and cause him to be removed to the town by which he was committed. 35. The officers ordering the commitment of a person unable Ibid § 13, State aid to weekly charges. Ibid § 21. Those liable to pay for his support, may certify in writing to the trustees that fact, and that he has not relations liable and of sufficient ability to pay for it; and if the saue persons; trustees are satisfied that such certificate is true, the treasurer of the hospital may charge to the state one dollar and fifty cents per week for his board, and deduct it from the charge made to the patient or town for his support. 36. When any friend, person, or town, liable for the support of any patient, who has been in the hospital six for support months, not committed by order of the supreme judicial court, nor afflicted with homicidal insanity, thinks he is unreasonably detained, he may apply to the municipal officers of the town where the insane resides, and they shall inquire into the case, and summon before them any proper testimony, and their decision and order shall be binding on the parties. They shall tax legal costs and decide who shall pay them. If such application is unsuccessful, it shall not be made again till the expiration of another six months. 37. The person or town, liable for the support of a person may apply for discharge. Ibid § 19. Also, when unlawfully committed, and expense of removal, limit of. when lawfully committed to the hospital, shall be liable therefor, and for the expense of his removal, when unlawfully committed and removed as provided in section 9;* but the expenses of such removal are not to exceed ten cents per mile from the hospital to the place of commitment. 38. Any town thus made chargeable on the first instance Ibid § 20, as amended 1872, ch. 54. Towns have remedy against the person, or and paying for the commitment and support of the insane at the hospital, may recover the amount paid of the insane, if able, or of persons legally liable for his support, or of the town where his legal settlement is, as if incurred for the expense of any pauper, but if he has no legal settlement in this state, such expenses shall be refunded by the state and the governor and council shall audit all such claims and draw their warrant on the treasurer therefor. No insane person those liable for his support as a pauper. * Pl. 17. shall suffer any of the disabilities incident to pauperism, nor be hereafter deemed a pauper, by reason of such support. But the time during which the insane person is so supported shall not be included in the period of residence necessary to change his settlement. Ibid § 22. Overseers of move, when poor to re 39. When the overseers of any town, liable for the support of a patient at the hospital, are notified by mail by the superintendent, that he has recovered from his insanity, they shall cause him to be removed to their town; and if they neglect it for fifteen days, the superintendent shall cause it to be done at the expense of such town. notified so to do. Persons dis bid $ 23. charged unremoved; upon notice, removal. der 4, how town liable, for costs of 40. When any patient is discharged from the hospital, by the trustees, under the provisions of section 4,* they shall cause the selectmen of the town, or the mayor of the city from which such patient was received, to be immediately notified by mail, and on receipt of such notice said town or city shall cause such patient to be forthwith removed thereto; and if they neglect such removal for thirty days thereafter, such patient may be removed to said town or city by the trustees, or their order; and the superintendent may maintain an action in his name, against such city or town, for the recovery of all expenses necessarily incurred in the removal of such patient. 41. The preceding sections shall not apply to towns having less than two hundred inhabitants, but all insane persons found, and having their residence in such towns, who have no settlement within any town of this state, and who have no means of their own for support, or are without relatives able and liable to support them, shall be supported in the hospital at the expense of the state. bid § 24. than two hun Towns of less dred inhabi tants not liamoval, etc. ble for re 42. When any person is indicted for a criminal offense, or is committed to jail on a charge thereof by a trial ch. 137 § 1. justice or judge of a police or municipal court, any judge of the court, before which he is to be tried, Insane crimi nals: when jail; investi committed to gation of in sanity. when a plea of insanity is made in court, or he is notified that it will be made, may, in vacation or term time, * Pl. 34. order such person into the care of the superintendent of the insane hospital, to be detained and observed by him till the further order of the court, that the truth or falsity of the plea may be ascertained. Ibid § 2, as amended court. 43. When the grand jury omits to find an indictment against any person arrested by legal process to answer for any offense by reason of his insanity, they shall certify that fact to the court; and when a traverse jury, for the same reason, acquits any person indicted, they shall state that fact to the court when they return their verdict; and the court, by a precept stating the fact of insanity, may commit him to the insane department of the state prison or to the insane hospital; and any person so committed to the insane department of the state prison shall be discharged by the court having jurisdiction of the case only on satisfactory proof that his discharge will not endanger the peace and safety of the community; and when on satisfactory proof such person so discharged from the insane department of the state prison is again found commitment. insane and dangerous, any judge of the supreme judicial court may, by a precept stating the fact of his insanity, recommit him to the insane department of the state prison, or to the insane hospital. Powers of court. How such person may be discharged from such Ibid $3, $ 2. Person so committed may be discharged or entrusted to friends. on ap 44. Any person so committed to the insane hospital, may be discharged by any judge of the supreme judicial 1879, ch. 160, court, in term time or vacation, on satisfactory proof that his discharge will not endanger the peace and safety of the community; or the judge may, plication, commit him to the custody of any friend, who gives bond to the judge of probate for the county of Kennebec, with sufficient sureties, approved by said judge of probate, conditioned for the safe keeping of such insane person, and the payment of all damages which any person may sustain by his acts. And when, on satisfactory proof, he is again found insane, and dangerous, any judge of the supreme judicial court may, by a precept stating the fact of his insanity, recommit him to the insane hospital. 45. The person so committed shall be there supported at his own expense, if he has sufficient means; otherwise ed at hospital. at the expense of the state. Ibid § 4. How support as amended When an instate prison 1877, ch. 188. mate of the or county jail becomes insane, proceed 46. When an inmate of the state prison or county jail becomes insane, the warden or jailer shall notify the Ibid $ 5, governor of the fact, and he, with advice of council, shall appoint a commission of two or more skilful physicians to investigate the case, and if such inmate is found insane by their examination, he shall be sent to the insane hospital until he becomes of sound mind; and if this takes place before the expiration of his sentence, he shall be returned to prison; but if after, he shall be discharged free. The expenses of the commission, removal, and support, shall be paid by the state. ings. ch. 160, § 3. victs in the 47. The convicts insane now in the insane hospital upon satisfactory proof that the said persons insane are incurable, and that a longer residence therein will have a deleterious influence on the other patients of said hospital, may be removed by order of the governor and council to the insane department of the state prison. Act of 1879. Insane con hospital being may be reinsane de incurable moved to the partment of state prison. MARYLAND. GOVERNMENT OF ASYLUMS. 1. Board of managers, apppointment, 2. Property vested in managers. 7. Managers may hold property in trust. 8. Reports of managers and trustees. 9. Number of indigent insane allowed. 10. Number of private patients allowed. 11. Indigent insane, power of judges to commit. 12. Appropriation, annual. 13. Powers and duties of managers defined. ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE. 14. Examination; jury trial; commitment; support, liability for. R. C. 1878, art. 26, § 1. Nine manag ers appointed by the gov ernor; term of office. 15. Indigent insane transferred from CRIMINAL INSANE. 19. Insane convicts transferred to asy- 22. Examination and commitment be- 23. Examination during vacation of court. 24. Foregoing provisions apply to all persons arrested. 1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint nine persons of undoubted character, and selected with a view to skill and efficiency, managers of the Maryland hospital for the insane, who shall serve without pay, and hold their offices as follows: three thereof shall hold their offices for two years; three thereof shall hold their offices for four years; and three thereof shall hold their offices for six years; and the governor shall designate their several terms at the time of their appointment; their successors shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Term of office. senate, and shall hold their offices for six years, and until others are appointed in their stead. 2. The president and visitors of the Maryland hospital are Ibid § 2. Transfer of property of Maryland hospital to said managers. hereby authorized and directed to transfer by deed all the real estate and other property belonging to said trust, which may be in their possession, to the managers of the Maryland hospital for the insane, |