CALIFORNIA. GOVERMENT OF ASYLUMS. 1. Enumeration of officers. 2. Reports to be made every second year. 3. Number of copies to be printed. 4. Distribution of reports. 5. Superintendents of asylums may attend eastern meetings. STOCKTON ASYLUM. 6. Appointment of directors. 7. Their term of office. 8. Vacancy in board of directors. 9. Government of asylum at Stockton vested in directors. 10. Powers and duties of directors. 11. Warrants for support, how drawn. 12. Directors must contract for supplies. 13. Compensation of directors; not to be interested in contracts. 14. Superintendent, his qualifications. 15. His term of office. 16. His powers and duties. 17. Estimate of expenses. 18. Superintendent's salary. 19. His official bond. 20. Assistant physicians' qualifications. 21. Their term of office. 22. Their powers and duties. 23. When to act as superintendent. 24. Their salaries. 25. Treasurer not to be a director. 26. His term of office. 27. To be secretary; duties. 28. His salary. 29. His official bond. 30. All salaries paid monthly. 31. Bonds to be approved by directors. 32. Physicians must reside in asylum. 33. Must not engage in private practice. NAPA ASYLUM. 34. Establishment of Napa asylum. 37. Board of directors for construction of asylum to vacate office. 38. To transfer effects to trustees. 39. Trustees to complete asylum. 40. Not to be interested in contracts. 41. Corporate powers, general powers and duties. 42. Resident and assistant physicians, appointment, qualifications, salaries and residence. 43. Treasurer, bond, duties, shall act as secretary. 44. Trustees, compensation of. 45. Resident physician, his powers and duties. 46. Reports to be made monthly. 47. Pay-roll to be made monthly. 48. Bills, how audited and paid. 49. Treasurer to report. 50. Treasurer's accounts to be audited. 51. Liquor not to be sold near Napa. 52. Illegal acts of officers, how prosecuted. ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE. 53. Who may be admitted. 54. Arrest of insane. 55. Subpoena of witnesses. 56. Physicians to attend examination. 57. Witnesses to appear and answer. 58. Physicians to make personal examination. 59. Physicians' certificate. 60. Certificate in form prescribed. 61. Order for commitment; filed with county clerk. 62. Commitment to officer of asylum. 63. Money found on insane persons, how disposed of. 64. Idiocy and delirium tremens, cases of, not admitted to Stockton. 65. Expenses of delivery, how paid. 66. Physicians' fees. 67. Examination for admission, physicians' certificate and fees, commitment, expenses of. 68. Idiocy and delirium tremens, cases of not admitted to Napa. 69. Support, private patients liable for. 70. Support, relations of indigent insane liable for. 71. Bonds, breach of how prosecuted. 72. Unexpended moneys refunded. 73. Money found on insane persons how disposed of. 74. Contingent fund for Napa asylum. 75. Removal of patient by friends. 76. Non-residents temporarily sup ported. 77. Transfer of patients. CRIMINAL INSANE. 80. Non-liability of insane to law. thereon. 84. Bail, exoneration of, on commitment. of 1876, § 343. Directors of. 85. Criminal becoming sane returned to custody. 86. Expenses, how borne. 87. Insane convicts transferred to asylum, and becoming sane returned to custody. 88. Insane convicts received in asylum. 89. Judgment of death, trial of insanity after. 90. Duties of district attorney in such cases. 91. Certificate of inquisition filed. 1. The number and designation of the civil executive officers Hittell's Codes are as follows: ** * * five directors for the insane asylum at Stockton; five directors for the insane asylum at Napa; a medical superintendent of the insane asylum at Stockton; two assistant physicians of the insane asylum at Stockton; a resident physician of the insane asylum at Napa; one first assistant physician of the insane asylum at Napa; provided, when the number of patients shall increase to six hundred, the trustees may elect one aditional second assistant physician, with the same pay and emoluments as the first assistant physician; a treasurer of the insane asylum at Stockton; a treasurer of the insane asylum at Napa; 2. All officers, boards of officers, commissioners, trustees, regents, and directors, required by law to make Officers when reports to the governor or legislature, * * * must send such reports to the governor before the first day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and in every second year thereafter. 3. There must be printed § 352. § 334. Copies of re printed. * * * * * of the report of the directors, resident physician, visiting physicians of * * port to be the insane asylum, twenty-five hundred copies; *** 4. The reports must be delivered by the superintendent of state printing, as follows: * to the officers of reports. of each of the insane asylums, five hundred copies of their report. § 335. Distribution Act of 1878, 767. 5. The superintendent of the state insane asylum, at Stockton, or one of his assistants, may attend the Superintend- annual meetings of the superintendents of the eastern meet American Institutions for the Insane, and the ings. expenses, not to exceed four hundred dollars per annum, must be audited and allowed by the board of exam ents to attend iners, and paid out of the state treasury. The resident physician of the Napa state asylum for the insane, or one of his assistants, may also attend such annual meetings, and the expenses, not to exceed four hundred dollars per annum, shall also be audited by the board of examiners, and paid out of the state treasury; provided,,that the medical superintendent, or one of his assistants, of the Stockton asylum, may attend said meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and the resident physician, or one of his assistants, of the Napa asylum may attend said meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and thereafter the said physicians shall attend said meeting alternately. * * $368. * second (preced 6. The following executive officers are appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate: ** 2. The directors of the insane asylum. 7. The officers mentioned in the * * ing) subdivision for the term of four years, 8. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the board of directors of the insane asylum holds only for unexpired term of his predecessor. * * * $369. the $100. Vacancy in board of directors. Location and 9. The insane asylum, located at Stockton, is under the management and control of a board of directors, consisting of five persons appointed and holding control of asytheir offices as provided in tit. 1, part 3, of this lum. code. (See ante, pl. 1, 6.) 10. The powers and duties of the board of directors of the insane asylum are as follows: § 2137, as of directors. (1) To make by-laws, not inconsistent with the amended 1883, laws of the state, for their own government, and the government of the asylum. (2) To hold stated meetings at the asylum for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month. (3) To keep a record of their proceedings, open at all times to the inspection of any citizen. (4) To elect a medical superintendent, two assistant physicians, and a treasurer. (5) To provide on the asylum grounds suitable apartments, furniture, provisions, and lights for the medical superintendent and his family; and to allow a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per month to each of the assistant physicians for the subsistence of themselves and their families. (6) To make diligent inquiry into the departments of labor and expense, the condition of the asylum, and its property. (7) To report to the governor a statement of the receipts and expenditures, the condition of the asylum, the number of patients under treatment, and of such other matters touching the duties of the board as is advisable. $2138. Moneys for support, how 11. If the board approve the estimates made under the provisions of section 2153 [pl. 17], it must notify the controller of state, who must draw his warrant for drawn. the amount estimated in three equal sums out of any moneys in the state treasury appropriated for the use of the asylum. § 2139. Directors to contract for supplies. 12. Upon the receipt of each report provided for in subdivision 5 of section 2152 [pl. 16], the board of directors must advertise for contracts for furnishing the supplies therein specified, for three successive weeks, in one newspaper in each of the cities of Stockton, Sacramento, and San Francisco. The contract must be awarded to the lowest bidder, upon his giving satisfactory security for the faithful performance of the same. $2140, by act 1878, 45. of directors. 13. The directors shall not be directly or indirectly interested in any contract or contracts for supplies furas amended nished said asylum, but shall receive, as their comCompensation pensation, the sum of ten dollars per day for their services in attending monthly or called meetings of said board, and such mileage as is provided by law for members of the legislature of this state, payable out of any moneys set apart by law for the use and benefit of said asylum, as other bills and accounts against the asylum are paid; provided, the amount so received as per diem compensation for services shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and forty dollars per year to each director. 14. The medical superintendent must be a graduate in medicine, and must have practiced his profession perintendent. five years after the date of his diploma. § 2150. Medical su 15. His term of office is four years from and after his § 2151. Term of office. election. 16. He is the chief executive officer of the asylum, with § 2152. Powers. powers and duties as follows: (1.) To control the patients, prescribe the treatment, and prescribe and enforce the sanitary regulations of the asylum. (2.) With the consent of the board of directors, to fix the number and compensation of, and appoint, control, and remove the attendants and assistants. (3.) To prescribe and enforce the performance of the duties of the attendants and assistants. (4.) To prescribe and enforce the performance of the duties of the assistant physicians. (5) To ascertain and report to the board of directors the amount, character, and quality of provisions, fuel, and clothing required for the six months ending on the first of May and November in each year. (6) With the consent of the board of directors to make any expenditure necessary in the performance of his duties, except for provisions, fuel and clothing. (7) To receive and pay to the treasurer all moneys found upon insane persons. (8) To keep a daily record of his official acts in the mode prescribed by the by-laws. (9) To make up his annual accounts to the first of July in each year, and as soon thereafter as possible to report a statement thereof, and of the general condition of the asylum, to the board of directors. must estimate 17. He must estimate, quarterly, in advance, the probable expenses of the asylum, and submit such estimate $2153. Supt. to the directors, at their stated meetings, for their consideration and approval. expenses and report to directors. 18. The annual salary of the medical superintendent is thirty-five hundred dollars. § 2154. Salary of med. supt. 19. He must execute an official bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars. § 2155. Bond of med. supt. 20. The assistant physicians must be graduates in medicine. § 2165. Assist, phys. § 2166. 21. Their term of office is four years from and after their appointment. 22. They must perform the duties and exercise the powers prescribed by the medical superintendent or the by- $ 2167. laws. Assist. phys. duties 23. During the absence or disability of the medical superin |