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SUPERINTENDENT. Charles B. Andrews .. Appointed June 1, 1883.
COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
By the provisions of chap. 223, Laws of 1862, three Commissioners 32
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STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
of Public Accounts were authorized to be appointed by the Gov- ernor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to hold office for three years. The compensation of the Commissioners was fixed by the act, at five dollars for each day actually employed in the discharge of their duties, and an allowance for mileage, the same as made to members of the Legislature. They were charged with the duty of making an annual inspection of the accounts of the State Treasury, during which it was required that they should examine the accounts and vouchers relating to all money's received and paid from the Treasury during the preceding year. The Commissioners also in- spected all accounts kept in the Canal Department; the accounts of the Inspectors of State Prisons, and wardens and agents employed thereat. And examined the books and papers of the Banking and Insurance Departments, to ascertain whether the same were kept in compliance with law. They were further required to ascertain whether the moneys collected from banks, insurance companies, gas-light com- panies and railroad companies had been paid into the Treasury as required by law, for the maintenance of the respective departments or officers having supervision of their affairs.
The Commissioners reported to the Governor during the month of January in each year, and such report was required to be trans- mitted by him to the Legislature. The Commission was abolished in 1872 (chap. 541) by a clause in the appropriation bill of that year.
COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
COMMISSIONERS.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE.
COMMISSIONERS.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE.
Isaac H. Fish ..
William J. Groo.
April 21, 1862 April 21, 1562 April 21, 1862
Ang. 1, 1565 Mch. 20, 1867 June 12, 1868
- Smith.
Elting.
Joseph Atwell.
Oct. 22, 1862
Mch. 23, 1870
Woodward.
Benjamin Nott ...
June 10, 1863
Mch: 23, 1 70
Hoskins.
Sammel Ames.
April 12, 1865 April 14, 1:65
Groo. Smith.
Mch. 21. 1871
Dayton.
Washington Smith. .. J. D'glas Woodward. George G. Hoskins. .. Robt. H. Shankland. Gilson A. Dayton .... Washington I. Smith
Ames.
Washington Smith
Fish. Atwell.
Ira II. Elting.
STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
The State Board of Charities was organized in 1867 (chap. 951), under the name of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Char- ities. It consisted of eight Commissioners, one in each judicial dis- trict, appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. By a clause in the appropriation bill of 1870 (chap. 281), the Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller and Attorney-General were constituted ex-officio members of the Board.
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STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.
The act of 1867 authorized the Commissioners, or any one of them, to visit and inspect, annually, or as much oftener as they might deem proper, all charitable and correctional institutions of the State, excepting prisons, which received State aid. It conferred upon them power to inquire and examine into the financial condition of the various institutions subject to their visitation, the management and care of their imnates, the condition of the buildings and grounds, the conduct of the officers and managers, and generally into all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management. They were also authorized and required to visit and inspect each of the county poor-houses and city alins-houses, at least once in every two years. Reports as to the condition of the various institutions subject to the visitation of the Board have been presented each year to the Legislature, accompanied by statistical and financial tables, and a large amount of valuable information has thus been given to the public. The Board has power, under an act passed in 1871 (chap. 713), to relieve counties from the obligation to send chronie pauper insane to the Willard Asyhun for the Insane.
By the act of May 21, 1873 (chap. 571), the name of the Board was changed to " The State Board of Charities," and three additional members were authorized to be appointed for the term of eight years, one from the county of Kings and two from the county of New York. By this act the power of visitation was extended to all charitable, elco- mosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions, excepting pris- ons, whether receiving State aid or maintained by municipalities, or otherwise; and to any incorporated or private asylumns, institu- tions, houses or retreats for the detention, treatment and care of the insane or persons of unsound mind. An act passed in 1873 (chap. 661), provides that "every poor person who is blind, lame, old, im- potent or decrepit, or in any other way disabled or enfeebled, so as to be unable by work to maintain himself, who shall apply for aid to any superintendent or overseer of the poor or other officer charged with the support and relief of indigent persons, and who shall not have resided sixty days in any county of this State within one year pre- ceding the time of such application, shall be deemed to be a State pamper ; and authorizes the State Board of Charities to make con- tracts for their maintenance. Contracts have been accordingly made with the city of Albany and the counties of Delaware, St. Lawrence, Erie, Broome, Jefferson, Onondaga, Kings, Oneida, Seneca and
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Monroe. Commissioners receive no salary, but are reimbursed for traveling and necessary expenses. They are allowed a secretary and necessary clerks. The seal of the office is the Arms of the State as described in chapter 190, Laws of 1852, surrounded by the inscrip- tion, "State of New York - The State Board of Charities."
COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITIES.
COMMISSIONERS.
DISTRICT.
APPOINTED.
IN WHOSE PLACE.
Charles M. Crandall
Elghth ...
June 17,1367
Edward W. Foster ..
Fourth ..
June
17.1567
Jolm Y. L. Prnyn .. ..
Third.
Inne 17, 1567
Harvey G. Eastman.
Second.
June 17, 1867
James K. Place.
First ..
June 17,167
Samuel F. Miller
Sixth ..
une
17,1-17
Theodore W. Dwight.
Fifth.
June
17,1-67
Martin B. Anderson ...
Seventh
June
17,1:67
Frederick II. James.
Eighth
Dec.
6,1867
Crandall, dec'd.
Nathan Bishop ....
First
Dec.
1,1868
Place, not qual.
Sanford Eastman.
Fighth
April
21,1869
James,
William N. Coit.
Fourth
Mar.
1,1571
Falled to qualify.
John T. Hudson ...
Righth.
.Jan.
21,1872
Failed to qualify.
James O. Putnam ..
Eighth .
Apri:
2, 1573
Failed to qualify. Putnam.
Howard Potter.
First
May
28,1873
Benjamin B. Sherman.
First
May
28, 1873
James A. DeGrauw
Second
May
28, 1573
Edward W. Foster.
Fourth
May
25,1873
Coit.
John C. Devereux
Fifth
Feb.
11,1874
Dwight.
Theodore Roosevelt ...
First.
April
1,1375
Bishop.
Henry Hognet ..
First
April
1,1875
Potter.
Charles II. Marshall ...
First
April
1,1575
Sherman.
Abial A. Low.
Second
April
1,1875
De Granw.
Josephine Shaw Lowell ..
First
April
20,1876
Marshall.
Edward C. Donnelly
First .
Jule
18,1877
Ilognet.
John HI. Van Antwerp.
Third.
April
10,1878
Provn.
Theodore B. Bronson .
First
Jan.
15, 1879
James Roosevelt.
Second
Feb. 12,1:79
Eastman.
Sarah M. Carpenter.
Second.
Jan.
21,1880
J. Roosevelt.
Oscar Craig.
Seventh ..
May
11,1550
Anderson.
Stephen Smith
First
June
17,1881
Bron-on.
Jolm J. Milhau
First
Frb.
8,1882
Within Rhinelander Stewart.
First
May
31,1882
Smith.
Robert MeCarthy.
Filth
Jan.
11, 1585
Devereux.
Peter Walrath.
Sixth
April
7,1836
Miller.
PRESENT BOARD.
Lient-Gov. Jones,*
John J. Mithan, William R. Stewart, Mrs. C. R. Lowell, Sarah M. Carpenter,
Ripley Ropes, John HI. Van Antwerp,
Edward W. Foster, Robert MeCarthy,
Peter Walrath, . Oscar Craig, Willtam P. Letchworth.
-
* Ex-officio.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.
PRESIDENTS.
ELECTED.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
ELECTED.
SECRETARIES.
APPOINTED.
J. V. L. Pruyn.
July 11, 1867
MMIch. 8,1877
Theo. W. Dwight .... W. P. Letchworth ... J. C. Deverenx J. H. Van Antwerp.
July 11, 1867 June 11, 1874 Mch. 14, 1878 April 11, 1585
Henry C. Lake .. Charles S. Hoyt. Ass. Secretary. Jas. O. Fanning.
...
July 11, 1867 June 5, 1:18
M. B. Anderson .... .J. V. L. Pryn ......
Sept. 6,1877
W. P. Letchworth
Mch. 14, 1878
June 11, 1874
Secretary Cook,*
Comptroller Chapin, *
Att. - Gen. O'Brien,"
Second.
May
2,1877
1.W.
William P. Letchworth ..
Eighth
April
16, 1573
Ripley Ropes ..
T Roosevelt.
Donnelly.
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STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
An act of the Legislature, passed May 18, 1880 (chap. 322), au- thorized the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint three State Commissioners of Health, of whom two shall be graduates of legally constituted medical colleges and of not less than seven years' practice of their profession. The said commissioners, together with the Attorney-General, the Superin- tendent of the State Survey and the Health Officer of the Port of New York, who shall be ex-officio members of the "State Board of Health," and three other persons to be designated and appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be a commissioner of health of the Board of Health of the city of New York, and the others shall be members or commissioners of health of regularly constituted and organized Boards of Health of cities of the State, shall constitute the " Board of Health of the State of New York." The act requires them to meet at least once in every three months and as much oftener as they shall deem necessary. The Board has cognizance of the interests of health and life among the people of the State, and is required to make inquiries in respect to the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and investigate the sources of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments and other conditions upon the public health, and collects information relative to death, diseases and health, and has general supervision of the State system of registra- tion of births, marriages and deaths, and of prevalent diseases. It is made the duty of all Health Officers and Boards of Health in the State to communicate to it copies of all their reports and publica- tions and such other sanitary information as may be useful. The clerical duties and safe-keeping of the burean of vital statistics, sup- ervised by the Board, is provided for by the Comptroller. The Board regulates the transfer of dead bodies beyond the limits of counties in which the deaths occur. An act passed April 29, 1855 (chap. 176), directed the State Board of Health to take cognizance of the interests of the public health, as it relates to the sale of food, drugs, spirituous, fermented and malt liquors, and the adulteration thereof. And gave to it the supervision of the appointment of public analysts and chemists. An additional act passed May 27, 1886 (chap. 467), prohibited the use of any substitute for hops, or pure extract of hops, in the manufacture of ale or beer, sold or of- fered for sale in this State, and charged the State Board of Health
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COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES.
with the duty of enforcing the provisions of the law. The Gov. ernor may require the Board to examine into nuisances, and may de- clare to be public nuisances matters and things certified to him by said Board to be such. The term of office of the Commissioners is three years. No member of the Board, save the Secretary, receives compensation, but the actual traveling and other expenses of the Board incurred while engaged in the performance of official duties may be paid from the appropriations made for its support. The Board are required, before the first Monday in December of each year, to make a report in writing to the Governor upon the vital statistics and sanitary condition and prospects of the State. The Seal of office is the Arms of the State as described in chapter 190, Laws of 1882, surrounded by the inscription "State of New York - The Board of Health." The Board was organized May 29, 1880, under the pro- visions of chapter 322 of the Laws of that year.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. [Those persons who have held by virtue of office are omitted from this list. ]
STATE COMMISSIONERS.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE.
COMMISSIONERS IN CITIES.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE.
Erastus Brooks.
May 20, 1820
Edw'd M. Moore, M.D Charles F. Chandler ..
May 20, 1880
J.Savage Delavan, MDI
May 20, 1520
May
20, 1280
Elisha llarris, M. D, 2
May 20. 1880
May
20,1880
George W. Cooke ..
April 7. 1884
Harvis. Delavan.
James G. Ilunt, M. D. Woolsey Johnson ..... :Alfred Mercer.
April 7,1884
Wi. E. Millbank, M.D
Jan. 2, 1886
April 7,1884
Chandler. Hunt.
COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES.
Chapter 285 of the Laws of 1868 established the Commission of Fisheries, for the purpose of ascertaining, by examination, whether the various rivers, lakes and streams of the State could be rendered more productive of fish, and what mneans were desirable to effect such object. The act named Horatio Seymour, Seth Green and Robert Roosevelt as Commissioners, to serve for two years. By an act passed in 1870 (chap. 567), the term of office of the Commissioners was extended three years and the Governor was authorized to fill va- cancies as they might occur. Chapter 74 of the Laws of 1873 contin- ued the existence of the commission indefinitely, and a law passed in 1874 authorized the appointment of an additional Commissioner by the Governor. The Superintendent of Public Works, by an act passed in 1880 (chap. 252), was directed to cause fish-ways to be constructed and maintained in all of the State dams across the Os- wego, Oneida and Seneca rivers, and a subsequent law, passed in
1 Died August 7, 1885.
2 Dled Jannary 31, 1883.
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GAME AND FISH PROTECTORS.
1551 (chap. 620), required that the work should be done in accordance with plans prescribed by the Commissioners of Fisheries. The duty of artificially propagating shad, white fish, trout and sahnon trout in the waters of the State is devolved upon the Commissioners, and an act passed May 21, 1884 (chap. 320), directed them to erect a fish- hatching establishment at some convenient point in the Adirondack forest, for the purpose of restocking the lakes and streams of that forest with trout and other fish natural to the locality, and stocking such other streams as to them may seem necessary. An additional act passed May 26, 1885 (chap. 85) set aside certain land and waters in the Adirondack forests to be held by the Commissioners of Fish- eries solely as reservoirs for breeding fish, and nurseries for young fish, and for experimental purposes in the business of fish culture, and prohibited any one from entering upon the same for the pur- pose of fishing without the consent of the Commissioners. Chapter 300, of the Laws of 1886, passed May 10, authorized the Commis- sioner of Fisheries, designated by them as Oyster Commissioner, to appoint a person to be known as the State Oyster Protector, who is charged with the duty of patroling, under the direction of the Oyster Commissioner, the oyster regions of the State, for the pur- pose of guarding the same, and enforeing the laws governing the deposit of injurious substances in waters used for oyster culture. By chapter 317 of the Laws of 1883, the Game and Fish Protectors of the State, authorized by chapter 591 of the Laws of 1880, are subject to the supervision and direction of the Commis- sioners of Fisheries. The Commissioners receive no salaries, but are reimbursed expenses incurred in the performance of official duties ; they are authorized to appoint a Superintendent and employ other necessary help and are required to report their proceedings to the Legislature annually.
COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES.
COMMISSIONERS.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE.
COMMISSIONERS.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE.
Horatio Seymour.
Seth Green I.
Robert B. Roosevelt .. George C. Cooper
April 22, 1868 April 22, 1868 April 22, 1868 May 18, 1869 Feb.
Eugene G. Blackford. William HI. Bowman.
May 23.1879 April 30, 1884
Smith.
Edward M. Smith 2. ... Richard U. Sherman ...
9, 1872 Jan. 2,1879
Green. Cooper. Seymour.
SUPERINTENDENT. Seth Green
May 15, 1869
GAME AND FISH PROTECTORS.
By an act passed June 26, 1880 (chap. 591), the Governor was au- thorized to appoint eight persons, to be designated as Game and Fish
I Resigned May 13, 1569. 2 Died.
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COMMISSIONER OF STATISTICS OF LABOR.
Protectors, the duty of whom it should be, to enforce the statutes for the preservation of moose, wild deer, birds and fish or any other game. A subsequent law, passed in 1883 (ch. 317), authorized the Governor in his discretion to increase the number of such appointments to six- teen, and provided that the Protectors should be subject to the su- pervision and direction of the Commission of Fisheries, to which Board they are required to make monthly reports in writing. The same act directs the District Attorneys of the several counties of the -State to commence and prosecute to termination, actions and proceedings in the name of the people against persons reported by any Protector to have violated the game and fish laws. Protectors are authorized to arrest without warrant, they hold office for three years and receive annual salaries of $500, with $250 additional for traveling expenses. Vacancies as they occur are filled by appoint- ment by the Governor.
GAME AND FISH PROTECTORS.
PROTECTORS.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE.
PROTECTORS.
APPOINTED.
WHOSE PLACE
John Liberty
July
1,1880
Francisco Wood.
July 20, 1833
William P. Dodge
July
1,1880
Jos. Il. Godwin, Jr ...
July 20, 1883
Collett. Brayton.
Daniel B. Norton.
July
1,1850
Stephen A. Roberts ...
July 20, 1883
John S. Collett
July
1,1880
William H. Lindley ..
July 20, 1883
S. V. R. Bravton
July
11,1880
Aaron M. Parish ..
July 20, 1883
Sylvester J. Palmer.
July
11,1880
Nathan C. Phelps.
July 20, 1883
John Jessup.
Ang. 2, 1880
Peter R. Leonard.
Ang. 21, 1883
George M. Schwartz. .
Ang.
2, 1880
John L. Brinckerhof
May 12, 1884
Seymour C. Armstrong
July 20, 18-3
Palmer.
Matthew Kennedy.
Ang.
1, 1853
Jessup.
William N. Steele .... John Sheridan.
Feb. 21, 1885
Parish.
Albert M. Griffin 1
July
20,1853
George W. Whitaker.
July
20, 1883
COMMISSIONER OF STATISTICS OF LABOR.
By an act passed May 4, 1883 (chap. 356), the Governor was au- thorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. some suitable person to be designated as Commissioner of Statistics of Labor, whose duty it should be to collect, assort, systematize and present in annual reports to the Legislature, within ten days after the convening thereof in each year, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the State, especially in relation to the com- mercial, industrial, social and sanitary condition of workingmen, and to the productive industries of the State. The Commissioner re- ceives an annual salary of $3,000, holds office three years, and is allowed necessary clerical assistants. An act passed April 24, 1886 (chap. 205), conferred upon the Commissioner power to send for
Frederick P. Drew ....
May 12, 1884
May 12, 1884
Norton. Dodge. Grithin.
Thomas Bradley ....
July 20, 15-3
1 Declined.
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persons and papers and examine witness under oath and granted him free access to mines, factories, workshops, warehouses, elevators, machine shops and all other manufacturing establishments, for the purpose of inspection ; a subsequent act of the same year (chap. 409) provided for the appointment of a factory inspector, who by the act is required to report annually on or before the 30th day of Novem- ber, to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
COMMISSIONER.
Charles F. Peck
........ .Appointed May 4, 1883.
FACTORY INSPECTOR.
An act of the Legislature, passed May 18, 1886 (chap. 409), au- thorized the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint an officer to be known as " Factory Inspector," also an assistant Factory Inspector whose terms of office shall be three years. The factory inspector and assistant are empowered to visit and inspect at all reasonable hours, and as often as practicable, the factories, workshops and other establishments in the State where the manufacture of goods is carried on, and he is required to report to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State, on or before November 30 of each year. The compensation of the Inspector is fixed at $2,000 per annum, and that of the assistant at $1,500. It is further made the duty of the Inspector to enforce the provisions of the act which created his office, and to prosecute violations of the same. The act prohibited any minor under the age of eighteen years or any woman under the age of twenty-one years from being employed at labor in any manufacturing establishment in the State, for a longer period than sixty hours in any one week, unless for the purpose of making necessary repairs, and provided that no child under thirteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, and that any child under sixteen years of age when so employed shall be recorded by name in a book kept for the purpose, and a certificate duly verified by its parent or guardian, or if the child shall have none such, then by itself ; stating age and place of birth of such child, shall be kept on file by the employer, which book and certificate shall be produced by him or his agent at the requirement of the Inspector. Any person who knowingly violates or omits to comply with the foregoing provisions of the act, may, on conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than $50 or more than $100 or by imprisonment for not less than thirty or more than ninety days.
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DAIRY COMMISSIONER.
FACTORY INSPECTOR.
INSPECTOR.
APPOINTED.
ASSISTANT INSPECTOR.
APPOINTED.
James Connolly
,May
20, 1856
John Franey
May 20, 1886
DAIRY COMMISSIONER.
An act of the Legislature, passed April 24, 1884 (chap. 202), au- thorized the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Commissioner, who shall be known as the New York State Dairy Commissioner, who is charged, under the direction of the Governor, with the enforcement of the various provisions of law passed to prevent deception in sales of dairy products. The Commissioner is anthorized and empowered to appoint such assistant commissioners and to employ such experts, chemists, agents and such counsel as may be deemed by him necessary ; their compensation to be fixed by him. The expenses of the Commissioner and his em- ployees are directed to be paid by the Treasurer of the State upon the warrant of the Comptroller, but the entire expenses of the Com- missioner are restricted to such sums as may be appropriated for the purpose.
The Commissioner and assistant commissioners, and such experts, chemists, agents and counsel as they shall duly authorize for the purpose, shall have full access, egress and ingress to all places of business, factories, farms, buildings, carriages, cars, vessels and cans nsed in the manufacture and sale of any dairy products or any imitation thereof. They also have power and anthority to open any package, can or vessel containing such articles which may be manufactured, sold or exposed for sale in violation of the provisions of law and may inspect the contents therein and take therefrom samples for analysis .. The Commissioner is required to make annual reports to the Legislature, not later than the 15th of January of each year; of his work and proceedings and he is further required to report in detail the number of assistant com- missioners, experts, chemists, agents and counsel he has employed, with their expenses and disbursements. The salary of the Commis- sioner, who is required to be a citizen of the State, is fixed at $3,000 per annum and his necessary expenses incurred in the dis- charge of official duty. IIe holds office for the term of two years; and until his successor is appointed. The Commissioner may be re- moved from office by the Governor and his successor appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. A subsequent law passed in 1885 (chap. 184), declares its purpose to be to prevent de-
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ception in the sale of dairy products, and to preserve the public health which is endangered by the manufacture, sale or use of the articles or substances therein regulated or prohibited. An act, passed June 4, 1886 (chap. 577), provides that actions brought to recover penalties prescribed by the " act to prevent deception in sales of dairy products," shall have preference upon the calendar of the courts of record of this State next after civil causes entitled to a preference under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure. Actions for penalties may be brought and prosecuted in the name of the people of the State of New York by any citizen of the State, and the citizen so prosecuting shall be entitled to one-half of the pen- alty recovered. The balance is required to be paid over to the city or county in which the action is brought.
COMMISSIONER.
Josiah K. Brown ..... Appointed May 2, 1884.
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