admit such representatives into every part of the hospital and its buildings, and give them access on demand to all records, reports, books, papers and accounts pertaining to the hospital. (Added by L. 1909, ch. 341, in effect May 13, 1909.) 365 § 49-c a § 49-e. Hospitals at almshouses. Wherever a hospital for the care and treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis 13 c 379 exists in connection with, or on the grounds of a county almshouse, the board of supervisors may, after sections forty-five to fortynine-e of this chapter take effect, appoint a board of managers for such hospital and such hospital, and its board of managers, shall thereafter be subject to all the provisions of this act, in like manner as if it had been originally established hereunder. Any hospital which may hereafter be established by any board of supervisors shall in like manner be subject to all the provisions of said section. (Added by L. 1909, ch. 341, in effect May 13, 1909.) ARTICLE 4 Clerks of Boards of Supervisors Section 50. Duties. 51. Annual statement. 52. Report of county indebtedness. 53. Statement of railroad, telegraph, telephone and elec- 54. Forfeiture. § 50. Duties. Clerks of boards of supervisors shall: 1. Record in books provided for the purpose all the proceedings of such board. 2. Make regular entries of all their resolutions or decisions. 3. Record the vote of each supervisor on any question submitted to the board, when the law authorizing the vote requires an entry of the yeas and nays, and in other cases if required by any member present. 4. File and preserve all accounts acted upon by the board. 5. Designate upon every account audited and allowed by the board the amount so audited and allowed, and the items or amount disallowed; and deliver to any person who may demand it, a certified copy of any account on file in his office, on receiving from such person eight cents per folio therefor. 6. Keep the books and papers of the board open to public inspection without charge. 7. Transmit to the librarian of the state library at Albany, a of the proceedings of such board, annually, and within twenty days after the same shall be published. copy 8. Prepare the tax-rolls under the direction of the board. 9. Perform such other duties as may lawfully be required of him by the board. § 51. Annual statement. The clerk shall annually, on or before the first day of January, make out and certify, and within two weeks cause to be published in a newspaper printed in the county, with the abstract of accounts furnished by town auditors, a statement for the preceding year, containing: 1. An abstract of all county accounts presented to the board at its last annual meeting, allowed or disallowed, with the amount claimed and allowed, and the name of each person presenting the same, and the general nature of the account. 2. The amount, items and nature of all compensation, audited by the board to each member thereof. 3. The number of days the board was in session, and the distance traveled by each member in attending the same. § 52. Report of county indebtedness. The clerk shall annually on or before the second Monday in December, or such other date, not later than the third Monday in January thereafter, as the board of supervisors of any county shall by resolution thereof determine, transmit to the state comptroller by mail, in the form which the comptroller shall prescribe, a certified statement of all the indebtedness of his county, and of each town, city, village and school district therein, and of the aggregate valued amount of real and personal estate in each town or ward, as corrected by the board of supervisors, and it shall be the duty of the person or persons charged with the issue or payment of such indebtedness to transmit a statement of the same to the said clerk annually, on or before the first day of November. The provisions of this section shall also apply to the county of New York. § 53. Statement of railroad, telegraph, telephone and electric-light taxes. The clerk shall, within five days after the making out, or issuing of the annual tax-warrant by the board of supervisors, prepare and deliver to the county treasurer of his county, a statement showing the title of all railroad corporations and telegraph, telephone and electric-light lines in such county, as appear on the last assessment-roll of the towns or cities therein, the valuation of the property, real and personal, of such corporation and line in each town or city, and the amount of tax assessed or levied on such valuation in each town or city in his county. § 54. Forfeiture. 1. Any such clerk, or any person or persons required under this article to make any report, return or statement who shall refuse or neglect to make the same, shall forfeit to the county the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by the district attorney thereof in the name of the county, and whenever such failure or neglect is caused by any such clerk, person or persons required to make such report, return or statement under the provisions of section fifty-two of this article, such district attorney shall forthwith proceed to obtain such forfeiture on notice in writing by the state comptroller of such failure or neglect; but such clerk shall not be subject to such forfeiture, in case he certify to the said comptroller, on or before the second Monday in December, the name or names of such person or persons who have refused or neglected to furnish him with the information necessary to make such report, return or statement required by said section fifty-two of this article; provided, however, that any such report, return or statement, which may have been made after said second Monday in December, shall be furnished by said clerk to the comptroller immediately upon its receipt. 2. The costs awarded upon the collection of such recoveries may be retained by the district attorney for his own use. ARTICLE 5 Duties of Boards of Supervisors Relating to Highways and Bridges Section 60. Limitation of article. 61. County highways and bridges. 62. Location and construction of bridges. 63. County aid to towns for the construction and repair of bridges. 64. Construction by county of destroyed bridges. 65. Apportionment of expenses when a bridge is intersected by town or county lines. 66. County's share of expenses to be raised and paid to the commissioners of highways of the towns. 67. Towns authorized to construct a bridge outside of a boundary line. 68. Bridges over county lines. 69. Towns authorized to purchase roads or toll bridges. 70. Streets outside of city limits. 71. Survey and records of highways. 72. Regulation of toll-rates. 73. Highways in counties of more than 300,000 acres of unimproved land. 74. Appropriation of certain non-resident highway taxes. 75. Balance of state appropriations. 76. Alteration of state roads. 77. Further powers. 78. Powers as to tires on vehicles. 79. Abandoned turnpike, plank and macadamized roads. 80. Boundary lines. 368 '14 c 233 § 60. Limitation of article. This article shall not apply to bridges on the Hudson river below Waterford, or on the East river, or over the waters forming a part of the boundaries of the state. § 61. County highways and bridges. A board of supervisors shall, on the application of twenty-five resident taxpayers, when satisfied that it is for the interest of the county, lay out, open, alter or discontinue a county highway therein, or cause the same to be done, and construct, repair or abandon a county bridge therein, or cause the same to be done, when the board shall deem the authority conferred on commissioners of highways insufficient for that purpose, or that the interests of the county will be promoted thereby. All expenses so incurred shall be a county charge. Such powers shall not be exercised unless the applicants therefor shall prove to the board the service of a written notice, personally or by mail, on a commissioner of highways of each town in the county, at least twelve days prior to the presentation of such application, specifying therein the object thereof; and when the application is to lay out a highway, or construct a bridge, the route or location thereof; and in all other cases, a designation of the highway or bridge to be affected thereby. (Thus amended by L. 1909, ch. 240, § 9, in effect April 22, 1909.) Amendment of 1909 inserted “twelve” for “twenty" in last sentence. § 62. Location and construction of bridges. The board may authorize the location, change of location and construction of any bridge, applied for by any town or towns, jointly, or by other than a municipal corporation, created under a general law, or by any corporation or individual for private purposes; and if a public bridge, erected other than by a municipal corporation, establish the rates of toll for crossing such bridge; but if such bridge is to cross a navigable stream, provision shall be made in the resolution or permission authorizing the same, for the erection and maintenance of a suitable draw, to prevent any obstruction of the navigation of such stream; and if a private bridge, provision shall be made that the draw shall be kept open as may be required to permit all vessels to pass without loss of headway. When such bridge shall be intersected by the line of counties, the action of the board of supervisors of each county shall be necessary to give the jurisdiction herein permitted. But this section shall not apply to a pier bridge erected or to be erected over the Mohawk river above the state dam by a corporation organized under the transportation corporations law, provided such corporation shall comply with all the provisions of said transportation corporations law applicable thereto; such a corporation, without further proceeding, shall have the right to erect and maintain piers in said river for the purposes of such a bridge. § 63. County aid to towns for the construction and repair of bridges. If the board of supervisors of any county shall deem any town in the county to be unreasonably burdened by its expenses for the construction and repair of its bridges, the board may cause a sum of money, not exceeding two thousand dollars in any one year, to be raised by the county and paid to such town to aid in defraying such expenses. § 64. Construction by county of destroyed bridges. If any bridge within a county, or intersected by any boundary line of a county, shall be destroyed by the elements, and the board of supervisors of the county shall deem that the expenses of the construction of a new bridge at or near the site of the bridge so destroyed would be too burdensome upon the town or towns within such county, which would otherwise be liable therefor, the board of supervisors of any such county may provide for the construction and completion of a bridge and all necessary ap proaches thereto, at or near the site of the bridge so destroyed. If the bridge so destroyed shall have been constructed by a corporation created under a general law, and the site thereof, and the approaches thereto, or either, shall be the property of such corporation, such board of supervisors may purchase the interest of such corporation, or any other person, in such site or approaches, if such purchase can be accomplished upon reasonable terms; but if such site or approaches can not be lawfully acquired by such purchase, or otherwise, upon reasonable terms, such board may acquire title to premises on either side of such site, and provide for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto, at such place, at the expense of the county, or of the two counties jointly, as the case may be, provided such bridge shall be so located as not to increase the distance to be traveled upon the highway to reach each end of such bridge more than five rods. Any board of supervisors providing for the construction of any such bridge may determine by resolution whether the expenses of the maintenance and repair thereof shall thereafter be a county charge, or a charge upon such town or towns. § 65. Apportionment of expenses when a bridge is intersected by town or county lines. If any public free bridge, intersected by the boundary line of a county, shall also be intersected by the boundary line of two or more towns in such county, the board of supervisors of such county shall apportion as it shall deem equitable, between such towns, their respective shares of the expenses of the construction, maintenance and repair of such bridge, and the amount to be received by each town, of |