The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-10-28

prisonmen: in the county jail not less
than three months ror more than one
year, or by fac Of no. less than cue
hundred nor moro than 1--WE hundred
dollars. which shall be rec vered by anv
cour: having jurisdiction aud anv mo-
ney 50 received over AMI above actual
costs incurred by the county shall be by
tie county authorities paid into the
common school fund OF said county. No
person 50 confined IL the hospital FOX
insane shall be deemed to have gained
or lost residence or settlement: in the
meaning Of .hi. act.
Sec- i2 Nou-re:iien,s Of this Terri
tory. c1nTeycd or coming herein while
Insane. shall no. be committed 10 or
supported in the hospital for insane of
this Territory: Preeidee!. That tbi. pros
hIbi:iol shall not prevent the commit
.ncft 0: PERSONS stricken with insanity
Willie travelling 10 the tee, poIarv care
OF SAID hospital. OF those temporarily
sCjoarA!r II TIL, TerritoIs. or saillrs
artAcke. win insanity upon the high
seas, AMI first arriving thereafter in
some port within this Territory Pro-
,
iudigeLt and have no friends within the
purview of the laws of this Territory.
all the expenses Of committing ard send
ing to the hospital shall be at the ex-
pensc OF the county from which they
are sent, and the expense incurred in
the supper: and maintenance Of such
patient while at the hospital shall de-
volve upon the Territory.
Sec IS The Territory shall have the
same recourse to recover the expense OF
maintaining and supporting patients st
thu hospital for Insane as is provided
for counties il section of this
get.
Sec. II. No case Of idiocy, imbecili'y.
harmless chronic mental unsoundness or
acute mania a potu shall be committed
10 the hospital for insane. and no such
case now admitted TO said hospital shall
be retained at tho expense Of the Terri
tory Prorided, hoacerer. That if there is
sufficient room at the hospital for their
accommodation without doing injustice
to other patients. such persons may be
received and maintained at the expense
OF relatives. coming within the purview
of the laws Of the Territory, or, if there
are 10 relatives Of sufficient ability to
meet such expense. then they shall in
oil cases be maintained at the expense
Of the county from which such persons
were committed: Prorided, Tha. after
a careful examination Of the case Of any
person now admitted to said hospital. or
OF any who in future may be commit
ted, If 1t shall be satisfactorily ascer.
taired by the medical superintendent
that such party comes under the rule Of
exemptions provided for in this section.
he shall at once notify the judge OF pro
bate Of the county from which such
person was committed or of which he
is a resident. And whenever, in the
opinion of the medical superintendent.
it may be cxpedient, he shall have the
authority to discharge such person and
return him or her to the county Of which
the patty is q resident, at the expense
OF said county.
Sec. 10. Any moneys found on the
person Of an individual at the time of
arrest shall be 50 certified by the Judge
OF probate and sent with such person to
the hospital for insane and there deliv-
cred to the medical uperintendent. who
shall deliver the sane to the Territorial
treasurer to be applied to the payment
Of the expenses OF such patient while
in the hospital.
Sec. l6, Any patient may be removed
at any time by the relatives or friends
Of such patient on duly executing q
| bond with sufficient suretles before the
judge Of p'oba.e of the county from
which said patient was committed.
guaranteeing the peaceablc behavior.
safe custody and comfortable mainten-
tenance OF such person without further
public charge. The bond must he filed
with the judge Of probate and certi
fled copy presented to the medical SUI
perlnterdcnt.