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NEBRASKA.

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS.

1. Creation of board of public lands and buildings.

2. Officers, accounts of.

3. Officers, reports of.

BOARD OF PUBLIC LANDS AND
BUILDINGS.

4. Powers of board.

5. Custody of building.

6. General management; disbursement of funds.

7. Examination of accounts. 8. Payment of accounts.

9. Investigation of charges against officers.

10. Schedule of state property required.

BOARD OF SUPPLIES OF STATE INSTI

TUTIONS.

11. Purchases and contracts to be advertised.

12. Board of supply; proposals. 13. Other supplies purchased under the direction of the board.

14. Advertisements.

GOVERNMENT OF ASYLUMS.

15. Location and title; government vested in trustees.

16. Trustees, powers and duties; inspection of asylum.

17. Steward and matron; resident offi

cers.

18. Trustees to hold property in trust. 19. Records and reports of trustees. 20. Officers not to be interested in purchase of supplies.

21. Superintendent and assistant physician, appointment, term of office. 22. Superintendent, qualification, powers and duties.

23. Official seal; reports of superintendent.

24. Assistant physicians, qualifications, salaries.

25. Steward, powers and duties. 26. Matron, powers and duties. 27. Seal to be affixed to official papers.

28. Chaplain how appointed. 29. Superintendent's, salary. 30. Bonds of officers.

ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE.

31. Commissioners of insanity, appointment, qualifications, term of office. 32. Oath of office, organization. 33. Clerk of board, duties. 34. Commissioners to have cognizance of applications for admission; judical powers.

35. Applications for admission, con

tents.

36. Examination, physician's certifi

cate.

37. Commitment to asylum; warrant, superintendant's receipt; female attendants; warrant directed to relatives on request. Settlement of patient, investigation of, notice to proper county. Support, expenses borne by county of settlement.

38.

39.

40. Reimbursement by proper county. 41. Support, expenses borne by state when settlement is unascertained; removal of such patient in discretion of trustees.

42. Impartial treatment of all patients, special care on agreement. 43. Support, may be borne by relatives. 44. Temporary support by commisioners, pending admission; indigent and private patients, care of. 45. Support of insane out of hospital. 46. Commissioners to provide for patients suffering for want of care. 47. Restraint of alleged insane, to be only by authority of law. 48. Cruelty to insane, penalties. 49. Transfer of indigent patients to asylum.

50. Interrogatories on application for admission.

51. Preferences for admission. 52. Discharge of persons alleged to be sane, commission of lunacy. 53. Renewal of application for commission.

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Art. 5, § 19.

lic lands and

buildings.

66. Superintendent when shielded from prosecution.

67. Definition of" insane" and "idiot;"
idiots to be cared for by county.
68. Blanks supplied to commissioners.
69. Non-residents may be admitted as
private patients.

70. Correspondence of patients.
71. Penalties for violation.

72. Copies of act to be displayed in
every ward of asylum.

CRIMINAL INSANE.

73. Non-accountability to law; suspension of judgment after conviction; stay of execution after sentence, investigation by jury.

74. Insane convict sentenced to death, jury summoned.

75. Inquest, stay of execution

76. Finding transmitted to governor.

1. The commissioner of public lands and buildings, the Constitution. Secretary of state, treasurer and attorney - general, Board of pub- shall form a board, which shall have general supervision and control of all the buildings, grounds and lands of the state, state prison, asylums and all other institutions thereof, except those for educational purposes; and shall perform such duties, and be subject to such rules and regulations, as may be prescribed by law.

Accounts of

2. An account shall be kept by the officers of the executive Ibid § 21. department, and of all the public institutions of the public officers. state, of all moneys received or disbursed by them severally from all sources, and for every service performed, and a semi-annual report thereof be made to the governor, under oath, and any officer who makes a false report shall be guilty of perjury, and punished accordingly.

Ibid § 22. Reports to governor.

3. The officers of the executive department and of all the public institutions of the state, shall, at least ten days preceding each regular session of the legisla ture, severally report to the governor, who shall transmit such reports to the legislature, together with the reports of the judges of the supreme court, of defects in the constitution and laws, and the governor, or either house of the legislature, may, at any time, require information in writing, under oath from the officers of the executive department, and all officers and managers of state institutions, upon any subject relating to

the condition, management and expenses of their respective officers.

ch. 83, art. 7,

§ 1.

Officers.

4. The board created by section 19 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Nebraska, consisting of com- G. 8. 1881, missioners of public lands and buildings, the secretary of state, treasurer, and attorney-general of state, shall hereafter be known in law as the "Board of Public Lands and Buildings of the state of Nebraska," and shall have general supervision and control of all the public lands, lots, and grounds, and all institutions, buildings, and the grounds thereto, now owned or that may hereafter be acquired by the state, including the state hospital for the insane and

grounds.

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Custody of

5. The board shall have general custody and charge of all buildings and institutions and the grounds thereto bid § 3. coming under the provisions of this act, and shall be buildings. responsible for the proper keeping and repair of the same, and shall require from the commissioner of public lands and buildings who shall be direct custodian of such institutions, buildings and grounds, a report, at least once in every three months, as to the condition of the same; provided, that no additions shall be made to any public buildings without special appropriation of the legislature.

bid § 4.

Disbursement

6. The said board shall have power, under the restrictions of this act, to direct the general management of all the said institutions and be responsible for the proper of funds. disbursement of the funds appropriated for their maintenance, and shall have reviewing power over the acts of the officers of such institutions, and shall, on the part of the state, at regular meetings as hereinafter directed, audit all accounts of such officers including the accounts of the commissioner of public lands and buildings, except his salary.

Accounts of

7. At the regular meeting of the board it shall be their duty to examine the accounts of the public officers con- Ibid § 5. templated in this act and to determine whether the officers. same are entitled to be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the purpose of maintaining the institutions for which they are charged, and if correct, shall approve the same, which approval shall be signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary under date of such action; and if the accounts

be incorrect, exorbitant, or not entitled to payment from such appropriations, the same shall be disapproved and returned to the claimant, such board keeping a record of the same.

Ibid § 6.
Payment of

accounts.

8. When the accounts above mentioned have been filed with the board, and shall have been audited and approved by them, the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and directed, upon the presentation to him of such accounts so authenticated, to issue his warrant on the treasurer against the proper fund or appropriation, for the amount therein stated, to the claimant or his assignee. And no accounts coming under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to payment until they have been so approved by the said board.

Ibid $7.

Charges

9. It shall be the duty of the board to take cognizance of all charges or complaints made against the said public against officers. officers, and at a regular meeting, to give an impartial hearing to such charges, and the defense against them, if any, and report the charges, evidence, and their conclusions in the matter, to the governor, within six days after the determination of such investigation.

Ibid § 15.
Schedule of

state
property.

10. The board shall require the several officers in charge of the institutions and buildings of the state, coming under the provisions hereof, to make out a correct schedule of all property in their charge belonging to the state, to be certified under oath, which shall be filed with the secretary of the board, and a copy thereof furnished to the commissioner of public lands and buildings, together with a list of buildings and grounds.

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11. All purchases and contracts for supplies for any of the Ch. 83, art. 12, departments and public institutions of the state, where Proposals. the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, shall be by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals for supplying the same.

Board of sup

12. At least one month previous to the first day of January, Ibid § 2. April, July and October, respectively in each year, ply proposals. a board consisting of the governor, commissioner of public lands and buildings, secretary of state, treasurer and attorney-general, shall meet with the warden of the state prison, and the superintendent of each of the asylums or other institutions furnished by the state, and determine the supplies that

may be necessary for three months, except articles as may be perishable and cannot be kept. Said board shall designate clearly the quantity and quality of the articles, and shall then advertise for ten days in some newspaper published at the capital, having general circulation in the state, before the first day of January, April, July and October respectively, for proposals for furnishing said articles and for each institution separately, to be delivered at the institution within. ten days after the first day of the months aforesaid; provided, that the board may permit the delivery of the goods monthly, if in their judgment it be deemed best. And the bids which propose to furnish the supplies for either institution at the lowest rate, shall be received for such institution; provided further, that no proposal shall be considered by said board unless the same is accompanied by a bond with such security as the board shall determine, with condition to furnish said articles as proposed in said bid.

13. All supplies for such institutions not purchased as provided in this act, shall be purchased in such manner bid § 3. as shall be directed by said board by written plies. instruction.

Other sup

14. The head of each of the executive departments respectively shall advertise for proposals for supplying bid $4. the departments in accordance with the provisions.

of this act.

Advertisement.

Ch. 40, § 1.

15. The hospital for the insane, located at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster, shall be known under the name and by the title of the "Nebraska Hospital for the Insane," and shall be under the charge of three trustees, two of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Location of control vested

hospital; title;

in trustees.

Powers of

16. The trustees shall have the general control and management of the hospital; they shall have full power to bid § 5. make all by-laws necessary for the government of trustees. the same, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, and to conduct the affairs of the institution in accordance with the laws and by-laws regulating the same. It shall be the duty of the majority of said board to visit the hospital quarterly, and at said quarterly visits they shall, with the superintendent, examine the accounts of the steward, and

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