The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-06-05
CHAPTER 27G.

AN ACT 10 amend section Go of chaptere % ofthe
revised statutes, entitled 'of common schools"
The People Of the State Of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate and assembly, do enact as folI01cS:
Section l. Section sixty-six of chapter % of the
revised statutes of the state of Wisconsin, is here
by amended by adding to the same the following
clause: "ln case the district shall have raised
d tax, and erected or provided for itself a school
house, before the former district shall have raised
and paid over to the treasurer OF the new district,
the amount i'll this section provided to be raised and
puid over, it shall be the dIty of the treasurer of
the new district, in whose hands said amount so
paid over. may at any time remain, to pay over,
demand, the sum paid him, or his predeces-
sor, by the former district, TO the individuals to
whose credit the same would have gone, had said
sum been raised and paid over by the former dis
II let before the said school house erected or
provided by the new new district; and should such
treasurer refuse, on demand by any party entitled
thereto to pay over to him his ust proportion of
said amount the same may be collected in a suit
at law by said party, upon the official bond of
such treasurer
Approved, April 5, 1869.
Published AprH IL, 1862.
CHAPTER 2S5.
AN ACT to amend chapter 2G3 Of the general laws
of 1860, entitled IAN act to provide tor the gov
eminent of the Wisconsin state hospital for the
insane, and for purposes.
The People of the State Of Wisconsin, represented
an Senate and assembly, do enact as tollows
Section L. Chapter 263 of the general la us of 1860
entitled ian act to provide for the government of
the Wisconsin state hospital for the insane and for
other purposes" is hereby amended by striking out
section II of said act, and inserting the following,
! to stand u; Section II. Before an insane
person shall be admitted into the said hospital such
person shall be examined by two physicians of ac.
knowleGged skill and ability in the medical prOfes-
sion residing in this state who shall certify that
after careful examination of such person they are
fully satisfied that said person is insane; and the
Sr'fb hat
Ur mayor Of the village city, in which such per
I son resides, shall certify hat such examination has
been made and shall forward suck certificate. Ssith
the cetifcate of the examining physicians, to the
superintendent Of the hospital The state shall not
be liable tor any expenses for examining patients
and conveying them TO the hospital, or fer rcmov.
ing them from the hospital. But where patient is
! in INDECENT circumstances, application may be
made to the cheirman OF supervisors OF the town OF
to the president mayor OF the village or city in
which such insane person may reside and such
chairman, president or mayor, as the case may be-
shall appoint some suitable person to convey such
patient to the hospital; and all expenses incurred
IN the examination ana conveyance of such insane
person to the said hospital, shall be paid by the
county in which such person resides: prorided
hOweUer, that if any person shall become insane
when in another county in this state than that in
which he resides, such person may be sent to said
hospital from the town city in which lie may be
when taken insane, in the manner in which
he could have been sent from the town or city in
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expenses in examining and conveying such insane
person to the hospital shall be properly chargeable
to the county in which such person resides; and 1r0
Uide8 FURTHER that if any female patient shall give
brth TO living child, while such female is an in
mate of the said hospital and if she has not been
an inmate of the said hospital for more than nne
months such child shall be Immediately removed
from the hospital by the friend of the mother OF
by the county in which the mother resided before
being sent to the hospital But if such child is net
so removed, Immediately after the clerk of the
board ofsupervisors has been notified by the super
intendent to make such removal the said superin-
tendent shall cause suitable provision to be made
for the care and comfort of such child, and shall
charge all accruing expenses county in which the
mother resided before being sent TO the hospital
| And if any such county shall neglect TO pay the
! expense Of taking care of and supporting such
child, the said superintendent shall annually in
/ Guide the amount due ttUm such county for such
purpose in the report when he is required t. make
TO the secretary of state, by section of this act
which shall be collected and paid out as therein
provided: prOUidsd that when an insane person is
sent to said hospital from The county jail or poor
| house of any county, the sheriff of such county or
superintendent of such poor house, the case may
be, may perform all the duties required to be per
formed by the chairman of supervisors or mayor OF
city, when patients are sent TO said hospital from
! such town CITY,
! See , Add the following to section 3 of the act
70 which this is emendatory: "proUided that the
expense ofremoving from the hospit such INDECENT
insane person shall be paid from the county treas
urv and if the said chairman, mayor, president
or any other person whose duty it was to remove
insane person from the hospital, when so notifi
e by the superintendent, shall unredsonably neg
lect to remove such person, AFTER notice as afore
said, the said superintendent shall cause such per-
son to be conveyed TO and lodged in the county
poor house OF such county or IN the county jail IL