Seventeenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : transmitted to the Legislature February 7, 1860 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
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1860
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Credit: Seventeenth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum : transmitted to the Legislature February 7, 1860 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. Reference to laws passed by the Legislature relative to insane persons. Part 1, chap. 20, title 3, art. 1, of the Revised Statutes, “ Of the safe keeping and care of lunatics.” Session Laws, 1842, chap. 135, “An act to organize the State Lunatic Asylum, and more effectually to provide for the care, maintenance and recovery of the insane.” Session Laws, 1850, chap. 282, sec. 2, relating to sending indigent insane persons, not paupers, to the Asylum. Session Laws, 1851, chap. 446, amending the law respecting indigent insane persons. “ The county superintendents of the poor of any county, and any over¬ seers of the poor of any town to which any person shall be chargeable, who shall be or become a lunatic, may send such person to the Lunatic Asylum by an order under their hands.” The order of a county judge secures the admission of indigent persons, not paupers, in which order it must be stated that the applicant became insane within one year prior to the date of the order. (Sec. 26 of act of 1842.) The above law was changed by chap. 282, Session Laws, 1850, sec. 2 of which is as follows : “ No person in indigent circumstance, not a pauper, shall be admitted into the Asylum on the certificate of a county judge, made under and pursuant to the provisions of the twenty-sixth section of the “ Act to organize the State Lunatic Asylum, and more effectually to provide for the care, mainteiiance and recovery of the insane,” passed April 7, 1842, unless such person has become insane within one year next prior to the granting of such certificate by the county judge ; and it shall be the duty of said judge, when an application is made to him, pursuant to said twenty-sixth section of said act, to cause such reasonable notice thereof, and of the time and place of hearing the same, to be given to one of the superintendents of the poor of the county, chargeable with supporting such person in the Asylum, if admitted, or if such expense is chargeable to a town, or city, then to an overseer of the poor of such town, or city, as he may judge reasonable under the circumstances, and he shall then proceed to inquire as to the time when such person became insane, and shall, in addition to the requirements of said twenty-sixth section, state in his certificate that satisfactory proof has been adduced before him, that [Senate, No. 38.] 3