Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![1848, 271. 1855,120, §1. Expenses of trial. 1837,228, §5. See 1862, 223, § 7. Fees of judges for committing and dis- charging lunatics; 1850, 235. Fees of of- ficers,'&c, and how paid; G. S. 73, §§ 16, 17. 1862, 216. of officers for commit- ting to be allowed by court and made up in the general bill. 1838, 31. See 1862, 223, § 6. shall be entitled to such compensation as is prescribed for jurors and witnesses in the supreme judicial court. Sect. 16. The expenses of the trial, including the fees of all necessary witnesses, shall be allowed and certified by the judge, and paid out of the county treasury. Sect. 17. There shall be allowed to each judge of the probate court, for receiving, hearing, and determining, eveiy application made to him for the commitment of a lunatic, a fee of two dollars, to be paid out of the county treasury. The judges shall present their account for such fees as often as once in each year, to the county commis- sioners, who shall audit and allow them, if found correct. There shall be allowed to the judge of the probate court for receiving, hearing, and determining an application for the discharge of a lunatic from either hospital, two dollars, to be paid by the party making the application. [Statutes 1862, chap. 223.] Sect. 7. Whenever application shall be made to any judge of probate for the commitment of an insane person under the provision of this act, he may allow to the sheriff, deputy-sheriff, or constable, or other person to whom a precept is directed b}- name, who may serve the same, the same fees as are allowed to officers upon the commitment of persons to prison, and such further sum for expenses incurred in said commitments, or in bringing such lunatic before the judge, as to him ma}r seem reasonable ; and the sums so allowed shall be certified and paid, as provided in the General Statutes, chapter seventy-three, section six- teen. [General Statutes, chap. 73.] Sect. .18. The superior court may allow to any sheriff, constable, or other person to whom a precept is directed by name, who may commit airy person to either hospital, the same fees as are allowed to officers upon the commit- ment of persons to prison, and such further sums for ex- penses incurred in said commitments as to the court may seem reasonable ; and the sums so allowed shall be made up in the general bill of costs for the term of the court at which the allowance is made. Overseers of poor to commit pauper in- sane person to hospital. G-. S. 70, 1862,223, §9. Board of state chari- ties to apply for commit- ment to hospital [Statutes 1864, chap. 288.] Sect. 6. It shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor of any city or town, except the city of Boston, to commit to one of the state lunatic hospitals, or the Boston lunatic hospital, with the consent of the trustees thereof, any person supported by such city or town who is suffer- ing under recent insanit}', and is a fit subject for remedial treatment. Sect. 7. Whenever the board of state charities shall have reason to believe that any insane person, not incur- able, is deprived of proper remedial treatment, and is confined in any almshouse or other place, whether such](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
