WISCONSIN. STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AND REFORM. 1. Creation, term of office, vacancies. 2. Annual meetings. 3. Secretary, duties; other officers. 4. Inspections of asylums; board, when reorganized. 5. Necessary expenses refunded. 6. Powers and duties of board, annual report. 7. Facilities for examination to be afforded. 8. Transfer of insane soldiers to national asylum. STATE BOARD OF SUPERVISION. 9. Creation; to have the powers formerly exercised by boards of trustees. 10. Oath of office. 11. Term of office, vacancies. 12. Regular meetings. 13. Compensation of members. 14. To be commissioners of lunacy. 15. Powers of board. 16. Duties of board. 17. Secretary, duties. 18. Salaries and bonds of officers. 19. Steward, duties. 20. Monthly estimates. 21. Accounts of purchases. 22. Warrants, how drawn and paid. 23 Money for benefit of patient, disposition of. 24. Superintendent of asylums, duties, statistics. 25. Reports of asylums to board. 26. Inspection of asylums by board; visiting committee by legislature. 27. Annual report of board. 28. Annual statistics. 29. Laws applicable to board. 30. Appeals from decision of board. 31. Time in which appeal may be taken, notice. 32. Proceedings on appeal. 33. Costs borne by losing party. GOVERNMENT OF ASYLUMS. 34. Titles of asylums. 35. Superintendent, oath, duties, exemption from subpoenas. 36. Appropriation of land for use of public institutions, appointment of commission. 37. Oath of commissioners; notice to owner, how served. 38. View of lands, report, appeal. 39. State institutions to purchase each others manufactures. 40. Treasurer's bonds. 41. Officers of asylums to be a police force. 42. Decennial census of insane, duties of county clerk. 43. Cruelty to patients, penalty for. ADMISSION OF PATIENTS. 44. Counties entitled to patients in ratio of population; provisions for patients without settlement. 45. Settlement, how ascertained. 46. Error in accounts, how corrected. 47. Non-residents, removal. 48. Idiots not admitted. 49. Investigation, physician's report. 50. Commitment by judge. 51. Physician's report, additional state ment. 52. Rehearing, when allowed. 53. Proceedings on rehearing. 54. Discharge on proof of sanity. 55. Harmless imbeciles not admitted. 56. Circuit court to have powers of county court, proceedings filed. 57. Warrant of commitment, by whom executed. SUPPORT AND DISCHARGE. 58. Resident patients, support by state. 59. Clothing required for admitted patients. 60. Children born in hospital, disposi tion of. 61. Habeas corpus, proceedings on. 62. Discharge to care of friends; selection of patients for discharge. to county judge, execution of warrant. 64. Discharged patients supplied with clothing and money. 63. Notice of discharge 65. Recovery of charges for patients. COUNTY ASYLUMS. 69. Establishment, provisions for. 71. Plans and specifications. 74. Insane without settlement, regula- 75. Insane of other counties, when received. 76. Cost of buildings. 77. State to bear one-half of cost, limit of cost. 78. Cost of buildings, liability of county. 80. County asylums subject to laws 82. Chronic insane, expenses of support, 83. Insane cared for by county, certified 84. Removal to county asylums. 86. Counties not entitled to reimburse- 87. Laws for support of poor applicable to insane. 1. To secure the just, humane and economical administration of public charity and correction, there is constituted a state board of charities and reform com posed of five members. Their term of office, R. S. of 1878, ment of 1883, and Supple § 561. Members of of office; va board; term cancies. beginning with the first day of April in the year of appointment, shall be five years and until their respective successors are appointed, and they shall continue as at present arranged, so that the term of office of one member shall expire each year. The governor shall fill all vacancies. by appointment; but in case of a vacancy before the expiration of a term, the appointment shall be for the residue of such term only. All such appointments shall be confirmed by the senate. § 362. Meetings. 2. The board shall meet annually in April on or before the fifteenth day, and in January on or before the tenth day, and at such other times and at such places as may be fixed by their by-laws or otherwise appointed by them. § 563. Secretary; 3. The board shall appoint a qualified elector as secretary, whose term of office shall be three years, and until his duties. his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner discharged by the board. A certificate of appointment or discharge of any person as secretary shall be immediately filed by the board with the secretary of state. The duty of the secretary shall be to record all the transactions of the board and the proceedings of their meetings, to keep their books and papers, make such visits and perform such other duties as the board may prescribe. The board may appoint a president and other officers to serve without compensation, and fix their terms of office and prescribe their duties. § 563 a. Board to visit lums. others to make 4.* The ***** state board of charities and reform, or some member, or the secretary thereof, are hereby county as required to visit each county insane asylum in this state at least once in each three months during each and every year, and may also designate some suitable person May designate or persons to make visits thereto, whose expenses such visits. only may be audited and paid each year as herein provided to audit bills for clerical assistance, and out of the amount of money herein appropriated, and it is hereby made Board may be the duty of the governor to re-organize the said re-organized. state board of charities and reform whenever, in his opinion, to do so would increase its efficiency and harmony, and be beneficial to the interests of the people.* 5. Each member and the secretary shall have refunded to him all expenses actually and necessarily made in Necessary ex- the discharge of his official duty; and when the board shall have been specially directed in writing by the governor to make any investigation, each member shall receive five dollars for each day actually devoted to such duty. The amount of each account for such compensation or ex § 564. penses re funded. * Placita marked with a star will be found in the Supplement, which also contains a reference to all sections in the Revised Statutes. penses, stated in detail and verified by affidavit, the secretary's to be also approved by the president of the board, shall be audited by the secretary of state and paid out of the treasury. All stationery, blanks, printing, postage stamps, stamped envelopes and the like, necessary for the official use of the board or their secretary, shall be supplied to them in the same manner as to state officials. No other compensation whatever shall be paid any member of said board. 6. It shall be the duty of the board: Duties of state institu (1) To investigate and supervise all the charitable $65 and correctional institutions supported or aided at board as to all by the state, and all industrial schools, hospitals tions. and asylums, which shall be organized or existing under chapter eighty-six* of these statutes, and to familiarize themselves with all the circumstances affecting their management and usefulness. ers of exami (4) To thoroughly inquire into and examine the condition of each of the institutions and establishments here- General powinbefore referred to, their methods of treatment, in- nation. struction, government and management of their inmates, the official conduct of all trustees, managers, directors, superintendents and other officers and employes of the same, the condition of the buildings, grounds, and all other property connected with or pertaining to the same, and, into all other matters and things pertaining to their usefulness and good management, and to recommend to such officers and employes such changes and additional provisions as they deem proper. (5) To cause visits to be made annually, or as may be necessary to each such institution or establishment, either by the members personally or their secretary. (6) To make, whenever directed by the governor, special investigation into the past or present management, or special inves anything connected therewith, of any such institu- tigations. tion or establishment, comply with his directions therein, advise him of their progress from time to time, and upon completion thereof to report to him the testimony taken, the facts found by them and their conclusions thereon. (7) To prepare, and as may be necessary to amend from * "Of the Organization of Corporations." See, also, pl. 93, 94. To prepare system of time to time, subject to the approval of the governor, book-keeping. a system or plan for keeping the books and accounts of the state charitable and correctional institutions, to be as nearly uniform as can be adapted to their different wants and necessities, and to see that such plans are adopted and followed by each such institution, and to prescribe the form in which institutions shall, in their annual reports, set forth a detailed statement of their receipts and expenditures for the year. (8) To make such by-laws, rules and regulations, not incomBy-laws and patible with law, as shall be necessary for the convenient and proper performance of their duties. rules. (9) To make and present to the governor, on or before the Annual report. fifteenth day of December in each year, their annual report, in which they shall concisely state the condition of each charitable and correctional institution, supported or aided by the state, and their opinion of the appropriation proper to be made for each for the following year; the results of all their visits and investigations during the year in respect to each of the several matters herein charged upon them, and all important statistical information collected by them, properly tabulated, and such recommendations or suggestions as they may see fit to present respecting the subjects under their supervision; and their proceedings during the year, and a detailed statement of all expenditures made from the treasury by or on behalf of the board. Facilities for 7. To enable the performance of the duties herein imposed, $566. all trustees, managers, directors, superintendents examination. and other officers or employes of the institutions and establishments aforesaid shall at all times afford to every member of said board and their secretary, unrestrained facility for inspection of and free access to all parts of the buildings and grounds and to all books and papers of such institutions and establishments, and shall give either verbally or in writ ing such information as the board may require; and if any such person shall offend against this requirement, he shall forfeit not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. Each member and the secretary is authorized to administer caths and take the deposition of any person as a witness in any investigation; and the board may by vote authorize their secretary to cause testimony to be taken by any judge, justice |