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troller, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars. The woman physician shall perform the same duties as to such prison as a physician of a state prison is required to perform in relation thereto.

[Under the present law, L 1893, chap. 306, § 7, the physician and chaplain, respectively, of Auburn prison are physician and chaplain of the prison for women.

We have provided that a woman physician be appointed as physician of such prison.

The reference to the duties of the clerk of Auburn prison and provision fixing his compensation are not contained in the present law.]

§ 256. Sentence of women convicts; transportation.-A woman of over sixteen years of age, convicted of felony in any court of this state, and sentenced to imprisonment, shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for women. The clerk of the court imposing such sentence shall immediately notify the warden of Auburn prison thereof, and such warden shall cause such convict to be transported to such prison for women, in the company of at least one other woman; the expenses of such transportation shall be paid from the prison funds in the same manner as other expenses of prison maintenance.

[L. 1893, chap. 306, § 9, without change.]

§ 257. Children of women convicts.—If a woman sentenced to such prison, at the time of her incarceration under such sentence, is the mother of a nursing child in her care, under one year of age, such child may accompany its mother and remain in prison until such time as, in the opinion of the physician, such child can be

properly removed therefrom and suitably provided for elsewhere. Such child may be committed to the care and custody of some relative or proper person willing to assume such care. If not so committed the warden may cause such child to be removed therefrom and placed in an asylum for children in this state. If the mother of the child had a settlement within the state at the time of her conviction, the cost of the support of such child in such asylum shall be a charge upon the county wherein she had such settlement; if such mother had no such settlement the support of such child shall be a charge upon the state in the same manner as a state poor child, committed to an asylum as provided in the poor law. If a child is born to such woman while in prison, such child may remain therein until removed as above provided.

If a woman when sentenced is the mother of and has under her exclusive care a child or children more than one year of age, who otherwise might be left without proper care and guardianship, the court sentencing such woman shall cause such child or children to be committed to an asylum provided by law for the reception and maintenance of destitute children, or to the care and custody of some relative or proper person willing to assume the care of such child or children.

[The first and last sentence of this section are a proposed re-enactment of L. 1893, chap. 306, § 11.

The remainder of the section is new.]

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ARTICLE XIII.

DANNEMORA HOSPITAL FOR INSANE CONVICTS.

Section 260. Establishment and purposes of the Dannemora

hospital.

261. Medical superintendent.

262. Medical superintendent as treasurer of the hospital.

263. Salaries of resident officers.

264. Powers and duties of medical superintendent and

assistants.

265. Monthly estimates.

266. Power of removal.

267. Transfer of insane convicts from Matteawan State

hospital to the Dannemora hospital.

268. Transfer of prisoners in state prisons, reformatories and penitentiaries to Dannemora hospital.

269. Retention of insane convicts after expiration of their

terms.

270. Discharge of insane convicts after expiration of

terms.

271. Convicts on recovery, to be transferred to prison.

272. Certificate of conviction to be delivered to medical

superintendent and copy filed.

273. Communications with patients.

[General note.-—In this article, we propose a system for the management and control of the Dannemora hospital for insane convicts, which is now in course of construction.

The buildings for this hospital were commenced in 1896, under an appropriation made by chapter nine hundred and forty-nine

of the laws of that year, and continued under an appropriation made by chapters three hundred and ninety-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and sixteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. The hospital when completed is to be supported by the state as a part of the state prison system. It is proposed that all state prison and reformatory convicts, and all penitentiary convicts sentenced for felonies, who are now confined at the Matteawan state hospital for insane criminals, and who have at least six months of their terms to serve, be transferred to the Dannemora hospital. It is proposed that Matteawan should be used exclusively for the confinement of criminals who are declared to be insane before their conviction and of persons confined in penitentiaries and jails under sentences for less than one year.

We have applied the system of management and control now used at Matteawan as contained in article four of the Insanity Law, to the Dannemora hospital without material change.]

§ 260. Establishment and purposes of the Dannemora hospital. The grounds and property located at Dannemora, in the county of Clinton and the buildings erected thereon, when completed, shall be designated as the Dannemora hospital for insane convicts. Such hospital, when ready for occupancy, shall be used for the purpose of confining and caring for such male prisoners as are declared insane while confined in a state prison or reformatory, or while serving a sentence of more than one year in a penitentiary.

[New.]

§ 261. Medical superintendent.-When the Dannemora hospital for insane convicts is ready for occupancy, the superintendent

of state prisons shall appoint a medical superintendent therefor, who shall be a well educated physician of at least five years' actual experience as a prison physician or in a hospital for the care and treatment of the insane. A vacancy in the office of such superintendent shall be filled in like manner.

The superintendent of state prisons shall make by-laws and rules and regulations for the government of the hospital and the management of its affairs.

[New.]

§ 262. Medical superintendent as treasurer of the hospital.The medical superintendent shall be the treasurer of the hospital, and before entering upon his duties, shall file with the state comp troller his undertaking to the people with sureties, to be approved by the superintendent of state prisons, to the effect that he will faithfully perform his trust as such treasurer. He shall have the custody of the moneys, securities and obligations belonging to the hospital, and shall open with some bank, in the vicinity of the hospital, to be selected with the approval of the comptroller, an account in his name as such medical superintendent, and immediately deposit in such bank all moneys received by him as such medical superintendent and treasurer, and shall draw therefrom only for the use of the hospital and in the manner provided by the by-laws and upon the order of the steward, speci⚫ fying the object of each payment. He shall keep a full and accurate account of the receipts and payments, as directed by the by-laws, and of such other matters as the superintendent of state prisons may prescribe, and balance all his accounts, annually, on the thirtieth day of September, and within ten days thereafter deliver to the superintendent of state prisons, a statement thereof

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