Ibid § 15. 17. If the overseers neglect to make such order in relation to any insane county pauper, the supreme court, or ers, how com any two judges thereof in vacation, may order such pauper to be committed to the asylum, and there supported at the expense of the county. mitted. Ibid § 17. Parents, guardians, etc., may 18. The parent, guardian, or friends of any insane person may cause him to be committed to the asylum, with the consent of the trustees, and there supported on commit: Con- such terms as they may agree; but the city of Concord shall not, in any case, be liable for the sup port or maintenance of any person committed to said asylum, except from said city. cord not to be liable. Ibid § 18. Certificate of two physicians re quired to 19. No person shall be committed to the asylum for the insane, except by the order of the court or the judge of probate, without the certificate of two reputable physicians that such person is insane, given after a commit. personal examination made within one week of the committal; and such certificate shall be accompanied by a certificate from a judge of the supreme court or court of probate, or mayor, or chairman of the selectmen, testifying to the genuineness of the signatures and the respectability of the signers. Ibid § 19. 20. Any insane person committed to the asylum by his parent, guardian, or friends, who has no means of shail support support and no relatives of sufficient ability chargeinsane person. able therewith, and no settlement in any town in this state, and who is in such condition that his discharge therefrom would be improper or unsafe, shall be supported by the county from which he was committed. 21. When the means of support of any inmate of the asylum shall fail or be withdrawn, the superintendent of Ibid § 20. When means counties to support. of support fail said asylum shall immediately cause notice in writing of that fact to be given to one of the county commissioners of the county from which such inmate was committed, and such county shall be liable and holden to pay to said asylum the expense of the support of such inmate from and after the service of such notice, and for ninety days next prior thereto. 22. The county paying the expense of the support of any inmate shall be entitled to recover the amount so Ibid § 21. County may paid of any town, county, or individual by law liable for the support of such inmate. recover ex penses paid. Discharge, 23. Any person committed to the asylum may be discharged by any three of the trustees or by any justice of the bid $ 22. supreme court, whenever the cause of commitment how effected. ceases or a further residence at the asylum is, in their opinion, not necessary; but any person so discharged who was under sentence of imprisonment at the time of his commitment, the period of which shall not have expired, shall be remanded to prison. Ibid § 23. visit asylum. and hear state tients. 24. Some one of the board of trustees of the asylum shall, without previous notice, visit that institution, at least twice every month, and give suitable opportunity to every patient therein who may desire it to make to him, in private, any statement such patient may wish to make; and, whenever in his opinion it may be deemed proper, he shall call to his aid two other members of said board, who shall, with him, make a further examination. of such patient and of the statements by him made. If, in their view, the cause of commitment no longer exists or a further residence at the asylum is not necessary, it shall be their duty to discharge such patient. Should they deem the treatment of any patient injudicious, they shall order such an immediate change of the same as to them seems proper; and, in case of failure to secure it, they shall at once summon a meeting of the whole board, whose duty it shall be to take such measures as the exigency of the case demands. Ibid § 24. Superintend stationery to transmit their ents to furnish 25. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to furnish stationery to any patient who may desire it, and transmit any letter such patient may address to the board of trustees, to such member as said board shall have designated to receive such correspondence, and all such letters shall be promptly transmitted without inspection. patients, and letters to trustees. 26. In the event of the sudden death of any patient in the asylum, a coroner's inquest shall be held, as Ibid $25. provided for by law in other cases. Inquest on patients suddenly deceased. 27. The sum of six thousand dollars is annually appropriated for the maintenance of indigent insane persons belonging to this state at the asylum, for such and so priation for in Ibid § 28. digent insane, and for li brary. many as the governor may from time to time approve; not less than two-thirds of which sum shall be applied annually to the support of private patients, exclusive of paupers maintained at public charge; and the sum of one hundred dollars is annually appropriated toward the support and increase of the library for the insane. Insanity, how determined. 28. Upon application of any relative or friend of any insane Ch. 186, § 1. person, or of the overseers of the poor of the town where he lives, made to the judge of probate for the county, that a guardian may be appointed over such person, the judge shall cause inquisition, with notice, to be made by three suitable persons by him appointed. Ibid § 2. Guardian for insane. 29. If, upon the return of such inquisition and due examination had, it is decreed that such person is insane, the judge shall appoint a guardian over him; but no such decree or appointment shall be made until he has been cited to appear and show cause against the same. Ibid § 5. Guardians of insane or 30. Every guardian of an insane person or spendthrift shall immediately upon his appointment give public notice thereof, in some newspaper circulated in the to give notice. vicinity, or in such newspaper as the judge shall direct, and in all cases post a notification thereof in the town where his ward resides. spendthrifts 31. If any insane person is confined in any jail, the supreme court may order him to be committed to the asylum, if they think it expedient. Ch. 10, § 13. Insane in jail to be committed. Ibid § 16. What inmates insane support 32. Any insane person committed to the asylum by order of the supreme court, such person having been charged of asylum for with an offense the punishment whereof as preed by state. scribed by law is death or confinement in the state prison, shall, during his confinement in the asylum for the insane, be supported therein at the expense of the state. Any insane person committed to the asylum by any court, except as herein provided, or by any judge of probate, shall be supported by the county from which he was committed. Ibid § 27. 33. The governor, with advice of the council, may remove to the asylum, to be there kept at the expense of Insane convicts re- the state, any person confined in the state prison prison to asylum. who is insane. moved from state NEW JERSEY. COUNCIL OF STATE CHARITIES AND 1. Commissioners, appointment. 3. Meetings, by-laws, powers; inspec- 4. To receive no compensation. 6. Delegates to attend national con- 7. Executive officers to keep records of patients, abstract submitted to clerk of council. 8. Annual report of council. TRENTON ASYLUM. 9. Managers, appointment, vacancies. 12. Treasurer need not be resident. MORRISTOWN ASYLUM. 14. Commissioners to locate and erect 15. Commissioners to become managers. 19. Apportionment of insane. 20. Adoption of rules for apportion ment. 21. Patients removed to Morristown asylum, how supported. 22. Support of such persons, to whom chargeable. 23. Managers may hold property in trust. 24. By-laws, appointment of officers, regulations for asylum. 25. Superintendent, powers and duties. 26. Exemption of officers from militia and jury service. 27. Records of board of managers. 28. Inspections of asylum by managers, reports. 29. Books and records exhibited to 31. Treasurer, powers of. 32. Actions for money due asylum. 34 Notice of completion of Morristown asylum; superintendent's circular. 35. Managers to receive no compensa tion. 36. Purchases to be made for cash, vouchers to be taken. 56. Transfer of insane paupers from almshouse to asylum. 57. Patients, when continued in asylum. 59. Commission of lunacy, appoint- 61. Overseers of the poor to furnish 62. Examination, and commitment. SUPPORT OF INSANE IN COUNTY ASY- 64. Support of indigent insane in coun- Act of 1883, 65. Insane paupers may be committed to county asylums. 66. Indigent insane may be committed to county asylum. 67. Private patients admitted to county asylums. 68. County asylums, rules for, appointment of officers. CRIMINAL INSANE. 69. Insane before indictment or on ac- 72. Discharge, on order of judge. COUNCIL OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. ch. 205, § 1. of commis sioners. Ibid § 2. Ibid § 3. Meetings, 1. The governor of the state shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, six suitable perAppointment sons, who shall constitute a council of state charities and correction, of which the governor of the state for the time being shall be president and a member ex-officio. 2. The persons first appointed shall serve for one, two, three, four, five, six years respectively, and all subsequent Term of office. appointments shall be for six years, except to fill vacancies which occur through death, resignation or removal. 3. The said council shall hold regular meetings quarterly at the state house, Trenton, and there or at such other powers. places as it may designate, as often as may be necessary; it shall keep a book of minutes, and shall make such rules and regulations as to its own proceedings as it may deem necessary; it may investigate the system of public charities and correctional institutions of the state, and examine into the condition and management of all prisons, penitentiaries, jails, reform schools or other places of correctional detention, whether state, county, township, city, town or borough, and the same as to all lunatic asylums, hospitals, infirmaries or other public institutions of charity or care, and persons therein detained, and recommend in writing, such changes and additional provisions as it may deem necessary or desirable for the economical and efficient administration of any one or all of them, which recommendations shall be laid before the officers, directors and overseers of such institutions. |