Ibid § 8. cuit court of inal court of Baltimore. or the criminal court of Baltimore, any person aping recess of cir- pearing or alleged to be insane or lunatic shall be county, or crim- arrested and charged with any crime or misdemeanor before the judge thereof, the said judge shall issue an order to the sheriff of the county or city where said offense has been committed, requiring him forthwith to summon a jury of twelve good and lawful men, and to charge such jury to inquire whether such person was lunatic or insane at the time such offense was committed, and then is so; and if the jury find that the party charged was insane or lunatic at the time of the commission of the offense, and still is so, the judge shall commit such person, as directed in the preceding section. Ibid § 9. Where person failing to give security to 24. The provisions of the preceding sections relating to lunatics and insane shall apply to the case of any person who may be arrested on any process issued keep the peace. by any court or judge of this state, founded on oath, requiring security to keep the peace, and who shall fail to give such security. MASSACHUSETTS. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, LUNACY AND CHARITY. 1. Organization of board, term of office. 2. To have supervision over asylums, may assume control of. 3. To appoint officers, hold meetings, make by-laws; reports. 4. To visit and inspect public and private asylums. 5. To require inventories from trustees. 6. To have control over insane paupers. 7. To transfer paupers from one asylum to another. 8. To transfer paupers from almshouse to asylum; physician's certificate; to transfer from one private asylum to another. 9. Reports of private asylums. 10. Reports, when to be submitted. 11. To act as commissioners of lunacy. 26. Superintendent and matron of, to be appointed in county of Essex. 27. Commitment to county receptacle in discretion of judge. 28. Support in county receptacle, provisions for. 29. Transfer to asylum, by governor. 30. Discharge in discretion of judge. 31. Paupers not to be kept in county buildings. 32. Private asylums, licenses for. 33. Penalties for keeping private asylum without license. ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE. 34. Commitment to asylum by judges. 35. Certificate, personal examination by judge, hearing. 36 Certificate, personal examination by physicians. 37. Notice of intention to apply for commitment. 38. Statement to be filed, contents of. 39. Warrant of arrest, service of. 40. Trial by jury in discretion of judge. 41. Impaneling of jury. 42. Verdict of jury to be final. 43. Deficiency in jury, how supplied. 44. Fees of officers and jurors. 45. Records and papers to be kept. 46. Fees of judge and physician. 47. Expenses of commitment. 48. Transfer of patients from almshouse. 49. Temporary confinement, on physician's certificate and application of town officers. 50. Bond of person committing. 51. Voluntary patients received. 52. Notice to board of charity when committed otherwise than by order of court. 53. Illegal commitment, penalties. 54. Support of indigent insane, charges. 55. Support of insane not having settlement in state, liability for. 56. Support, expenses of, how recovered by asylum. 57. Reimbursement of towns. 58. Attorney for insane person, regulations for visits of. 59. Letters of patients allowed, collection of by board of charities. Statutes 1882, ch. 79. § 1. State board of nacy, and charity, how 75. Acquitted on ground of insanity, commitment by court. 76. Acquitted in capital cases, commit- 78. Suspension of sentence on acquittal 80. Insane convicts, commission of lu- 82. Insane convicts in prison other than 86. Insane criminals before sentence, 87. Provisions of act to be retroactive. 1. The state board of health, lunacy, and charity shall consist of nine persons. The present members thereof shall continue to hold their offices during the terms health, lu- for which they were appointed. Two members of organized, etc. the board shall retire each year, in the order of their appointment, except every fifth year, when one shall retire. The appointments or re-appointments to fill vacancies occurring from expiration of terms of office shall be for five years; and all vacancies which may occur from that cause or otherwise shall be filled by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council. Ibid § 2. pervision over certain state institutions, etc. 2. The board shall have general supervision over the state lunatic hospitals, the state almshouse, the state To have su- workhouse, the state primary school, the state reform school, and the state industrial school for girls; it may, when directed by the governor, assume and exercise the powers of the boards of trustees of said institutions in any matter relating to the management thereof, excepting the trusts which are vested in the trustees of the state primary and reform schools; and may assign any of its May assign its powers and duties to agents appointed for the pur powers and duties to pose, and may execute any of its functions by such agents, or by committees appointed from and by agents. said board. To appoint its officers, fix hold monthly make by-laws, meetings; and report, serve without compensation. 3. The board, with the consent of the governor, shall appoint such officers as may be necessary, and fix Ibid § 3. their compensation, within the limits of the annual appropriation. It shall be provided with rooms at the state house, and shall hold meetings each month on a day fixed by itself, and at such other times as may be needful. It shall make its own by-laws, and shall make a report of its doings to the governor and council on or before the thirty-first day of December in each year, such report being made up to the thirtieth day of September inclusive. It shall embody in its report a properly classified and tabulated statement of the receipts and expenses of the board and of each of the several institutions named above for the said year and a corresponding classified and tabulated statement of their estimates for the year ensuing, with its opinion as to the necessity or expediency of appropriations in accordance with said estimates; but this provision shall not apply to estimates for the ordinary expenses of lunatic hospitals. The report shall also present a concise review of the work of the several institutions for the year preceding, with such suggestions and recommendations as to them, and the charitable, reformatory, and sanitary interests of the state, as may be deemed expedient. The members of the board, and of the boards of trustees of the state institutions above named, shall receive no compensation for their services; but their traveling and other necessary expenses shall be allowed and paid; and no person employed by the board shall be a member thereof. bid § 5. To visit certain institu tions, etc. 4. The board shall at least once in every year visit all places where state paupers are supported, and ascertain from actual examination and inquiry whether the laws in respect to such paupers are properly observed, particularly in relation to such as are able to labor; and shall give such directions as will insure correctness in the returns required in relation to paupers; and may use such means as may be necessary to collect all desired information. in relation to their support. It shall visit the state almshouse, the state primary school, and the state reform school, as often as once in each month, for the purpose of inspecting said institutions, and for this purpose it shall, by some woman or women deputed by it, have access at all hours of the day or night to the portions of said institutions occupied by the women or children there maintained at the public expense; and the officers of said institutions shall furnish all information concerning the condition and treatment of their inmates which the board shall require. It shall also visit and inspect every private asylum or receptacle for the insane at least once in every six months. Ibid § 7. To have an nual inventory 5. The trustees of the several institutions named in section two shall annually on the thirtieth day of September cause to be made and sent to the board an accurate inventory of the stock and supplies on hand, and the value and amount thereof, at each institution, under the following heads: of certain institutious. Live stock on the farm; produce of the farm on hand; carriages and agricultural implements; machinery and mechanical fixtures; beds and bedding in the inmates' department; other furniture in the inmates' department; personal property of the state in the superintendent's department; ready-made clothing; dry goods; provisions and groceries; drugs and medicines; fuel; library. Ibid § 8. Powers of, in relation to paupers at hospitals. 6. The board shall have the same powers in relation to state paupers who are inmates of either of the lunatic hospitals in this state, and their property, as are by law vested in towns and overseers of the poor in reference to paupers supported or relieved by towns. 7. It may transfer pauper inmates from one state charitable institution or lunatic hospital to another, or may send them to any state or place where they belong, when the public interest or the necessities of the inmates require such transfer. Ibid § 9. May transfer pauper inmates from one institut'n to another. Ibid § 13. May transfer inmates of almshouse or 8. The board may transfer and commit to either of the state lunatic hospitals, or to the asylum for the chronic insane at Worcester, any inmate of the state almsworkhouse to house or state workhouse whose condition requires hospitals. such transfer; but no such transfer shall be made. without the certificate of two physicians, one of whom has no state lunatic |