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# 10. The resident officers of the Asylum and all the teachers, attendants and assistants actually employed therein, during the time of such employment shall be exempt from serving on juries, from all assessments for labor on the highways, and in time of peace from all service in the militia; and the certificate of the superintendent shall be conclusive evidence of such employment.

# 11. The board shall keep in a bound book, to be provided for that purpose, a fair and full record of all its doings, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of any of its members, and of all persons whom the Governor or either House of the Legislature may appoint to examine the same.

# 12. The board of trustees shall maintain an effective inspection of the affairs and management of the institution; for which purpose the board shall meet at the Asylum twice in each year, at such time as the by-laws shall provide; and a committee of three trustees to be appointed by the board, at the annual meeting thereof, shall visit it once in every month; such committee shall also perform such other duties, and exercise such other powers as shall be prescribed by the by-laws, or as the board may, from time to time, ordain.

# 13. It shall be the duty of the resident officers to admit any of the trustees into every part of the Asylum, and to exhibit to him or them, on demand, all the books, papers, accounts and writings belonging to the institution, or pertaining to its business, management, discipline or government; also, to furnish copies, abstracts and reports whenever required by the trustees.

# 14. The treasurer shall have the custody of all moneys, bonds, notes, mortgages and other securities and obligations belonging to the Asylum. He shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and payments, in the manner directed in the by-laws, and such other accounts as the trustees shall prescribe. He shall balance all the accounts on his books annually, on the first day of October, and make a statement of the balances thereon, and an abstract of all the receipts and payments of the past year; which he shall, within three days thereafter, deliver to the auditing committee of the trustees, who shall compare the same with his books and vouchers, and verify the same by a further comparison with the books of the superintendent, and certify the correctness thereof to the trustees at their annual meeting. He shall further render a quarterly statement of his receipts and payments to said auditing committee, who shall compare and verify the same as aforesaid, and report the result, duly certified, to the trustees at the annual meeting thereof, who shall cause the same to be recorded in one of the books of the Asylum. He shall further render an account of the state of his books, and of the funds and other property in his custody, whenever required so to do by the trustees.

# 15. Said treasurer is also authorized to receive for the use of the Asylum, any and all sums of money which may be due upon any note or bond in his hands belonging to the Asylum; also any and all sums which may be charged and due according to the by-laws of the Asylum, -- for the support of any pupil therein, or for actual disbursements made in his behalf for necessary clothing and traveling expenses, in an action in the supreme court, to be brought in said treasurer's name, as treasurer of the Asylum of Idiots; and which shall not abate by his death, removal or resignation, against the individual or county liable therefor, and having neglected to pay the same when demanded by the treasurer; in which action judgment shall be rendered for such sum as shall be found due, together with costs, and interest from the time of the demand made as aforesaid. Every such action may be brought in the county of Onondaga. Said treasurer may, also, upon the receipt of the money due upon such judgment, or upon any mortgage in his hands belonging to the Asylum, execute a release, and acknowledge full satisfaction thereof, so that the same may be discharged of record.

# 16. The superintendent shall, at the time of the admission of any pupil into the Asylum, enter in a book to be printed and kept for that purpose, a minute, with date, of the name and residence of the pupil, and of the person or persons upon whose application he is received; together with a copy of the application, statement, certificate and all other papers accompanying such idiot; the originals of which he shall file and carefully preserve.

17. The supervisors of any county in the State, from which State pupils may be selected and received into the Asylum, are hereby authorized and required, while such pupils remain at the Asylum, to raise the sum of twenty dollars, annually, for the purpose of furnishing suitable clothing for each pupil from said county; and, on or before the first day of April in each year, pay over the same to the treasurer of the Asylum. The superintendent shall immediately, on receiving any pupil, give notice thereof to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county from which such pupil shall have been sent to said Asylum.