appointed. penses; how verdict of "not guilty by reason of insanity," and upon the rendition of such verdict, the court, before which the issue shall have been tried, may upon motion of the attorneygeneral, order that the person so acquitted shall forthwith be committed, by the sheriff, to the keeper of the almshouse of the county wherein the case was tried, or of the county of the residence of said insane person, or the court may order such person to be placed in any lunatic asylum, or institution for insane persons in the United States. For this purpose the same court may appoint a trustee, whose Trustee to be duty it shall be to contract with any such asylum His duty, exor institution for the admission and support of such defrayed." insane person. The expenses of the removal of such insane person, and of his admission into and support at such asylum or institution, shall be borne by the trustee of the poor of the county where the act charged was committed, or of the county of such insane person's residence; but if any such insane person shall have any real or personal estate, said trustee of the poor may have for the expenses and charges so in- Remedy of curred as aforesaid, the same remedy as is provided poor. in section 22 of chapter 48 of the revised statutes of this state in the case of insane persons supported in the county almshouse. trustee of Discretionary court of gen. 20. The court of general sessions of the peace and jail delivery of the county wherein such case shall have Ibid § 2. been tried, may order that such insane person powers of charged and acquitted as aforesaid, shall be set at sessions. large whenever they shall be satisfied that the public safety will not be thereby endangered, or may order such person to be removed from any such asylum or institution to the almshouse of the county where he resided at the time of the commission of the act charged in the indictment, or of the county where the act charged was committed. Custody of 21. When any insane person shall be confined in jail, it shall be lawful for the levy court to issue an order to a Ch. 8, §31. constable, commanding him to demand and receive the insane. from the sheriff such insane person, and deliver him at the alinshouse to the keeper thereof; and the constable shall forthwith obey said order; and if the sentence of any convict shall be respited, on the ground of insanity, such convict shall be subject to removal to the almshouse under such an order. The levy court of the county from which any insane poor Charges of removal. person shall have been removed under the provisions of chapter 48, shall allow to the trustees of the poor, in their settlement with said court, the charges and expenses defrayed and paid in such removal. U. S., 1878, § 4838. Establish 1. There shall be in the District of Columbia a government hospital for the insane, and its objects shall be the Rev. Stat. of most humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the army and navy of the ment of the United States and of the District of Columbia. government hospital for the insane. $439. by act of 1881, The superin as amended ch. 132. §1. tendent. 2. The chief executive officer of the hospital for the insane shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the secretary of the interior, and shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, in such sum and with such securities as may be required by the secretary of the interior. The superintendent shall be a well-educated physician, possessing competent experience in the care and treatment of the insane; he shall reside on the premises, and devote his whole time to the welfare of the institution; he shall, subject to the approval of the visitors, engage and discharge all needful and usual employes in the care of the insane, and all laborers on the farm, and determine their wages and duties; he shall be the responsible disbursing agent of the institution, and shall be ex-officio secretary of the board of visitors. § 4840. Board of visitors. 3. Nine citizens of the District of Columbia, to be appointed by the president, shall constitute a board of visitors of the hospital for the insane. The term of office of three visitors shall expire biennially on the thirtieth day of June in every alternate year, dating from the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. Should any vacancy occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term of such visitor. The office of visitor shall be honorary and without compensation. 4. The board of visitors shall select from their number a President of president, to preside at their meetings for one year, or until a successor is elected. the board of visitors. § 4842. Powers and duties of the board of visitors. 5. The board of visitors, subject to the approval of the secretary of the interior, may make any needful by-laws for the government of themselves, and of the superintendent and his employes, and of the patients, not inconsistent with law; they shall visit the hospital at stated periods, and exercise so careful a supervision over its expenditures and general operations that the government and community may have confidence in the correctness of its management; they shall make annually to the secretary of the interior a report for the preceding fiscal year setting forth the condition and wants of the institution. § 4843. Admission of Insane persons of the army, navy, 6. The superintendent, upon the order of the secretary of war, of the secretary of the navy, and of the secretary of the treasury, respectively, shall receive and keep in custody until they are cured, or removed by the same authority which ordered their reception, insane persons of the following descriptions: (1) Insane persons belonging to the army, navy, marine corps, and revenue cutter service. marine corps, etc. (2) Civilians employed in the quartermaster's and subsistence departments of the army who may be, or may hereafter become, insane while in such employment. (3) Men who, while in the service of the United States, in the army, navy, or marine corps, have been admitted to the hospital, and have been thereafter discharged from it on the supposition that they have recovered their reason, and have, within three years after such discharge, become again insane from causes existing at the time of such discharge, and have no adequate means of support. (4) Indigent insane persons who have been in either of the said services, and been discharged therefrom on account of disability arising from such insanity. (5) Indigent insane persons who have become insane within three years after their discharge from such service, from causes which arose during and were produced by said service. pro R. 8. Supl., Laws of 1880, the Who may be 7. Hereafter the admissions to the government hospital for the insane, shall be limited to such persons as are entitled to treatment therein under the visions of title fifty-nine, chapter four, of Revised Statutes of the United States, and under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred lumbia. and seventy-five, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, second session, forty-third congress. [§§ 4843-4854.] hospital for in trict of Co Laws of 1875, amendment In marine hos. 8. Insane patients of said service (marine hospital-service) shall be admitted into the government hospital for R. S. Supl. the insane upon the order of the secretary of the ch. 156, § 5, treasury, and shall be cared for therein until cured to $4843 or until removed by the same authority; and the pital-service charge for each such patient shall not exceed four be admitted to dollars and fifty cents a week, which charge shall Hospital for be paid out of the marine hospital fund. patients may Government Insane; charge therefor. Insane of the 9. The secretary of the navy may cause persons in the naval service or marine corps, who become insane while § 1551. in the service, to be placed in such hospital for the navy. insane as, in his opinion, will be most convenient and best calculated to promise a restoration of reason. And he may pay to any such hospital, other than the government hospital for the insane in the District of Columbia, the pay which may from time to time be due to such insane person, and he may, in addition thereto, pay to such institution, from the annual appropriation for the naval service, under the head of contingent enumerated, any deficiency of a reasonable expense, not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum. |