The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-06-23

VIZ tAne uokuahy cApiolcu III tuo
duties of their Office. They shall
also be allowed their necessary and
actual expenses, not including char
Sses for board. the clerk in addition
to what he is entitled to as commits
,sioner, shall be allowed one half as
smuch moro, for making the required
record entries in all cases Of inquest,
and of meetings Of the board for any
purpose, and the fling ofany pagers
required to be filed. He shail also
be allowed twenty FIVE cents for each
notice cr process given or issued
aador seal as herein required. The
examining physician shall be entitled
to tho same compensation as com.
missioner, and to mileage at the rate
of ten cents per mile each way. The
sheriff shall be allowed for his per.
soma! services in conveying d patient
to the hesnital and returning There
from at the rate Of three dollars per
day for the time necessarily and
actually employed and mileage the
same as is allowed in other cases
and for other services the same fees
as tor like services in other cases.
Witnesses shall DO entitled to the
same fees as witnesses ia the circuit
court. The compensation and ex-
penses provided for above shall be
allowed and paid out Of the county
treasury in the usual manner
Whenever the commissioners issue
their warrant for the admission of q
person to the hospital, and funds to
pay the expenses thereof are needed
in advance, they shall estimate the
probable expense of conveying such
person to the hospital, including the
necessary assistance, and not ,nclu-
ding the compensation allowed the
sheriff and on such estimate certifi-
ed by the clerk, the auditor Of the
county snail issue his order on the
treasury of the county in favor Of
the sheriff. or other persons entrusted
with tht execution Of such warrant !;
the sheriff or other persons executing
such warrant, shall accompany his
retu'i. with . statementof the expen
scs incurred: and the excess or def.
cheney may be deducted from or
added to his compensation, as the
case may be. If funds are not SO
advanced, such expenses shall DO
certified and paid in tho manner
above prescribed on the return Of the
warrant. When the commissioners
order the return Of patient, com.
pensation and expenses shall be in
like manner allowed.
Sec. 10. Any officer required as
herein to perform any act and any
person accepting an appointment I'M
der the provisions of this act. and
wilfnlly refusing or neglecting to per.
form his duty, as herein prescribed,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, be-
sides being liable to an action for
damages.
Sec. so. When, in the case of any
proceedings i'll court, it would other
wise be necessary to serve personally
any person who is a patient in the
hospital, with notice or process of
anr kind and when, in the opinion of
the superintendent, such personal
services would injurionsly affect such
patient, tho superintendent shall &C
knowledge service of the same in
behalf of the patient, setting forth in
connection such opinion, by endorse
ment to that effect upon the notice or
other process, or copy thereof, and
the same shall stand in lieu OF per.
sonal service.
Sec. 81. The warrant OF the com.
missioner ofinsanity, authorizing the
admission of any person to the hos
pital as patient, accompanied by a
physicians certificate, as herein pro-
vided, to operate to shield the supor-
rintendent and other officers of the
hospital against all liability to pro-
sccution of any kind, on account of
the reception or detention of such
person in the hospital; provided such
detention shall be otherwise in &C.
cordance with the laws and bylaws
regulating it's management.
fl Sec. 50. When the superintendent
of the hospital, in obedience toa SUBJ
p1ena, attends any court out of the
county in which the hospital is stu
ated, rs witness for either party,
in the case of a person on trial for O
criminal offeIse, and the question of
the sanity of such person is raised,
he shall be allowed, on such account,
his necessary and actual expenses
and such per diem as is allowed to
other witnesses, and such expenses
and per diem shall be paid BY the
State. When compelled so to attend
in civil cases, he shall be entitled to
the same compensation, to be paid by
the party requiring his attendance.
Sec. 50. The superintendent shall
af1ix the seal Of the hospital to any
notice, order of discharge or report,
or other paper required to be given
by him or issued.
Sec. 81. The term ssinsane'' as used
in this includes every species of in
sanity or mental arrangement. The
tern idiot" is restricted to persons
foolish from birth, one supposed to be
naturally without mind. No idiot
shall be admitted into the hospital.
Sec. 55. The trustees Of the hospi-
tai shall provide for furnishing the
commissioners OF the county entitled
IN send patients to the hospital with
such blanks for warrants, certificates
&c, as will enable them with rcgu-
larity and facility to comply with
the provisions OF the law; and also
with copies of the bylaws of the
hospital, when printed.
Sec. Sc. AS soon as may be after
The appointment ola superintendent
of tho Independence hospital, tho
e1perintendents of the two hospitals
and tho Governor of tho State, shall
meet aud adopt such regulations as
they may deem expedient in regard
70 what patients or class Of patients
shall be admitted to or provided for
IN the respective hospitals; or from
what portions of the State patients,
or certain classes of patients, may be
sent to each or either hospital, and
hey may change such regulations
rom time to time q they may deem
TEST; and they shall make such pub
iication of these regulations as they
nay deem necessary for the inform
asion OF these Interested. The regu-