The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-04-30

ems OF q lark cOlorS Such clotnln8 snail
be delivered in good order, with the pa
tent, to the superintendent, and without
ouch clothing, the superintendent shall
not be bound to receive the patient.
SEC. 25. If any person found to be
insane, annot for any cause be admitted
into the asylum, the probate judge shall
direct the sheriff of the county, or some
other suitable person, TO take charge Of
such ~lunatic, until such cause shall be re.
removed, and if necessary, may direct the
confinement of such lunatic in the county
afirmary or Jail, as the circumstances may
require, and if all things needful be mo-
otherwise supplied, he shall furnish them,
and in such case the same shall be paid
for out. of the county treasury, on the Ger.
tifcate of the probate judge and the order
of the county auditor Provided, thai
such judge shall MT, in any case, furnish
anything either in the way of cloathiDg
as provided in section twenty-four of thi-
act, or for any other purpose, to q person
who is not in needy circumstances, as i:
provided in section sixty-three of this act;
And provided further, no lunatic shall be
confined in the same room with a person
charged with or convicted of a crime.
SEC. &c. When a ~lunatic not entitled
to admission into an asylum shall be at
large, and his being so at largo shall be
dangerous to himself or others, upon such
fact being established to the satisfaction
of the probate judge, he shall Immediately
order such lunatic to be confined aud pro-
vided for, as directed by the twenty-fifth
section of this act, and when any person
shall be so confined, and the attending
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restored to reason, or that it is not ncces-
sary longer to. %ccnfne such person, or if
the friends of such person shall agree to
take the care of such person, the probate
judge shall immediately order his dis.
charge.
SEC. 81. Any patient may be dis
charged from an asylum upon the appli-
cation of the superintendent to one of the
trustees, and order of such trustee. In
durable and harmless patients may be dis
charged whenever such discharge is nee
essary to make room for a recent case
from the same county; and whenever an
order shall be made out for the removal of
a patient from an asylum, the superintend-
ent shall forthwith give notice thereof,
under seal of the asylum, to the probate
Judge Of the county f.om which such pa
tient was sent, aud h~ereupon such probate
judge shall forthwith issue his warrant to
the sheriff or some other suitable person,
giving the relatives of the patient the
preference which warrant shall be sub
substantially as follows:
The state of Ohio, - county IS:
O6ce of the probate Judge of said
county.
The proper authority having directed
that --,a patient from this county
in the lunatic asylum at -, be re-
moved from said asylum, you are com
manded forthwith to remove said patient,
and return him to -- township in
this county, of which he is an ~inhabitant
Witness my hand and official seal this
this - day Of, a. D.
a. B., Probate Judge.
Upon the receipt of such warrant, it
shall be the duty CT the person to whom
it is directed to forthwith execute the
same, and return it to~thc probate judge
by WI ON it was issued.
SEC. IS. When a patient is discharged
as cured, the superintendent may furnish
such patient with suitable clothing, and
such sum of money as he shall deem fit,
not, in any case exceeding twenty dollars.
SEC. 20. II application shall be made
to any asylum for the admission of more
patients than sVch institution can accom-
modate. a selection shall be made as fol-
lows First, Recent cases, i. e., where the
disease is of less than one years dura-
ton, shall have the preference over all
Others in the same county. Second,
Chronic cases, i. e., when the disease is
of more than one years duration, present.
ing the most favorable prospects of recov-
cry, shall be next preferred. Third.
Those for whom applications have been
longest on file, other things being equal,
be next preferred. Fourth. No
shall have in any institutions more
than its just proportion according to the
number of insane persons therein, as
provided in the nineteenth section of this
act, except ia cases where some other
county in the same asylum district shall
not have a sufficient number of ~lunatics to
fill up its proportion. In such cases the
superintendent may admit from any county
mora than its just proportion, giving
preference to patients applying as herein
before provided.
SEC. so. When any patient discharg,
ed from an asylum as cured shall again
become insane, and auy respectable ply
stefan shall file with the probate judge of
the county of which said insane person
shall be an inhabitant, an affidavit setting
forth the fact of the recurrence of the
and such other facts relating
thereto as he may deem proper, the pro-
bate judge shall forthwith transmit n copy
of such affidavit, authenticated by his
official seal, to the superintendent of the
proper asylum, and t%hereupon the same
proceeding shall be had as provided in
act for persons found to be insane up
on inquest held for that purpose.
SEC. 81. All persons confined as in
sanc shall be entitled to the benefit of the
writ of habeas corpus, and the question of
insanity shall be decided at the hearing;
and if the judge shall decide that the
person is insane, such decision shall be no
bar to the issuing of the writ a second
time, whenever it shall be alleged that
such person has been restored to reason.
SEC. 50. Paupcr idiots and lunatics
not within the meaning of this act, and
those discharged from the asylum, Shall
be provided for in the same manner as
ether poor.
See. 33. In all cases of inquests held
under the provisions of this act, the pro-
bate judge shall file and carefully preserve
all papers fled with him, and shall make
such entries upon his docket as will, tc-
gcther with tho papers fled as aforesaid,
preserve a perfect record of each case