River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-04-25

governor, the conditlon ana wants OF said
| asylum, and also to the State board OF chart
! ties and reform, full and detailed statement
| of all receipts and expenditures on account
| thereof, and all other facts concerning the
management and administration of said
| asylum.
Section 5. Upon the completion OF said
county asylum, and the organization Of said
/ board of trustees, as hereinbefore provided,
said board is hereby authorized to trans
| fer to said county asylum, all inmates Of the
/ State institutions for the insane committed
/ froLi or belonging to said county, held as
chronic or ineurable,an al insane inmates of
/ the poor house of said county, and all other
persons belonging to or residing In said eoun-
| ty, and adjudged TO be insane according to the
| laws of this State; and said board of trustees
may thereafter receive into said asylum, any
/ inebriate person, and all persons belonging to
said county adjudged to be insane under the
| lave of this State. Provided, however, that
whenever any insane person, committed to
| said county asylum according to the provisions
| of this act, shall be found TO belong to the
class defined as acute insane and to require
permanent and special treatment for the pur-
poses or cure, said person may be transferred
| to the State hospitals for the insane, and COM
mitted therein, in the same manner and on the
same conditions as other patients are COM
mitted to said State hospital.
| Section 6. Said board of trustees OF said
county asylum may also receive into said
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may prescribe, any inebriate person, and any
| person adjudged TO be insane, according to the
| laws of this State, not chargeable to any coun-
| ty in this State, for care and treatment at
private charge; provided, that the care and
| treatment of such person shall be undertaken
and maintained without extra expenses to the
State, or the county in which said asylum is
| located.
| Section Z. Said board of trustees of said
county asylum may also receive into said
,Aor latt
| may prescribe, any inebriate or in
| sane person, belonging to any
| other county in the State, net ad
mtted to the State institutions for the insane,
| for want of room or other reason; and such in
sane person so admitted shall be subject to
! the same provisions of law as insane persons
belonging to the county in which said asylum
is located; provided, that the cost of MAIN
tanning such inebriate or insane person shall
be apportioned to the county to which such
insane person belongs, for the benefit OF the
county in which said county asylum Is located,
in the same manner, and to the same extent
that the inmates of State institutions are
chargeable to the counties to which they be-
long under the laws of this State, and the
balance of such cost to the State, in the same
manner as other inmates of said county asylum
are chargeable to the State under the pro-
visions OF this act.
Section S. The cost of the buildings for any
such county asylum, as provided in this act,
shall not exceed the amount determined upon
and appropriated therefor by the board of
supervisors ofany countyin which said asylum
is located.
Section g. Whenever any county as afore-
said shall have completed the construction of
proper buildings for the purposes, and accord
ing to the conditions of this act, it shall be The
duty of the trustees of such asylum to certify
such fact to the Secretary of State, together
with statement of the cost OF such build
ings; whereupon the Secretary of State, in
consideration OF the amounts previously paid
by said county in the construction OF the
State institutions for the insane, shall issue to
said county his lawful warrant upon the State
treasurer for the payment and return to said
county of an amount equal to one half the cost
of said buildings for said county asyiums;
provided, that the amount so paid to any such
county shall in no case exceed the sum OF
three hundred dollars per capita for the whole
number of insane persons such asylum Is de-
signed to accomn odate and provide for, such
number to be estimated and determined BY
the governor and board of charities and re-
form.
Section 10. The entire cost of constructing
and maintaining any such county asylum
shall devolve upon the county in which the
asylum is located, except as provided In this
act, and nothing in this act shall be deemed
to exempt said county from the payment OF
its proportion of the total cost of maintaining
the State institutions for the insane already
existing; provided, however, that any county
maintaining and supporting its own insane
according to the provisions of this act, in con-
sideration thereof shall be entitled to receive
therefor the compensation hereinafter pro-
vided in this act.
Section IL. During the month OF January
| in each year, it shall be the duty of the Secre
| tary of State to compute the average cost per
week per capita, of maintaining the insane In
| mates of the State institutions for the insane
during the preceding fiscal year, for such pulr-
! pose assuming the total cost OF such inmates
| to be equal to the aggregate amount OF pay.
ments from the State treasury, on account OF
| legslatviel appropriations and not including
payment by counties, on any account, in be-
half of such institutions, during SAID nscal
wear; and having thus aScertalned Inc cost
per week per capita OF maintaining the IN
mates of said State Institutions, for the pre-
ceding fiscal year, he shall compute the ag-
gregate amount to which any such county
maintaining its wn insane shall be entitled
to receive, on the basis of eighty per centum
of an equal amount per capita per week, for
all the insane persons maintained by sucn
county at public cost, and shall thereupon
draw his warrant upon the State treasurer for
such aggregate amount, in behalf OF SAID
county, and shall deliver said warrant TO the
State treasurer, who shall thereupon place
the amount Of said warrant to the credit OF
said county, on the books of the treasury.
Section u. All laws of this state reiatlng
to the government and management OF State
institutions for the insane, or to the appoint.
ment duties terms of office, proceedings ana
powers of trustees therefor, now existing, or
hereafter enacted, including the provisions oil
this act, are hereby declared to be in full force
and effect as to any county asylum for the IN
sane organized under this act, so lar as tne
same shall be applicable, and In harmony with
the provisions of this act, relating 10 county
asylums
Section Is. Any county in this State, now
owning q suitable and sufficient site ana
buildings for the care and maintenance OF It's
own insane, may organize and maintain
county asylum under the provisions OF this
act. with the previous consent and approval
of the governor and State board OF charities
and reform, as provided in other cases by this
act. but without cost to the state for such SITE
or buildings, provided that nothing in this act
be construed to prevent any county IN TINS
| State which has buildings erected Tor the &C
cemmodation OF the insane, from enlargihg
! the same or from erecting new ones on any
grounds belonging to the county or upon any
Site the county board Of supervisors may by
resolution determine.
Section IA All acts and parts OF acts IN
consistent with this act are hereby repeated
Section Is. There is hereby annually APP
propriated from the State treasury, out OF any
money not otherwise appropriated, a suflcleht
sum for the purposes of this act.
Section 10. This act shall tako effect ana DC
in force from and after its publication.
Approved March 20, 1878
Published April 10 1873.