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He shall also give notice of the discharge of a pupil by the Trustees, to the person and in the mode prescribed by law; and shall see to the removal and delivery of such discharged pupil to the proper county and officer. (Sec. 20.)

The design and objects of the Asylum, as established by the action of the Legislature, are not of a custodial character; but to furnish the means of education to that portion of the youth of the State, not provided for in any of its other educational Institutions. Those only will therefore be received, into the Asylum, who are of a proper school-attending age, and for such periods of time as shall, in the estimation of the Board of Trustees, suffice to impart all the education practicable in each particular case, and in conformity with the regulations hereinafter specified.

Children between the ages of seven and fourteen, who are idiotic or so deficient in intelligence as to be incapable of being educated at any ordinary school, and who are not epileptic, insane or greatly deformed, may be admitted by the Superintendent with the advice and consent of the Executive Committee. Applications in behalf of others shall be referred to the action of the Board of Trustees.

The parents or next friends of those in whose behalf applications are made for addmission -sic- as pupils, shall make answers in writing to such questions as the Superintendent and Committee shall prescribe. They shall moreover, if of sufficient ability, engage to pay such reasonable sum for the education and support of the pupils, and to furnish them with such proper clothing while in the Institution as shall be stipulated by the Superintendent, and they shall in all cases be bound to receive them back when required, free of expense to the Asylum. But no idiots shall be received into the Asylum, without there shall have been first lodged with the Superintendent thereof, a request to that effect, under the hand of the person by whose direction he is sent, stating the age, and place of nativity, if known, of the idiot, his Christian and surname, the town, or city, and county in which they severally reside, the ability or otherwise of the idiot, his parents or guardians, to provide for his support in whole or in part, and if in part only, in what part; and the degree of relationship, or other circumstance of connection between him and the person requesting his admission; which statement shall be verified in writing, by the oath of two disinterested persons, residents of the same county with the idiot, acquainted with the facts and circumstances so stated, and certified to be credible by the county judge of the same county. And no idiot shall be received into said Asylum unless the county judge, of the county liable for his support, shall certify that such idiot is an eligible and proper candidate for admission to said Asylum as aforesaid. The State pupils in the Asylum will be selected in equal numbers as far as may be, from each Judicial District from those whose parents or guardians are unable to provide for their support therein.

The State pupils will be expected to come to the Asylum, provided with a supply of neat and substantial clothing for the first six months, after which period the clothing will be furnished by the Asylum, at the expense of the respective counties of which they are residents, as in the case of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind Asylums of the State.

A bond will be required in all cases, except the case of a State pupil, to insure the removal of the pupil free of expense to the Institution.

All pupils will be received upon trial for one month, at the end of which time a report upon the case will be made to the parents or parties sending them.

The education furnished by the Institution will include not only the simpler elements of instruction usually taught in common schools, where that is practicable, but will embrace a course of training in the more practical matters of every day life, the cultivation of habits of decency, propriety, self-management and self-reliance, and the development, and enlargement of a capacity for useful occupation.

There shall be a vacation during the whole month of August, unless otherwise directed by the board, at which period all pupils must be removed from the Asylum by the parents or guardians, if required by the Superintendent.

By-Laws can only be altered at a regular meeting of the board, by a majority of the whole board.

AN ACT to re-organize the State Asylum for Idiots, and to provide for the government and management thereof.

Passed April 12, 1862; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The management of the asylum for Idiots shall be vested in a board of trustees, consisting of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and eight other persons.