digent insane, and for library. 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. Ch. 186, § 1. Insanity, how 28. Upon application of any relative or friend of any insane person, or of the overseers of the poor of the town determined. 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. 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; inspection of charitable and correctional institutions. 4. To receive no compensation. 5. Appointment of committees to assist in inspection. 6. Delegates to attend national conference, reports, expenses. 7. Executive officers to keep records of patients, abstract submitted to clerk of council. 8, Annual report of council. 28. Inspections of asylum by managers, reports. 29. Books and records exhibited to 32. Actions for money due asylum. 34 Notice of completion of Morristown asylum; superintendent's circu lar. 35. Managers to receive no compensation. 36. Purchases to be made for cash, vouchers to be taken. 45. Patients applying for admission to be supplied with clothing. 46. Support of indigent insane, charges. 47. Support, liability for. 48. Clothing and supplies, expenses of, 49. Removal expenses, how borne. 54. Definition of terms. 55. Support of indigeat insane, borne in part by state. Act of 1853, ch. 205, § 1. of commis sioners. 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 Ibid § 2. Ibid § 3. Meetings, powers. the state house, Trenton, and there or at such other 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. Members to receive no compensation 4. The members of the said council, unless assigned to some special duties by the vote and special provi- bid $5. sion of said board, shall receive no compensation for their services, but their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid by the treasurer of the state when audited by the comptroller and certified by the governor. unless assign ed to special duties. persons to aid in inquiry. 5. Said council may appoint from their own number, or from any county in which such institution exists, not to exceed two persons, to aid them in inquiry May appoint into any county, township, city or town institution of charity or correction in said precincts, who shall, in such case, be duly authenticated by the certificate of said council, signed by the president thereof; no inspection of any state institution shall be had by any inspector appointed by this council outside of its own members. its own Ibid § 7. May appoint delegates to national con 6. The council may, each year, appoint one from number, and one from the officers of any correctional or charitable institution of this state, as a delegate to the annual meeting of the national confer- ference. ence of charities and correction; and it shall be their duty to make full report in writing for use by said council of charities and correction; and upon the auditing of said council and approval by the governor, the treasurer is authorized to pay their bill for actual expenses to an amount together not exceeding one hundred dollars. 7. The warden, physician, steward or other officer in charge of any institution of charities or correction in this state, whether state, county, township, city, town or borough, shall keep an exact register, in a form to be bid § 9. charge of any charities, ete. Officer in institution of to keep regis ter of name, age, etc. of prescribed by the council of charities and correction, in which he shall enter the name, age, sex, nationality, each person. orphanage or half orphanage, condition (whether married or single) of each person in his charge, and other facts throwing light upon the former heredity and history; also the dates of receipt and discharge, the time and authority of commitment, by whom committed and discharged, the cost of maintenance per day of each person, and the amount earned by each if employed in productive labor, and the hours of labor, with the amounts paid to or received from each; and on or before the first day of October of each year, as the council may direct, each state institution of charities and correction, and each county, township, city, town or borough shall send to the clerk of said council, at Trenton, an abstract of the same, for which the directors of any state charity or correctional institution may order payment, and for which each county, township, city or town governing board of any such local institution of charity or correction shall pay what they shall regard as adequate for the service rendered; said returns shall be uniform, on blanks furnished by the state, corresponding as nearly as possible with the books kept; and these facts shall be so studied and arranged by the council of charities and correction as may be necessary to aid in a knowledge of the cause of dependency, pauperism and crime. 10. the legis lature. 8. The council of charities and correction shall annually Annual report prepare and present for the use of the legislature a to be made to report of all their doings during the year, stating the expenses incurred, the names of officers and agents employed, and showing the actual condition of the institution into which they have, by inspection, by statistics or by correspondence, inquired, and make such suggestions as they may deem necessary; and the council shall either accompany or give full information to any legislative committee. that may from time to time be appointed to visit any such institutions. 1877, p. 607, 81. Managers, ed and vacan TRENTON ASYLUM. 9. [Ten persons who are named are appointed managers, two Revision of to go out of office every year], and they shall hold their office until others are appointed in their stead, how appoint subject to being removed by the supreme court, at cies filled. any time, upon the recommendation of the governor; their successors shall be appointed by the supreme court, at the January term, and shall hold their offices for five years and until others are appointed in their stead, and subject to be removed in the manner aforesaid; the supreme court, at any term, may fill vacancies in the board, but the person appointed to fill a vacancy shall only serve under such appointment for the unexpired time of the person whose place he is to supply. 10. The government of the state lunatic asylum shall be |