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

shall suffer such patient to drink ar.
dent spirits, the person so conveying
him and his assistants, shall forfeit al
claim to The compensation allowed
them by this act.
SEC. '25. If the clerk of the court
of common pleas shall transmit to
the superintendent certificate, un.
der his official seal, setting forth that
any state patient in the asylum from
his county is no longer in needy cir
cumstances, within the meaning OF
this act, after the receipt of this cer-
tifcate, the patient shall be a pay
patient; and in such cases charges
shall be made out and paid, and a
bond shall be required, as in other
cases Of patients.
SEC. 26. II, according to the result
of the inquest, by two justices, the
patient shall be entitled 10 admission
into the asylum, the clerk shall d.
rect how he shall be taken care OF
until he can be admitted, and if ne
cessary, may direct his confinement
in the county poor house or coun-
ty jail, as he may deem best;
and if all things needful be not 9TH
erwise supplied, he shall furnish
them; and, in such case, the same
shall be paid for out of the county
treasury, on the certificate Of the
clerk and the order of the county au-
ditor.
SEC. 81. No idiot or lunatic, sent
TO the county Jail, shall, if ii can be
avoided, be confined in the same
room with person charged with or
convicted OF crime.
SEC. 2S. When an idiot or lu-
natic not entitled to admission into
the asylum as a state patient, shall
be at large, and this being so at large.
shall be attended with danger to him.
self or others; upon such fact being
established by the certificate of two
justices of the peace Of the county,
or the affidavit Of some respectable
citizen Of the county, filed with the
clerk of the court Of common pleas;
the clerk shall thereupon order such
idiot or lunatic TO be confined and
provided for as directed by the twen-
ty-sixth section of this act, and all
costs and charges shall be paid as d.
rected in said section: Provided, that
if such idiot or lunatic, be not in nee
dy circumstances within the mean
ing of this act, such costs and char
gss shall be repaid out of his estate.
and may be recovered by suit in the
name Of the county commissioners
upon the common counts, and in
such case no evidence shall be neces-
sary but the certificate of the clerk
under his official seal, setting forth
the particulars and amount of such
charges and that the same have been
paid out Of the county treasury.
Sec. %. When any person shall
be confined as aforesaid, under the
order Of the clerk, and the attending
physician shall certify that he is re-
stored to reason, or that it is no Ion
ger necessary to confine him, or if a
sufficient bond shall be executed to
the State Of Ohio, TO be approved by
the clerk conditioned for his safe kee-
ping and support, the clerk shall
thereupon order him TO be discharged,
or 70 be delivered TO his friends as the
case may be, and where an idiot or
lunatic shall be so confined, he shall
not be discharged or removed, ex-
cept upon the order or warrant OF
the clerk, as hereinbelore mentioned;
Provided, that nothing herein con-
tanned shall be so construed as 10 de-
prive the person SO confined, of the
benefit Of the writ of habeas corpus.
SEC. 80. Any patient may be dis
charged from the asylum, upon the
Of the superintendent TO
one Of the directors, and such d.
rector's order thereupon. lncura-
Bile and. harmless patients shall be
whenever such discharge
IS necessary to make room for a re-
cent case from the same county.
SEC. 81. Whenever an order shall |
be made out for the removal OF a
State patient from the asylum, the
superintendent sh a. Immediately |
give notice thereof, under his official ].
seal, to the clerk OF the court Of COM
non pleas Of the county from which
such patient was sent, and thereupon
such clerk shal, forthwith issue bis
warrant to the sheriff Of said county, /
which warrant shall be substantially, +
Is follows:
The State of Ohio, - county, IS.
Clerks Office of the Court OF
Common Pleas.
Whereas, the proper authority has
directed that --, patient in the
ohio Lunatic Asylum, from this coun-
y, be removed from said asylum;
Tou are therefore hereby comman-
led forthwith to remove said patient,
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