Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-07-04

lii to the clerk BY whom it was issued
and if any clerk upon receiving suel
notice, shall refuse or neglect for th.
space of FIVE days to issue and plac.
such warrant in the hands Of the
sheriff, or if such sheriff shall refuse
to receive the same, or shall neglec'
for the space Of twenty days after
receiving the warrant, to demand
such patient Of the superintendent
the patient shall be charged from tht
date Of the notice to The clerk until
his removal, at the sans rates as pa
patients, and the amount Of sud
charges may be recovered in an
ton Of assumpsit upon the comm
counts, with costs Of suit in the naa5
of the superintendent, against III
clerk or sheriffso offending.
SEC. 80. When State patient is dis
charged as cured, the superintendent
may furnish him with suitable clothing,
and a sum of money not e. ceeding
twenty dollars if he deems it necessary.
SEC. 80. No idiot shall be admitted
into the asylum, and every such patient
therein shall be discharged, and no IL
natic under the age of seven years sha
be admitted.
SEC. "a. Ifspplication shall be mad
for the admission of more patients thai
the institution can receive, a selectiQt
shall be made as follows:
1st. Recent cases, Ii. e.) where IL
disease is of less than one years dura,
ton, shall have the preference over ali
others in the same county.
Cd. Chronic cases, ii. e.) where the
disease is of more than one years dura-
ton; presenting the most favorable pros
.pect of recovery, shall be next prefer
red.
Sd. Those for whom applications have
been longest on iile, other things being
equal, shall next be preferred.
4th. No county shall have in the in
stitution more than its Just proportion
according TO its population.
9th. No distinction shall be made be-
tween pay patients and State patients.
SEC. 35. Pauper idiots and lunatics,
not within the provisions of this act,
and those discharged from the asylum,
shall be provided for in the same man.
ner as other poor.
SEC. Sc. When any State patient dis
charged from the asylum as cured, shall
again become insane. any respectable
physician may file with rne clerk Of the
court of common pleas certificate, set
ting forth the recurrence of the disease;
and such facts and suggestions relating
thereto, as he may deem material; up
on receiving such cerulcats, the clerk
shall Immediately transmit copy there
of, authenticated by his official seal to
the superintendent, and thereupon the
same proceedings shall be had in all
respects as when the certificate of the
justice holding the inquest was trans
mitted.
SEC. 81. When any person shall be
confined as insane, writ OF habeas
corpus may be issued as in other cases,
for his discharge, and the question of in
sanity shall be decided at the hearing;
Provided, thatif the judge shall decide
that the person is insane, the decision
shall be no bar TO the issuing Of another
writ, whenever it shall be alleged that
such person has since been restored TO
reason.
w. OF GUARDIANS OF IDIOTS AND
LUNATIcs.
SEC. SO. The court OF common
pleas at any general or special term,
and.upon satisfactory proof that any
person resident Of the county, or hav-
ing a settlement in any township
is an idiot, or lunatic, may
guardian for such idiot or
lunatic. M
SEC. 80. Such guardian shall, by
virtue of such appointment, be the
guardian of the minor children of
his ward, unless the court appoint
some other person as their guardi-
an.
SEC. 40. All laws relating to
guardians for minors and their
wards, and laws pointing out the
duties, rights and liabilities Of such
guardians and their sureties, in force |
for the time being, shall be applica-
Bile TO guardians for idiots and luna
lies and their children, so far as the !
same are in conformity with the
provisions of this act.
SEC. Al. Such guardian may sue
IN his own name, describing himselfI
IS guardian OF the ward for whom
he. sues, and when his guardianship
hall cease by his death, removal or
,ilierwise, or by the decease Of his
ward, any suit, action or procee-
iing then pending, shall not abate,
,ut his successor, as guardian, or
uch idiot or lunatic, il he be restor-
d to his reason, or the executor or
of such idiot or luna
ic. as the case may require, shall
,e made party to the suit, or other
proceeding, in like manner as is or
nay be provided by law for making