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quire into

case of al

leged insanity.

pointed to in- mediately appoint a committee consisting of a physician and two other persons, one of whom shall be an attorney-at-law, judge, or justice of peace, who, after such person has been notified according to the order of such judge of the superior court, shall inquire into such complaint, and report to him the facts of the case and their opinions thereon; and if, in their opinion, such person should be confined, such judge shall issue an order therefor.

18. The judge before whom any of the proceedings provided

Ibid § 8.
Costs.

therefor.

Ibid § 10.
Confinement

insane per

sons.

Ibid § 11. Proceedings concerning in

going at large.

for in the preceding section are had, shall tax reasonable costs, at his discretion, and issue execution

19. If any dangerous insane person shall go at large, a justice of the peace and the first selectman of the town, of dangerous where he belongs or resides, on such certificate of a respectable physician of such town as is required in the sixth section of this chapter, shall order him to be confined in some suitable place; and if the person under whose care he shall be, or who is bound to support him, shall not confine him to such place and manner as they shall direct, they shall provide for his confinement and support in some suitable place. 20. When any insane person shall go at large in any town, any person may complain to any selectman or justice of the peace of said town, and if he do not, sane persons within three days thereafter, provide for the confinement of such insane person, agreeably to the preceding section, the complainant may complain in writing, under oath, to any justice of the peace in said town, informing him that such insane person is unfit to go at large; and such justice shall thereupon issue his warrant to any constable of such town, commanding him, forthwith, to bring such insane person before some justice of the peace residing in the same town, who upon finding that such insane person is unfit to go at large, may order him to be confined in some suitable place for such time as he shall deem proper; but he may, at any time thereafter, for just cause, order his discharge; and the superior court, on the petition of any person so confined, or of his relatives, to which petition the town where he belongs shall be made respondents, may make any proper order with respect to his future disposal. All expenses incurred under this and the

preceding section shall be paid out of the estate of such insane person, if he has any; if not, by his relatives liable by law to support him, if of sufficient ability; and if there be none such, then by the town to which he belongs.

21. The price for keeping any pauper or son shall be fixed by the trustees, and shall not exceed the sum of four dollars per week, and shall be payable quarterly.

indigent per

Tit. 8, ch. 4, § 8, as

amended by act of

1878, ch. 103, § 3.

Price for keeping indgent patients.

all

Ibid § 9,

as amended and act of 1879

by act of 1878

ch. 71, § 2. Support of insane paupers in hospital.

22. There shall be taxed monthly by the comptroller, one dollar and fifty cents for each week's board at said. hospital, and two dollars for each week's board at any other hospital or asylum for the insane, of insane paupers belonging to towns in this state committed in pursuance of the first section of this act, and two dollars for each week's board at said hospital and one-half of the expense of each week's board at any other hospital or asylum for the insane of all insane indigent persons committed in pursuance of this act; and the superintendents of each of said institutions shall make the bill therefor and present it to the governor, upon whose approval it shall be paid from the state treasury.

23. The selectmen of any town may contract in its behalf with the officers of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, for the support of any insane poor belonging to such town.

Tit. 3, ch. 3, part 2, § 2. May contract

for support of insane poor.

ch. 101, p. 452.

Towns may money paid for support

recover

24. Any sum paid by any town for the support of an insane person under the provisions of chapter 103, public Act of 1879, acts of 1878, or prior to the passage of said act, may be recovered by such town from such insane person, or out of his estate, in an action of assumpsit, and the statute of limitations shall not be pleaded against persons. any portion thereof.

insane

25. It shall be the duty of the governor to cause to be transferred from time to time, and it shall be the duty Act of 1977, . of the trustees of the Connecticut hospital for the ch. 147, § 4. insane from time to time to transfer from said hospital to the hospital at Mansfield, all cases of chronic insane paupers that are considered incurable, or not needing special medical treatment.

26. Persons in charge of any place of detention for the

Tit.8, ch. 5, §9. Discharge.

Tit. 20, ch. 13,

part 4.5 4. as

4, 4, amended by

act of '81, ch. 19, § 1.

Insane convicts, how

disposed of.

Overseer of such person.

Expenses of

his support.

insane may discharge persons placed therein, at their pleasure.

27. Any superior court, city court, or police court in this state, before which any person shall be tried on any criminal charge, and acquitted on the ground of insanity or dementia, may order such person to be confined in the Connecticut hospital for the insane for such time as such court shall direct, unless some person shall undertake before said court, and give bond to the state, conditioned to confine such person in such manner as such court shall order; and said court shall appoint an overseer to such person, if he have any estate, with the same powers and duties as conservators appointed by courts of probate, such overseer giving suitable bonds to the state, conditioned for the faithful performance of his trust; and if such person have no estate, and belongs to any town in this state, the expense of his confinement, support and treatment shall be paid by such town and the state, in the same manner as is by law provided in the case of pauper patients committed by courts of probate; and if such person have no estate and does not belong to any town in this state such expense shall be paid by the state. 28. The superior court of the county in which any person may be confined, who shall have been at any time heretofore tried on any criminal charge, and acquitted on the ground of insanity or dementia, may order him, or her, to be confined in the sanity may be Connecticut hospital for the insane, upon the same conditions, and under the same restrictions, as are herein before provided in the section to which this act is an amendment, in the case of persons who may hereafter be tried on any criminal charge, and acquitted on the ground of insanity or dementia.

Act of 1875,

ch. 43, in addition to § 4, supra, pl. 27. Criminals heretofore acquitted on ground of in

ordered to be

confined in

Conn. hosp. for insane.

Act of 1882, ch. 146, § 1.

29. Any person who has been tried on any criminal charge and acquitted on the ground of insanity or deDischarge of mentia, and confined in the Connecticut hospital for the insane, may petition, or the officers of said institution may petition, the superior court of the county in which he is confined for his enlargement, and the petition shall be served like civil process on the selectmen

insane criminals from asylum.

of the town to which he belongs, and said court shall make such order as to his disposal as it shall deem proper, and the state's attorney for such county shall appear and oppose such application, and if such person so confined shall be unable to defray the expenses of said petition, the court before which the same is heard may tax the expenses of such petition against the state as in criminal cases.

§ 1.

of supposed

insane or idi

otic prisoners committed by

a

30. Whenever any jailor or county commissioner shall be of the opinion that any person confined in jail Act '83, ch. 56, upon the commitment of a justice of the peace, Examination in any cause within the final jurisdiction of such justice, is insane or an idiot, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to appoint some reputable justice. physician to make an examination of such prisoner, and if such physician shall be of the opinion that such prisoner is insane or an idiot, he shall make and sign a certificate to that effect, and deliver the same to said commissioners. 31. Said commissioners, on the receipt of such certificate, may give notice in writing to the selectmen of the town where said prisoner belongs, that he has been found to be insane or an idiot and transmit to

Ibid § 2.

Disposal of

such insane

or idiotic

prisoner.

them a copy of such certificate, and said selectmen shall thereupon forthwith remove such prisoner from the jail and provide for him in some suitable place.

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