Ibid $ 11. cause report to be printed and distributed. 11. The secretary shall cause fifteen hundred copies of the reports of the superintendent, trustees, and board of visitors of the asylum to be printed and distributed, Secretary to one copy each, to the governor, members of the council, senate, and house, and their officers; one copy to the clerk of each town; and the remaining copies to be placed in the hands of the board of visitors, for distribution as they shall order and direct. Ch. 5. § 6. Reports to be furnished. 12. ***The report of the New Hampshire asylum for the insane *** shall be furnished the state printer on or before the first day of May; *** All of the said reports shall be printed, and the said reports for that and the preceding year shall be laid before the legislature during the first week of the session. *** The secretary of state shall reserve five hundred copies of the several annual reports, and cause the same to be bound, and, as soon as may be after their publication, shall send one copy to the clerk of each town, for the use of said town, one copy to each society and library entitled to receive a copy of the laws and journals, and deposit the balance in the state library. 13. The following persons are also exempted from military duty and shall not be included in said enrollment: that is to say *** the attendants upon the insane, employed in the asylum for the insane. * * * Ch. 95, § 4. Persons exempt from military duty. 14. The property of the asylum is exempted from tax ation. Ch. 10, § 26. Ibid § 12. Persons dan gerous to be committed to 15. If any insane person is in such condition as to render it dangerous that he should be at large, the judge of probate, upon petition by any person, and such notice to the selectmen of the town in which such in- asylum. sane person is or to the guardian or any other person, as he may order, which petition may be filed, notice issued, and a hearing had in vacation or otherwise,-may commit such insane person to the asylum. Ibid § 14. 16. Any insane pauper supported by any town may be committed to the asylum by order of the overseers of the poor, and there supported at the expense of Insane paup ers, how com mitted by such town; and such expense may be recovered by town. such town of the county, town, or person chargeable with the support of such pauper, in the same manner as if he had been supported in and by the town. 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. Parents, guardians, etc., may 18. The parent, guardian, or friends of any insane person Ibid § 17. 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 support or maintenance of any person committed to said asylum, except from said city. cord not to be liable. Ibid $ 18. 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 Certificate of 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. When county 20. Any insane person committed to the asylum by his parent, guardian, or friends, who has no means of shall 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. 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. ents to furnish stationery to patients, and transmit their 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 Superintend 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. 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 provided for by law in other cases. Ibid § 25. 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 spendthrifts 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. 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. 28. Inspections of asylum by managers, 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 circu lar. 35. Managers to receive no compensa tion. 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. |