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fCHAp. XXXvL]-An Act supplementary to an Act
to organize an Institution for the Insane of the
Army and Navy. and of the District of Colum-
bia, in the said District, approved March third,
eighteen hundred and fty.fve. SAP
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives Of the United States of America in Con-
gross assembled, That no insane person not charged
with any breach of the peace shall hereafter be
confined in the United States Jail, or 10 the United
States pententiary, in this District. )
SEC. Q. And be il further enacted, That the Sec
rotary of the Interior shall have power to grant his
order for the admission into the government hospital
for the insane, any insane person unable to support
himself or herself and family, Tor himself or herself
insanity, who resided in the District at the time he
or she became insane, and who is not charged with
any breach of the peace upon the certificate Of any
judge of the circuit criminal court, any justice
of the peace othe District stating that two respec
table physicians appeared before said judge or JUS
tce and certified under OATH and under their hands,
that they knew the party alleged to be insane, and
that they believed him her to be fit subject for
treatment in such hospital also stating that two
respectable bouseholders residents of the District
appeared before him and certified under oath, and
under their hands, that they knew the party alleged
to be insane and INDECENT, that he or she was
sident of the District at the time he she seiz
ed with the mental disorder under which he or she
then labored, and that he or she was unable to pay
his or her board and other expenses therein and
the certificate of such physicians and the certificate
of such householders shall accompany the certf-
cate of such judge or justice The application OF
to the Secretary of the Interior for his order for
the admission of said INDECENT insane person into
the said hospital mus. be made within five days af-
ter the examination of the witnesses before the said
judge or justice Of the peace, before such proceed
ings shall be had before such judge or justice.
Sec 8. And be it further enacted, That the order
of the Secretary of the INTERIOR granted under the
authority of the second section of this act shall
thorize any police Office constable to assist in
carrying such INDECENT insane person 10 the hospi-
tai, whenever such assistance is represented to be
necessary by the person holding the order; but all
the expenses Of witnesses before said judge or JUS
tice of the peace, and of carrying such patti, to
the hospital, shall be borne by his or her friends or
by the local authorities of the District.
Sec. f. And be it further enacted That any indi
gent insane person who did not reside in the Dis
trct at the time he or she became insane, may in
like manner as provided in the second section of
this act, be admitted into the said hospital upon the
application of the corporate authorities of the city
of Washington, or of Georgetown, and at the ex-
pense of either of the said cities during the contin
uance of said insane person therein, it being hereby
designed to give the superintendent ereofauthoity
to take charge of such insane person until the
thortes aforesaid discover who his her friends
are or whence he or she came with q view to the
return ofsuch person to such friends to the place
of his or her residence, and thus relieve said cor
porate authorities of the expense and charge of said
INDECENT insane nonresident.
Sec. s. And be it further enacted, That if any
person, charged with crime, be found in the court
before which he she is SO charged, TO be an in
sane person. such court shall certify the same to the
Secretary of the Interior, who may order such per-
son to be confined in said hospital, and if he she
be not INDECENT he she and his her estate shall
be charged with expenses of his or her support in
said hospital.
Sec 6. And be it further enacted, That any per-
son becoming insane during the continuance of his
or her sentence in the United States penitentiary,
shall have the same privilege of treatment in the
hospital during the continuance of his her mental
disorder is granted in section five to persons who
escape the consequences of criminal acts by reason
Of intanity, unless it be the opinion, both of the
physician to the penitentiary and the superinten-
dent of the hospital that such insane convict is
depraved and furious in his or her character as to
render his her custody in the hospital insecure,
and his or her example pernicous.
SEC. z. And be it further enacted, That when any
person confined in said hospital, charged with crime
and subject to be tried therefor or convicted of
crime and undergoing sentence therefor shall be
stored to sanity the superintendent of the hospital
shall give notice thereof to the judge of the criminal
court and deliver him her to said court in obedi
ence to the proper precept.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted. That the indie
pendent or pay patients may be received into the
hospital the certificate of two respectable physi
clans of the District stating that they have personal
ly examined the patient, and believe him or her to
be insane at the time of giving the certificate, and
fit subject for treatment in the institution, accom-
panied by written request for the admission from
the nearest relatives, legal guardian friend of the
patient, where he she may remain until restored
to reason: Provided, The friends of the patient
comply with the regulations Of the hospital in re-
spect to payment ofboard, and in all other respects
The request for admission must be made within five
days of the date of the certificate of insanity.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That if any
person will give bond with sufficient security, to
be approved by the criminal court, circuit court
or any judge thereof in vacation, payable to the
United States, with condition to restrain and take
care Of any independent or INDECENT insane person
not charged with breach of the peace, whether in
the hospital not, until the insane person is re-
stored to sanity such court or judge thereof may,
in its discretion deliver such insane person to the
party giving such bond.
Approved February 7, 1857
[CHAP. XVIII An Act to procure Bust, in Mar
BILE, Of the late Chief Justice John Rulledge
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives Of the United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That the joint committee Of the two
Houses of Congress on the Library be and they are
hereby authorized aud required to contract with
suitable artist for the execution, in marble, and de-
livery in the room of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States, bust of the late Chief Justice John
Rutledge.
Sec. ?. And be it further enacted, That for the
purpose of carrying this act into effect there be and
hereby is appropriated eight hundred dollars to be
paid out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated.
Approved, January 81, 1867.
[CnAP. XXIv.]-An Act making Reappropriation
from the Surplus Fund for the Relief of Leute-
nant John Guest United States Navy, and Others
20 cto1h NV tho Sanoto ond HonSo IF
sentatives of the United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That the sum of one thousand Sc