CHAPTER XIII.
department of public charities.

Sec. 658. Jurisdiction; salary.

659.  Rules and reg'ulations; subordinate officers.

660.  Public institutions under tbe jurisdiction of the commissioners.

661.  Payments to private institutions.

662.  Powers of commissioners as to destitute and other persons.

663.  Classification and instruction of inmates.

664.  Powers of commissioners as to destitute and other children.

665.  Notice of commitment of children.

666.  Children committed as public charges;  investigation.

667.  Term of commitment of children;   discharg-e.

668.  Saving clause as to certain existing laws.

669.  Record of inmates of institutions.

670.  Temporary care in accident cases.
071. Temporary care of the insane.

672.  Alteration and repair of buildings.

673.  Potter's field.

674.  Accounts; annual estimates; expenditures.

675.  Advertisements for supplies.

676.  Expenditures for the relief of the blind.

677.  Detail of inmates of correctional institutions to work in depart¬

ment.

678.  Care of non-residents inBellevue and Kings county hospitals.

679.  Requisitions of subordinate officers.

680.  Reports of subordinate officers.

681.  Employment of inmates;  articles manufactured;  cultivation of

lands.

682.  Hours of labor; discipline.

683.  Support of poor persons by relatives.

684.  Conduct of bastardy proceedings,

685.  Maintenance of abandoned wives and children.

686.  Commitments in abandonment proceedings;  surety.

687.   Actions on bonds in abandonment proceedings.

688.  Recoveries in abandonment proceedings.

689.  Appeals in abandonment proceedings; costs.

Jurisdiction; salary.

§ 658. The head of the department of public charities shall be
called the board of public charities. Said board shall consist of
three commissioners, who shall be designated commissioners of
public charities of The City of New York.    They shall be appointed