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Credit: A bill intituled An act to amend the acts relating to lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lunacy Acts Amendment Bill, [h.l.] ARRANGEMENT OE CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Short title, commencement, and extent. 2. Appointment of justices to make orders for reception. 3. Orders for reception of private patients to be made by county court judge, magistrate, or justice. 4. Urgency orders. 5. Lunatics not under proper control or care and cruelly treated or neglected. 6. Persons disqualified from signing certificates. 7. Patients not to be received under certificates by interested persons. 8. Form of medical certificate. 9. Reception of lunatic so found pending appointment of com- mittee. 10. Officiating clergyman and overseer not to sign order. 11. When lunatic may be treated as a pauper. 12. Justice not to act upon bis own knowledge only. 13. Lunatics in workhouses. 14. Power to send discharged pauper not recovered to a work- house. 15. Forms as to pauper lunatics. 16. Mis-statement to be a misdemeanor. 17. Amendment of orders and certificates. 18. Power to order payment of remuneration to medical practi- tioner, and of expenses. 19. Provisions of 8 & 9 Viet. c. 100. and 16 & 17 Viet. c. 97. and the amending Acts applied to orders and certificates under this Act. 20. Notice to be given of change of classification of patient. 21. Reports upon and visits to private patients. 22. Orders for reception to expire at the end of three years unless continued. (12.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24908083_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
