by the medical superintendent of the hospital, or, if received from one of the state prisons, to such state prison as the superintendent of state prisons may direct; and the warden or superintendent of such institution shall receive such convict into such institution, and shall, in all respects, treat him as when originally sentenced to imprisonment. § 13. Certificate of conviction to be delivered to medical superintendent and copy filed.-Whenever a convict is transferred to the Dannemora hospital, the warden or superintendent in charge of the prison, penitentiary, or reformatory from which such convict is transferred, shall cause a copy of the original certifi cate of conviction of such convict to be filed in the office of such warden or superintendent, and shall deliver the original certificate to the medical superintendent of such hospital; and whenever any such convict shall be transferred to any penal institution from such hospital, as herein before provided, the medical superintendent shall deliver to the warden, or superintendent in charge of such institution, such original certificate, which shall be filed in the clerk's office of the same. §14. Communications with patients.-No person not authorized by law or by written permission from the superintendent of state prisons shall visit the Dannemora hospital, or communicate with any patient therein, without the consent of the medical superintendent; nor without such consent shall any person bring into or convey out of the Dannemora hospital any letter or writing to or from any patient; nor shall any letter or writing be delivered to a patient, or if written by a patient, be sent from the Dannemora hospital until the same shall have been examined and read by the medical superintendent or some other offi cer of the hospital duly authorized by the medical superintendent. But communications addressed by such patient to the county judge or district attorney of the county from which he was sentenced, shall be forwarded, after examination by such medical superintendent, to their destination. § 15. This act shall take effect immediately. 68 Appropriation. How ex pended. Chap. 521. AN ACT to provide for the extension of the forest preserve in the counties of Delaware, Greene, Sullivan and Ulster and making an appropriation therefor. Became a law May 4, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The sum of fifty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury belonging to the general fund not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of acquiring land to extend the forest preserve in the Catskills, in the counties of Delaware, Green, Sullivan and Ulster. Such moneys shall be expended under the direction of the forest preserve board and paid by the treasurer on the certificate of such board and the warrant of the comptroller; and all lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall be acquired by purchase and not otherwise. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Discharge of assess Chap. 522. AN ACT in relation to an assessment for the grading, construction and improvement of Surf avenue in the city of New York, late town of Gravesend, Kings county. Passed without the acceptance of the city. Became a law May 5, 1899, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The collector of assessments and arrears of the City ment upon of New York upon the receipt of one-third part of the sum origreceipt of portion. nally assessed by the assessment confirmed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the grading, construction and improvement of Surf avenue from the westerly line of the land of the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad Company to the end of said avenue at Coney Island Point, and from the easterly line of the land of the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad Company to the end of said avenue at the west line of West Fifth Certifica payment. tion of as street, upon any lot or parcel, shall discharge all assessments and installments of assessments for the said improvement on such lot or parcel in his office, and he shall forthwith certify all tion of the facts relating to such payment to the receiver of taxes or any other officer or department of the city, having a record of the original assessment or of any installment of tax or assessment levied on account of said improvement, and such collector and Cancellaother officers shall thereupon forthwith cancel any and all records sessment. of any assessment or installment of assessment for the said improvement against the property in question in their respective offices. No further proceedings shall ever be had to levy or collect any sum on account of the expense of such improvement against such property by installment or otherwise, by said city or any officer thereof or any public authority. The payment Payment hereinbefore provided for may be made within ninety days after be made. the passage of this act with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the day of its passage. when may by persons not avail selves of § 2. Any person interested who shall not avail himself of the Payments privilege afforded by the foregoing section, shall have no right ing themto make payments except on the following terms: He shall pay act. one per centum interest for each calendar month upon the sum directed to be paid by this act from the time of the passage thereof, and all rights to make such payments are extended only to and shall cease at the end of the present calendar year with three days added thereto, after which time the installments of assessment shall be collected as now otherwise provided by law and the same shall be in all things confirmed. with col § 3. Any person desiring to make payments as herein provided Deposit for,, if he be unable to obtain a bill from the collector for the lector. same, may deposit with said collector a sum of money sufficient to comply with this act, accompanying the same with a statement of the property paid upon containing a diagram thereof and a memorandum of the block and lot number on the ward assessment map affected. The collector shall thereupon deliver to the person making the deposit a receipt by him for such deposit. If the amount deposited proves to be sufficient, he shall Receipt for apply the same to the payment and discharge of the assessment as hereinbefore provided for, and shall, as soon as practicable, and within fourteen days, deliver on demand and return of the deposit receipt, a proper receipt for the payment of the assessment, with any excess received. Should the deposit prove insufficient, he shall, within the same time, on return of the deposit payment. Return of money deposited. |