nation of wit nesses. Oaths, exami- person or persons in relation to any matters connected with the inquiries authorized by this act. 8. The said commissioners, or some, or any one of them, shall attend upon the session of the legislature, whenever any committee of either house shall require their attendance. Ibid § 11. Attendance upon legislature. Ibid § 13. tion, travel 9. The said commissioners shall receive no compensation for their time or services; but the actual expenses No compensa- of each one of them, while engaged in the performing expenses. ance of the duties of their office, and any actual outlay for any actual aid and assistance required in examinations and investigations, on being made out and verified by the affidavit of the commissioners making the charge, and approved by the governor, shall be paid quarterly by the treasurer on the warrant of the auditor of public accounts, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the clerk of the board shall be paid in like manner. 10. No member of the said board of commissioners shall be, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract for building, repairing or furnishing any of the institutions which, by this act, they are authorized to visit and inspect; nor shall any trustee or other officer of any of the institutions embraced in this act be eligible to the office of commissioner, hereby created. Ibid § 14. Not to be interested in contracts, eligibility. 11. The state institutions hereinafter named, are hereby recognized and continued, and they shall hereafter be known and designated by their respective titles, as expressed in this section namely:* Ibid § 19. Charitable institutions. * The bill revising the law in relation to the state institutions prepared by the commissioners of revision failed to pass. The act "to regulate the state charitable institutions and the state reform school," etc., approved April 15, 1875, is a partial attempt at a revision of the law regulating the institutions mentioned in it, but does not embrace all the state institutions which might properly come within its title. As the existing laws relating to these institutions are voluminous and somewhat confused, it is thought best to omit them from this volume, simply giving references showing where they may be found. In some cases the same act refers to several institutions. Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane (at Jacksonville), L. 1847, p. 52; L. 1849, p. 93; L. 1851, p. 96; L. 1853, p. 241; L. 1857, p. 84; L. 1865, p. 85. Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane (at Elgin), L. 1869, p. 24. Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane (at Anna), L. 1869, p. 19; L. 1871-2, p. 274; L. 1873, p. 103. Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, L. 1877; Legal News ed., p., 50. The Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, at Jacksonville. Powers of the 12. The trustees of each of the said state institutions shall be a body corporate and politic, for certain purposes, Ibid $ 20. namely: to receive, hold, use and convey or dis- trustees. burse moneys and other property, real and personal, in the name of said corporations, but in trust and for the use and by the authority of the state of Illinois, and to control, manage and direct the several trusts committed to them respectively, including the organization, government and discipline of all officers, employes and other inmates of said institutions, with power to make contracts, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to have and to use a common seal and to alter the same at pleasure, and to exercise all other powers usually belonging and incident to such corporations, and necessary for the successful discharge of the obligations devolving by law upon said boards of trust; provided, that they shall not have power to bind the state by any contract beyond the amount of the appropriations which may at the time have been made for the purposes expressed in the contract, nor to sell or convey any part of the real estate belonging to their respective institutions without the consent of the legislature, except that they may release any mortgage or convey any real estate which may be held by them as security for any money or upon any trust the terms of which authorize such conveyance; and provided, further, that the general assembly shall have power, at any time to amend, alter, revoke or annul the grant of corporate powers herein contained or heretofore expressed in any and all charters previously granted to any of said institutions. 13. The object of the hospitals for the insane shall be to receive and care for all insane or distracted persons residing in the state of Illinois, who may be committed to their care in accordance with law, and to furnish all needed medical treatment, seclusion, rest, restraint, attendance, amusement, occupation, and support, which may tend to restore their health and recover them from insanity, or to alleviate their suffering; provided, that the trustees shall have power to discharge patients and to refuse additional ap bid $ 21. admission to the insane. Object of and hospitals for plications for admission to the hospitals under their care, whenever, in their judgment, the interests of the insane demand such discharge or refusal, and that in the admission and retention of patients, curable and recent cases shall have the preference over cases of long standing, and that violent, dangerous or otherwise troublesome cases shall have the preference over these of an opposite description. Ibid § 25. Appointment and term of office of trustees. 14. The management of each of the state charitable institutions * * * shall be vested in a board of three trustees, to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and to be divided into three classes, and one class appointed every two years, to serve for six years from the first of March in each year bearing an odd number, as follows: upon the taking effect of this act three trustees shall be appointed for each charitable institution, * * of whom one-third shall serve until the first of March, A. D., 1877, one-third shall serve until the first of March, 1879, and one-third shall serve until the first of March, 1881, as may be determined by lot: and their successors, respectively, shall serve for six years each, and in every case a trustee shall hold his office until his successor is appointed and qualified; provided, that not more than one trustee for the same institution shall be appointed from or reside in any one county, and that no person shall be appointed or serve as trustee of more than one institution at one and the same time; and provided further, that no superintendent or employe of any of said institutions shall be trustee thereof. 15. The governor shall have power to remove any trustee for inefficiency or other good and sufficient cause; Removal of and every vacancy occurring from death, removal, or otherwise, shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as prescribed in the seventh section of this act, but if the senate be not in session when such vacancy occurs, the governor shall fill such vacancy, subject, however, to the approval of the senate at its next regular session. Ibid § 26. trustees. 16. Every person appointed as trustee of any state insti Ibid § 27. Trustees to take an oath. tution shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath prescribed in the twenty-fifth section of the fifth article of the con stitution of the state of Illinois, which oath shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. Ibid $ 28. Further pow of trustees; sup't. 17. Each of the boards of trustees appointed in accordance with the provisions of this act shall have charge of the general interests of the institution committed to its care, and shall have the power to appoint such officers and other agents, not herein otherwise provided for, as may be needed for the successful management thereof, to define their duties, to fix their compensation, to remove and discharge them whenever, in their judgment, the welfare of the institution demands, and to make all necessary by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the institution and its inmates; provided, that no person shall be appointed superintendent of either of the hospitals for the insane, * * * who is not an educated and competent physician. Compensation 18. The trustees shall receive no compensation for their services; but the actual expenses of each of them, bid § 29. while engaged in the performance of the duties of of trustees. his office, shall be audited by the board and paid out of the funds of the institution. bid $ 30. duty of super Power and intendent. 19. The principal executive officer of each of the state charitable institutions shall be officially known and designated as the superintendent of said institution. He shall be the financial agent of the trustees, and shall have charge of the premises, property and inmates, subject to their direction. He shall, with the consent of the trustees, appoint all subordinate officers and employes, and assign them their respective duties, and may at any time discharge them from service. He shall see that all officers, agents and employes of the institution faithfully discharge their duties, and shall be directly responsible to the trustees for the economy, efficiency and success of the internal management. In all institutions which furnish board to the inmates, the superintendent shall reside in the institution. Ibid 20. The trustees of each of the state institutions shall appoint one of their own number to be president of the board and shall appoint some person not a member of the board to be treasurer of the institu mid $ 31. board of trus tees. tion. They shall also appoint such person as they may select to be their secretary. Ibid § 32. bond. 21. The treasurer and superintendent, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall each give bond paysupt to give able to the people of the state of Illinois, in such amount and with such sureties, not less than two, as shall be approved by the trustees and by the governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office, which bond shall be filed in the office of the state commissioners of public charities, at Springfield. Ibid $33. 22. The books and papers of the treasurer shall be open at all times to the inspection of any of the trustees of Books and pa- his institution, officers of state, members of the general assembly, or the state commissioners of public pers liable to inspection. charities. Duty of treasurer, fund, vouchers, accounts. 23. The treasurer shall receive and be the custodian of all Ibid § 34. moneys due or belonging to the institution, whether derived from the state treasury or from other sources, and the superintendent, or any other officer into whose hands any moneys rightfully belonging to the institution may chance to come, shall pay over all such moneys in full to the treasurer, at least once in every month. The treasurer shall not pay out any of the funds of the institution except on proper vouchers, namely on the order of the board of trustees by such agent as the board may appoint, and the original orders upon which said funds are paid out shall be returned from time to time to the trustees, to be filed in the office of the institution and there permanently preserved, and the president of the board shall give his receipt to the treasurer for said orders when returned, showing in detail their numbers and amounts, which receipt shall be a final clearance of the treasurer from all further responsibility for said moneys so paid. The treasurer shall keep an itemized account, in a substantially bound book, showing, under appropriate heads, all the receipts and disbursements, in detail, with the date when and the parties from or to whom the same were received or paid, and also the current number of the order of the trustees upon which each cash payment is made. 24. The trustees shall hold regular stated meetings of the board, at the institution, at least as often as once in every three months, at such times as they may appoint, and called meetings at the request of any one Ibid § 35 Meetings of trustees, inspection of institution. |