Daily globe., 1879-04-11

an ACT to amend section three (s) chapter 10
of the general laws of 1874, as amended by
section four ~ of chapter a of the general
Laws of 1877, relating to the removal of in
sane and imbecile persons.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State OF
Minnesota:
Section I. That section number three (3) Of
chapter nineteen (19) Of the general laws Of
the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four
(1874), as amended by chapter forty-two (42) Of
hundred and seventy-seven Q877), be amended
80 as to read as follows: The Governor shall
appoint commission of three doctors. one Of
whom shall be member of the State Board Of
Health, who shall serve for period Of two
years or until their successors shall be appoint
ed, who shall constitute commission whose
duty 1T shall be to visit the several Minnesota
hospitals for the insane at least once every six
months of each year. or upon the written re-
quest of the Governor of the State, and inspect
said hospitals as to the sanitary condition and
the general management of the same, and also
to o. examine into the mental and physical con-
dition of the patients therein, frequency, man
ner and cause of punishment, elopements
deaths, and such other matters as may fall
within the scope of q thorough hospital inspec-
tion, and report in detail to the Governor with
in ten days after each and every such inspec-
tl"n Is made. Said commissioners shall receive
their actual expenses and no more, for which
the Auditor of State shall draw his warrant or
the State Treasurer.
Sec. q. Should the said commission find,
upon visiting either of the said hospitals, any
patient or patients whose insanity they have
reason to doubt, said commission shall have the
authority to remand such patient or patients to
the probate court from which they were COM
mitted respectively, there to be detained q
| reasonable time under proper surveillance,
when, If such judge shall be satisfied of his OF
her sanity, he or she shall be discharged by
order OF said court; otherwise he or she shall
be re-cOmmltted to the hospital for the insane.
Provided, that said commission shall have nc
authority to discharge any patient committed
to either OF the.insane asylums in this State
and charged with crime.
Sec. 8. 1t shall further be the duty Of said
commission to select from the patients of the
insane hospitals such idiotic and feeble minded
children and youths who, in their opinion, are
| proper subjects for training and instruction
and transfer the same to the trustees of the
asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind at Eari.
| hault.
Sec. 4. The trustees of the asylum for the
deaf, dumb and blind are hereby authorized to
receive such weak-minded and idiotic children
and youths as may be sent them under the
provisions of this act, and make provision fol
the maintenance of said children and youths.
and are required to lease for term not exceed.
ing two years proper building or rooms fol
the same, and to provide a competent teacher
and attendants for said children and youths
and to establish such rules and regulations A.
may be necessary for the instruction, training
and government of said children and youths.
Sec. 8. In case any children and youths SC
received shall be found, upon trial, incapable
of receiving any benefit from such instruction
! and training, or when in the opinion of the
superintendent of said asylum it shall be bette,
for the welfare of any child or youth to be re
moved from said asylum, the said superinten
dent shall have full power to remand any
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