Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-20
Asylum for the COIored Insane
"HD'oRs. FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT,
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
~ - ILL u IL. 90
"RIcHMOND, Va, Dec. II, 1869.
II n..J NJ IOR

"Gsa1oi Orders No 1876
Il Under authority from the Commissioner Of
the Bureau OF Refugees, Freedmen, and Aban
doued Lands, and with the approval Of the Sec
retary of War, the use of the public bulldogs
st Howard Grove Hospital, until the LeRisla-
ture shall otherwise provide, are turned over
to the State OF Virginia for the purpose of es-
tabiisblug temporary unatic asylum. Under
tie same authority, such of the hospital turni
turc, supplies, and other property as may
b. needed, will be transferred to the State at
rs appraised value,
"l The cOlored insane now at the Eastern
!uuatic Asylum viii be transferred, with as
htt,e delay as practicable, to Howard Grove
Hospital and all insane of the same class now
10 confinement in any county or corporation
iii. OF the State viii in like manner be sent to
that hospital
so The white insane now 10 confinement in
any county or cOrplrati)u iall OF the State will
be sent to the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, except
that in the case OF insane patients whose
place OF confinement is more convenient TO
the Western Lunatic Asylum, application
will first be made TO the superintendent
Of that institution, and il there be no va
cancv, will then be sent as above directed to
The Eastern Asylum.
"3 The insane aud INDECENT patients now
I
dents of or properly charge upon the State
will be transferred with as little delay as may
be consistent with safety aud comfort to the
hospital 10 Washington city. The INDECENT
patients belonging to the State will be coutlnu'
"a iu the hospital until proper provision can
be made for them in the counties to which
they properly belong, bur their support Will DC
4 charge upou the treasury OF their respective
counties.
~. To allow time for the necessary arrange
lnents to De made tor Subslstlng the Insane
aud INDECENT patients remaining IN the hosplt
al and those to be received in the interim, the
issue of the usual rations will be continued
until the lst of February. 1870.
So. From and after January /, 1870, and
until the Legislature shall otherwise provide,
Howard Grove Hospital will be regarded as a
State institution, and the laws OF the State IN
relation to lunatic asylums are made appica'
bic thereto. Applications for the admission
Of colored insane will be made TO the officer in
charge thereof, and in the manner directed by
said laws.
"II. 10 provide additional accommodations
for the convicts in the penitenrary the Super
intendent Is authorized 10 remove the female
oouyicts to the building already designated Tor
the separate and exclusive confinement OF
females and to employ such additional watch
men as may be necessary 10 secure their safe
keeping.
Ill The following suIs, or so much there
of rs may be needed, are hereby appropriated
for the purposes hereinafter specified, out OF
any moneys 10 the Treasury of the Common
wealth of Virginia not otherwise appropriated
~. For additional wards and cells. atera-
ton and repairs to adapt Howard Grove Hos
pital to the accommodation OF insane patients,
six thousand eight hundred dollars, to be ex-
pended under the direction of the Governor.
80 For the transportation, maintenance,
and care OF the colored insane OF the State, ten
thousand dollars.
-. For the care and support of INDECENT
patents remaining in the hospital, one thou
sand dollars, to be reimbursed by the counties
to which they properly belong.
'4. For repairs OF the penltentlary proper,
construction Of cells in rooms vacated by female
couyicts, alterations in workshops. and addi
tional fencing at the peulteutary, hve thou'
sand dollars."to be expended under the direc-
ton Of the Governor.
IS. For arrearagts in the support OF the
Deaf and Dumb and Blind Asylum at Staun-
ton. Va, for the fiscal year ending September
20, 1869 $1,000; for addition to the annuity
Of s25 900, the sum Of S5,0OOtor the haf'year
commencing October, |, 1869, and ending
June, 80, 1870. C.,
by command Of Brevet MaJor-GeneFaI
C,aIy Louis V. CAZIRAC,
"Aid de.Csmp, Acting Assistant >,
Adiutapt GenSral.