The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder.

  • Turner, J. Edward, 1822-1889.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I I - E. A. Lambert, Washington Hunt, G. P. 1*AKKER, Anson G. Phelps, Jacob S. Miller, Newel A. Prince, Jeremiah Terbell C. C. North, J. D. AVright, Alfred Brush, Henry Dubois, Noah Warral, G. B. Alvord, Zadok Pratt, J. Edward Turner. I CHAPTER 243. I An act to incorporate the United States Inebriate Asylum for r the Ilefonnation of the Poor and Destitute Inebriate. Passed April 15th, 1854. The people of the State of New York, represented in the ■ Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. All persons who shall become stockholders, piirsnant to this act, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body 1 politic and corporate, by the name of the United States J Inebriate Asylum. 2. The said Asylum shall continue for the period of fifty years, with the power to sue and be sued, to make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. 3. The said Asylum shall have power in, and by their corporate name to purchase, hold and convey real or lease- • hold estate in the city of New York, and to erect thereon a buildino; or buildings suitable for the purjiose of an asylum ■ hereinbefore named, and such other buildiiio’s as may be nec- essary for manufacturino’ aiid mercantile jiurposes connected with such institution, and to purchase, hold and convey such personal jjroperty as may be necessary for the objects above I specified, and for no other ]uirpose whatevei’. 4. The capital of said Asylum shall be fifty thousand dollars, but may be increased to two bundled thousand dol- lars at anytime the Board of Directors may think itcompati- blewith the best interest of said Asylum, and shall be divided into shares of ten dollars each, and shall be deemed ])ersoiial propei'ty, and transferable in such a manner as the said Asy- lum shall by by-laws direct. And said Asylum shall lio deemed fully organized, and may commence ojierations when ten per cent of its cajiital is paid in. 5. On the first Monday of each year, fifty ]>er cent of the income of said institution shall be a])])ro])riated for the exclusive ])ur])Oseof sup|)orting jioorand destitute inebriates and their families. The rmnaining fifty ]>er cent shall lie a a fund to be approjiriated for the payment of interest on the