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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![dred and forty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Trustees Sect. 3. Said trustees are hereby authorized to sell land.861' an°l conve}r an}- land heretofore used by said hospital, not i870,23s,§4. necessary for the purpose of the asylum, in accordance with the provisions of section four of chapter two hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy. Sect. 4. This act shall take effect on the first day of September next. [Approved May 15, 1877. When act takes effect State luna- tic hospi- tals, titles of. G. 8. 73. [Statutes 1862, chap. 223.] Section 1. The titles of the state lunatic hospitals shall be severally, The Worcester Lunatic Hospital, The Taunton Lunatic Hospital, and The Northampton Lunatic Hospital. Govern- ment of each hospi- tal vested in live trus- tees. Appoint- ment and term of office of trustees. R.S.48,§17. 1856,247, §1. 1859,177, §3. See 1862, 223, § 1. Trustees may take and hold grants, &c, and invest proceeds. R. S. 48, § 2. 1842, 96, § 1. 1853,318, §1. 1856,247, §3. Trustees, powers and duties of. R. S. 48, §2. 1853,318, §1. 1856,247, §3. [General Statutes, chap. 73.] Section 1. The government of each of the state luna- tic hospitals at Worcester, Taunton, and Northampton, shall be vested in a board of five trustees, appointed and commissioned by the governor with the advice and con- sent of the council, subject to removal only for sufficient cause. The trustees now in office shall continue to hold their offices until the terms thereof expire according to the provisions of this section. On the first Wednesday of February in each year the term of office of the senior member in each board, as they stand arranged on the list of their appointments, shall terminate, and the name of the person appointed to fill the vacancy shall be placed at the bottom of the list, and other vacancies ma}T at any time be filled, and the names of the persons appointed substituted in the list for the remainder of the vacant terms. Sect. 2. The trustees of each hospital shall be a cor- poration for the purpose of taking and holding, to them and their successors, in trust for the Commonwealth, any grant or devise of lands, and any donation or bequest of money, or other personal property, made for the use of the institution of which they are the trustees, and for the purpose of preserving and investing the proceeds thereof in notes or bonds secured b}' good and sufficient mort- gages or other securities, with all the powers necessary to cany said purposes into effect. Sect. 3. They shall take charge of the general inter- ests of the institution, and see that its affairs are con- ducted according to the requirements of the legislature and the by-laws and regulations which the board shall establish for the internal government and economy there-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
