of different classes of articles, and do and perform such other duties as shall be required of him by the by-laws, ordained by the board of trustees. Officers and 17. The resident officers of the asylum, and all attendants and assistants, actually employed therein, during $659. the term of such employment, shall be exempt from employes exserving on juries, and the certificate of the superin- jury service. tendent shall be evidence of such employment. empt from Act of 1882, ch. 32, § 1. Name of new Commis 18. A new asylum shall be established for the maintenance and treatment of the insane of the state of Mississippi, which shall be located, erected and organized as is hereinafter provided; the said asylum asylum. to be called the "East Mississippi State Insane Asylum." 19. The governor of the state shall appoint five (5) commissioners who shall immediately proceed to locate bid § 2. and establish the said asylum at or within two sioners. miles of Meridian, in Lauderdale county; provided, Location. sufficient and suitable grounds for that purpose Land required. shall be donated by the city of Meridian, or the citizens of Meridian, within sixty days after the passage of this act; and provided further, that there shall not be less than four hundred acres, at least two hundred acres of which shall be well timbered, and if said lands shall not be donated within such time, the said commissioners shall proceed to locate said asylumn at such place as they deem best for the interests of the state, and said commissioners may receive donations of lands or property. And the boards of councilmen and aldermen of the city of Meridian are hereby authorized to levy Tax to pay and collect a tax on the taxable property in said city sufficient to pay for land so donated, and to purchase said lands and to donate the same. for land. bid § 3. Plans for 20. Said board of commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to employ an architect to draw up plans and specifications for the erection of said asy- building. lum, and to advertise for bids for the erection of the same, with power to accept the lowest and best bid, or to reject Bids. any or all bids for the erection of the same, according to plans and specifications furnished by said commissioners, and said commissioners shall require of the successful bidder, a bond with good and sufficient security, conditioned Bond. for the faithful performance of his contract; said bond to be made payable to the state of Mississippi, and filed in the office of the secretary of state. Ibid § 4. Expenses of commission 21. All necessary expenses of said board of commissioners, shall be paid by the treasurer of the state on warrant to be drawn by the auditor out of the appropriation hereinafter provided for the erection of said asylum, upon the presentation of an itemized account of said expenses, to be approved by the governor. ers. Ibid § 5. of building. 22. Said board of commissioners shall erect or cause to be erected, a centre building with wings of a capacity sufficient for the care and maintenance of two hundred and fifty patients; said buildings to be furnished with necessary boiler power, and engine, hot and cold water, and gas pipes and other appurtenances suitable for the proper furnishing of an insane asylum; and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this and the preceding sections, the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out priated. of any moneys in the treasury otherwise unappropriated; said money to be drawn from the treasury in the same manner as is provided in section 4 of this act; provided, that no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used except upon a contract with good and sufficient security, guaranteeing the completion of the building with the sum hereby appropriated; said building to be of brick and covered with $50,000 appro slate. Trustees. 23. As soon as said asylum is finished, or sufficiently so Ibid § 6. as to receive patients, the governor shall appoint five (5) trustees to control and manage said asylum, who shall be invested with all the powers possessed by the board of trustees of the asylum now in existence, as laid down in chapter 13, Revised Code 1880; and said board of trustees, Furniture. so soon as appointed, shall proceed to furnish said asylum with furniture, bedding and other appurtenances, necessary for the care and maintenance of the insane inmates, officers and employes, and to erect necessary outbuildings, fences, and make all necessary improvements of the grounds, and purchase the necessary stock, vehicles, etc., for the proper Term of office management of said asylum; said trustees shall continue in office till the next regular session of the of trustees legislature, and till their successors shall qualify, and thereafter such trustees shall be appointed and continue in office in the same manner and for the same time now provided by law for the state lunatic asylum at Jackson.* Ibid § 7. printed. 24. For the purposes specified in section six [6] of this act, the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury, not other wise appropriated, to be drawn as is provided in section two hundred and fifty (250) Revised Code 1880. Medical supt. 25. When said board of trustees have been appointed and the services of a medical superintendent are bid § 8. necessary to take charge of said asylum, the governor of state shall appoint a medical superintendent to take charge of said asylum, and said asylum shall be brought under the operation of chapter 13, Revised Code of 1880. $30,000 appro 26. The sum of thirty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the state treasury not Ibid § 9. otherwise appropriated, for the support and main- priated. tenance of said asylum during the fiscal years 1882 and 1883, or so much of said sum as may be needed. as amended How patients to asylum; ex 27. Any person being a lunatic and a resident of the state of Mississippi shall be admitted into the asylum $ 659, free of charge. The necessary expenses of remov- 1882, ch. 30. ing such lunatic to and from said asylum shall be are admitted paid by the county from which such lunatic may penses. be sent, and the board of supervisors shall order a warrant to be issued therefor; provided, a certificate of some judge, chancellor or justice of the peace be produced that sufficient proof by affidavit has been made before him that such lunatic has no visible means to defray the necessary expenses of removing such lunatic to and from said asylum. But if the legal settlement of such lunatic be in another county from that from which he shall be sent to the asylum, the county in which such lunatic has such settlement shall pay to the county incurring the expense of making inquisition and sending such lunatic to the asylum all its legal disbursements on such account. * 28. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to admit into 642, pl. 1, etc. $660. Admissions. the asylum all persons ordered to be placed therein after an inquest of lunacy in the due order of regis tration, if there be a vacancy in such asylum; and the presentation of a duly certified copy of such order, under the seal of the chancery court, shall authorize the admission of the patient into the asylum. $ 661. Admissions. 29. On application in behalf of any person being a lunatic and a resident of this state, for his or her admission into the asylum, the superintendent and board of trustees may, if they think that he or she ought to be admitted, receive him or her as a patient therein, even though no proceedings in lunacy have been instituted as hereinafter provided for. § 662. Admissions. 30. The trustees of such asylum may adopt such rules as they see proper, as to the history of the lunacy of the patient proposed to be admitted into the asylum, which shall be presented with the application for admission or afterwards, as such rules may require, and may compel conformity to such rules, by refusing the application on behalf of a person for admission into the asylum, without compliance with them. $ 663. Inquest of In how taken. 31. In case the friends or relations of any lunatic shall neglect or refuse to place him or her in said asynacy, when and lum, and shall permit him or her to go at large, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the chancery court of any county in which such lunatic may reside or be found going at large, on the suggestion, in writing, of any citizen of the county, to direct the sheriff, by writ of lunacy, to summon, as soon as may be, the alleged lunatic and six discreet persons of the county in which such lunatic is going at large, to make inquisition thereto on oath and the result of such inquisition to return to said court forthwith; and if the person said to be a lunatic shall be adjudged by such inquest, or a majority of them, to be insane and one who should be confined therein, the said clerk shall order said sheriff to arrest said lunatic and place him or her in said asylum if there be a vacancy, or if there be no vacancy, to confine such lunatic in the county jail until room can be had in the lunatic asylum. The expense of such inquest shall be borne by the county and paid out of the county treasury on the allowance thereof by the board of supervisors. tients from 32. When any patient in the asylum shall be found to be incurable, but harmless, and such as can be properly §664. Removal of cared for out of the asylum, the superintendent shall certain painform the sheriff of the county from which such asylum. patient was taken to the asylum to remove such patient therefrom, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff, on receiving such information, at once to notify some near relation of such patient shall thereof, if any such is in his county, and unless such relation immediately proceed to remove such patient from the asylum, said sheriff shall remove such patient to the county of such sheriff; and any sheriff, who being notified, as aforesaid, shall fail to remove such patient, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punishable accordingly. For such service the sheriff shall be paid out of the treasury of his county three dollars each day employed in performing it, and ten cents a mile for each mile traveled in going from the court house of his county to the asylum, and returning, to be allowed on due proof by the board of supervisors. Removals. § 666. 33. If such patient has an estate it shall be chargeable with the expense of his removal, as above provided for, § 685. and with the support of such lunatic, who shall be committed to his or her guardian, if any has been appointed. 34. If such lunatic has no estate for his or her support, but has relatives bound by law for his or her maintenance, they shall bear said expenses, and may be sued therefor by the board of supervisors, and shall maintain said lunatic, as required by law; but if such lunatic has no estate, and has no such relatives as are bound for his or her support, he or she shall be maintained as a poor person by the county. Removals. 35. If at the time of the removal of such patient from the county to the asylum, he or she had a legal settle $ 667. ment in another county, such person may be re- Removals. moved to such county, as in other cases of poor persons being found in another county than that in which they may have a settlement. 36. The last preceding three sections shall apply to and embrace the case of any patient in the asylum, who Removals. *This word has evidently crept into the text. |