"outdoor aid." (b) Burial orders. (c) Orders for hospital aid or treatment, designated "indoor relief.” `Indoor relief in abodes provided by law for cases requiring permanent assistance shall be granted only by the Superintendent of the Poor of Erie County, or other proper state or county officer under the general laws of the state, and all cases requiring such relief shall be referred by the Overseer to the proper state or county officer.

§ 357. Orders for hospital aid or treatment shall only be made upon the recommendation of a city physician, specifying the nature of the disease or injury, or, if the exigency of the case is such that a formal recommendation cannot be obtained before the order is given, the case shall be personally examined, and the order approved or disapproved by a city physician within forty-eight hours thereafter.

$358. The Overseer shall contract for burials, and also for furnishing boots, shoes, and fuel upon the orders furnished by him, with suitable persons, under ordinances to be enacted by the Common Council.

§ 359. Orders of the Overseer for provisions, boots and shoes, or fuel, or other outdoor aid, shall specify what nature of articles shall be furnished on the same, and the value thereof. Except where contracts have been made as provided in the foregoing section, the order shall be drawn in blank as regards the person or firm drawn upon, and they shall be valid evidence of indebtedness against the city in the hands of the person or firm who shall accept and fill the same.

$ 360. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person or firm to furnish beer, liquors, or intoxicating drinks of any kind on an order of the Overseer of the Poor, or to buy such order from the person to whom it was issued, or from any other person, before it has been accepted and filled, or to furnish any article not specified or embraced

therein. Such orders shall be drawn with proper blank spaces for the following entries, which shall be made thereon by the person accepting and filling them: (1) name of the person presenting the order; (2) the name. of the person accepting it; (3) the amount and kind of articles furnished, with the prices thereof; and they shall in all cases be returned by the acceptor, or his agents or assigns, to the Overseer, to be examined by him, and entered in his books of records, and to be countersigned by him before they shall be paid by the City Treasurer.

§ 361. The city physicians appointed under section two hundred and thirty-four of this act shall render all necessary medical services to indigent sick persons within their respective districts, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Overseer of the Poor, and approved by the Board of Health, and subject to his directions. The officers in charge of the several police precincts of the city may issue to the several city physicians orders to visit any indigent sick person residing within their respective districts, and it shall be the duty of said city physician to so visit any such person upon receiving such order, and any indigent sick person may apply to any officer in charge of a police precinct for such an order.

§ 362. The Overseer shall furnish the city physicians with official prescription blanks, which shall be used by the city physicians in prescribing medicines for the indigent sick attended by them on the order of the Overseer or the officers in charge of the several police precincts, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Overseer. Said prescription blanks shall be signed by the physician issuing them, and shall have the same force and effect, and be accepted and filed* in the same manner, and shall be returned and paid in the same manner as orders of the Overseer for provisions issued under section three hundred and fifty-nine of this act. Such prescriptions

shall be returned to the Overseer of the Poor within thirty days for payment.

*So in the original; should be "filled."

§ 363. The city physicians shall furnish to the Overseer reports weekly, and whenever required by the Overseer, of the names and addresses of all persons attended by them, with the nature of their ailments, the number of visits made to each, and the number and kind of prescriptions given to them.

§ 364. Any fraud practiced or false representation made by an applicant for city aid or relief, or by any other person, to procure aid or relief to be given, or to procure any order for outdoor aid to be accepted or filled, or to be paid by the city, or any willful act of any city officer or other person, designed to impede or in any way to interfere with the just and proper administration of this department shall be a misdemeanor.

TITLE XIV.

WARD OFFICERS AND THEIR POWERS.

§ 365. The electors of each ward shall elect one Supervisor and one Constable,*and in addition the electors of the twenty-fifth ward shall elect a justice of the peace for the term of four years, who shall have and execute in said ward the powers conferred by law upon justices of the peace in towns, but in civil actions and proceedings he shall have jurisdiction only when the defendant is a nonresident of the city at the time the action or proceeding is commenced, or when the plaintiff and defendant both reside in the twenty-fifth ward. The term of office of the Supervisor and Constable shall be two years. Constables shall have the same powers as constables of towns, except in criminal cases.

Thus amended by L. 1895, c. 805, Sec. 21.

*Superseded by L. 1898, c. 189. Section 1 of this act amended Section 385 of the Charter by increasing the number of justices of the peace for the city from two to three. Section 2 of the act abolished the office of justice of the peace for the twenty-fifth ward, but did not change the language of Section 365 of the Charter.

§366. This section which provided for the choice of inspectors of election is omitted because it has been superseded by L. 1896, c. 909, sec. 12, which vests in the Mayor the appointment of these officers.

$367. The Alderman and Supervisor of each ward shall, in their ward, possess the powers of town fence viewers.

$368. The supervisors shall have the same powers as supervisors of the towns of Erie County.

TITLE XV.

ELECTIONS.

$369. The term of all officers elected under this act shall commence on the first day of January after their election, except that the terms of officers elected to fill vacancies shall commence as soon as they have qualified, unless herein otherwise provided. All elective officers now in office shall continue to hold office until their terms will expire under the act hereby amended, as modified by section three of article twelve of the constitution of the state of New York. Successors to all elective officers shall be chosen at the municipal election held next preceding the expiration of their term of office. Thus amended by L. 1895, c. 805, Sec. 22.

The amendment substituted the first day in place of the first Monday of January, and added all after the first sentence.

§ 370. The municipal and ward elections shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November in each odd-numbered year.

Thus amended by L. 1895, c. 805, Sec. 23.

This section originally read: "The annual city and ward election shall be held on the same day with the state general election."

§ 371. The City Clerk shall publish in the official paper, and in three other daily newspapers of the city, one of which shall be printed in the German language, a notice of every election to be held under this act. The notice shall be published twice a week for three weeks, prior to the election, and shall specify the day on which the election is to be held, the time of opening and closing the polls, the officers to be elected, the boundaries of the several election districts, and the places of holding the polls therein.

§ 372. In each district for the election of officers under this act there shall be a ballot-box and other boxes required by the general election laws of the state. Upon the closing of the polls the inspectors shall forthwith, without adjournment, canvass the votes, and shall make and certify statements of the result in the manner required by the general election laws of the state. Separate returns as to city officers voted for, including *judges of the Superior Court of Buffalo, shall be filed by said inspectors in the office of the City Clerk on the day next succeeding the election.

*Superior Court abolished by Constitution of the State, adopted in 1894.

§ 373. On the second Monday after every annual election, the Board of Aldermen shall convene at its usual place of meeting at two o'clock in the afternoon, when the City Clerk shall lay before it the certificates of the inspectors of election filed with him, and a tabular statement of their results, and the Board of Aldermen shall forthwith canvass the returns, and determine therefrom and certify who received the largest number of votes and are elected to the several offices. The said certificates shall be made in duplicate, one of which shall be filed in the office of the clerk of Erie County, and the other shall be filed and recorded in the office of the City Clerk.