Pennsylvania Act 1901-482 — STATE HOSPITALS - RELATING TO

Act text

AN ACT

To provide for the acceptance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of a conveyance of the real estate, buildings and personal property of the Lackawanna Hospital, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to be used as a State Hospital for the Northern Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania; providing for the incorporation of "The trustees of the State Hospital of the Northern Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania," and for the management of the same, and making an appropriation for the repair and improvement thereof.

Whereas, The Lackawanna Hospital, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has since its organization, under special charter from the Legislature in one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, maintained a public hospital and dispensary in the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania, for the reception and care of the sick and injured of that city and vicinity;

And Whereas, There is at present no State Hospital for the Northern Anthracite Coal Region, although such a one is imperatively required, and the said Lackawanna Hospital, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, whose hospital is located in the centre of said region and convenient of access to every part thereof, are willing to convey to the State their property in said city of Scranton to be used and managed as a State Hospital for the reception and care of the sick and injured of said district; therefore,

Section 1. (1 repealed Jun. 7, 1923, P.L.498, No.274)

Section 2. This hospital shall be specially devoted to the reception, care and treatment of injured persons in the Northern Anthracite Coal Region, composed of the county of Lackawanna and the adjacent counties of Wyoming, Susquehanna and Wayne, and in the order of admission this class shall have precedence over paying patients.

Section 3. It shall be lawful for the trustees of said hospital to receive contributions or donations from any person, firm or corporation, offering to contribute or donate any money or other valuable consideration, whether by will, deed, gift, or otherwise, to aid in the support, maintenance and for improving the property of said hospital. Provided: That the proceeds of all contributions or donations received by the said trustees, under the provisions of this section, shall be specially appropriated for the purposes herein stated. Provided further, That an itemized statement of the same, showing the whole amount of money received by the said trustees under the provisions of this section, and the name or names of any person, firm or corporation contributing or donating the same, together with an itemized statement of the expenditures of said money, shall be made quarterly, under oath to the Auditor General, the same as statements for State appropriations are now required by law.

Section 4. For the purpose of carrying this act into effect the sum of ninety thousand dollars is hereby specifically appropriated for the two fiscal years beginning June first, one thousand nine hundred and one, for the following purposes, namely.

For the purpose of maintenance, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For the purpose of improving and enlarging the hospital buildings, and for the erection of new buildings, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Section 5. That the Governor, judges of the several courts of record of this Commonwealth, inspectors of mines for the district in which said hospital is located, and members of the General Assembly, shall be ex-officio visitors of the said institution.