§ 2631. Board of visitors; special provision. The board of visitors
of each such home shall consist of nine members appointed from the
members of the New York departments of the major organizations of war
veterans to which charters have been issued by Acts of Congress or of
their women's auxiliaries. The terms of office of such visitors
hereafter appointed shall be five years, and they shall be so appointed
that the terms of two of the members shall expire on the first day of
February of each year, except that the term of but one member shall so
expire every fifth year. Appointments shall be so made that there will
be at all times four women and five men members of such board.