he was originally committed, absconds from the asylum or from a person having him in charge, shall be subject to the same penalty as prisoners escaping from the state prison or house of correction.

the

§ 4410.
When insane

at end of

sentence.

84. A prisoner who at the expiration of his term of confinement remains insane, may be removed to insane asylum at Brattleboro agreeably to the provisions of this chapter and may be there kept, or if already there, may remain, at the expense of the state, at the same price allowed for insane paupers of towns, until his legal settlement is ascertained or until some relative is ordered by the proper court to furnish his maintenance.

Settlement;

85. For the purpose of ascertaining such settlement or proceeding against such relatives, the overseer of a $4411. town where such prisoner has ever dwelt or stayed proceedings may proceed in court as if such prisoner on his to ascertain. discharge had come to reside in such town.

VIRGINIA.

ch. 82, § 1.

and location

1. Each lunatic asylum established in this state shall be under the management of the board of directors. Code of 1873, There shall be three asylums for the insane: the Management first to be located as at present at Williamsburg, of asylums. under the name of the eastern lunatic asylum; the second to be located as at present at Staunton, under the name of the western lunatic asylum; and the third to be located temporarily at Howard's grove, near the city of Richmond, under the name of the central lunatic asylum.

lum for colored lunatics.

2. The said central lunatic asylum shall be for the reception and treatment of colored persons of unsound mind, and the board of directors are hereby constituted Central asy and appointed, with their successors, a body politic and corporate, to have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, and may and shall have and use a common seal, and are authorized to take any estate, real or personal, given or to be given to said hospital, or to said directors for the use thereof, so as the annual income of such donations shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; and shall be invested with all the rights, powers and privileges conferred, and made subject to the rules, regulations and restrictions imposed by this chapter. The expenses of said asylum shall be provided for and paid in the same manner that the expenses of similar institutions in the commonwealth are now provided and paid.

Ibid $3.

as amended

$1

3. The boards of directors of the central, eastern, and western lunatic asylums shall consist of eleven members each, the term of office shall be for three years, commencing on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and continue until their successors are appointed. Six directors shall constitute a court for the transaction of business.

1882, ch. 133, Number of each asylum; quorum.

directors for

term of office;

Directors, how appointed.

4. The said directors shall be appointed and commissioned by the governor, who shall also fill all vacancies Ibid § 4. that may occur. 5. Each board shall annually choose one of their body to be president, and in his absence a president pro bid § 5. tempore. 6. Said boards of directors shall assemble upon the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, or as Ibid § 6,

President of the board.

as amended

1882, ch. 103, § 1.

Assembling,

organization

of sup❜t.

soon thereafter as possible, at the asylums for which they are appointed respectively, and shall elect and election superintendents, who shall be physicians, and may appoint executive committees and officers, nurses, and other attendants for their asylums, respectively, and prescribe their compensation, and generally reorganize said asylums, as to said boards may seem right and proper.

7. The fiscal year of each asylum shall end on the thirtieth day of September annually, and the directors and treasurer shall settle their accounts so as to conform thereto.

Ibid § 10. Fiscal year of each asylum.

Ibid § 11.

of directors to governor; what to be reported.

8. The board of each asylum shall, annually, before the first day of November, report to the governor, for Annual reports information of the general assembly, the condition of the asylum, and an account of all sums received and disbursed, with a list of the patients, designated by name or otherwise, in the asylum during the preceding year, showing their age and sex, place of residence and civil condition, the deaths and discharges, and condition when discharged, and any statistics and remarks as to the management of the insane and the subject of insanity which in their judgment may be useful.

9. No director of a lunatic asylum shall be personally interIbid § 56. ested in any contract in relation to the said asylum, or its support.

10. The directors of the western, eastern, and central lunatic

Act of 1876,

ch. 7, § 1. All asylums

shall deposit

to their credit in one or more

banks of the

state all

money appro

general as

asylums, and of any asylum or asylums, that may hereafter be established in this state, shall deposit to their credit in one or more of the banks in this state, all moneys received by appropriation of the general assembly, or from any other source-first taking priated by the from such bank or banks, bonds with good security, sembly. in a penalty double the amount likely to be deposited in such bank or banks within twelve months, payable to the commonwealth of Virginia, and conditioned for the preservation of the money that may be deposited, and the payment and disbursement thereof according to law; and it shall not How money so be lawful for the cashier or other officer of said bank be drawn, etc. or banks to pay out said money so deposited upon the order, draft or check of the directors making such deposit,

deposited can

except it be drawn and signed in such form as shall be prescribed to said bank or banks by the board of directors of such asylum; and it shall not be lawful for the said board of directors to give such order, draft or check, except for such amounts and at such times as may be necessary to meet the expenditures for the said asylums. And the board shall transmit to the auditor of public accounts, quarterly, a report in detail of the manner in which such funds have been disbursed. And the boards of directors of the said asylums shall dis- Office of treaspense with the office of treasurer for their respective pensed with. asylums.

urer dis

ch. 53.

11. Whereas, the lease of the central lunatic asylum for the colored insane of the state, will expire on the Act of 1877, thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and Preamble. seventy-nine, and it is deemed advisable that the general assembly at its present session should take steps for locating and constructing a permanent asylum for that class of insane persons; therefore,

ers to select

site for cen

tral lunatic

Resolved (the house of delegates concurring) that [nine persons named] be and they are hereby constituted a commissioncommission, any five of whom may act, whose duty it shall be forthwith to inquire for and ascertain the asylum. most eligible site for the location and construction of such asylum, having reference in their selection to any inducements that may be offered in the way of donations of grounds, buildings, or otherwise, and to report the result of their examinations and inquiries, with the facts tending general asto show the propriety thereof, to this general assembly on or before the first day of March next.

To make re

sembly.

ch.56, $6. 1879, ch. 61, authorized to

as amended

1.

Arbitrators

ascertain

12. If the president and directors of a company incorporated for work of internal improvement, the court of Code of 1873, a county, or the council of a town, the directors of the deaf and dumb and blind institution, of the western lunatic asylum, of the eastern lunatic asylum, and central lunatic asylum, cannot agree on the terms of purchase with those entitled to lands wanted for the purposes of the company, county, town, institution, or asylums aforesaid, five disinterested freeholders shall be appointed by the court of the county or corporation in which the land, or the greater part thereof, shall lie (any three

value of property.