Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
published April 9, 1881
CHAPTER o33

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Whenever it shall appear to the state
board of charities and reform that insufficient pro-
vision has been made for the and support of the
insane in the state hospitals and county asylums
previously established according to law, said board
may file with the secretary OF state list of counties
In which no county asylums exist, and which in the
opinion of the said board possess accommodations
for the proper of the chronic nsane and there
after each of said counties named which shall care
for its own chronic INSANE under such rules as said
board shall prescribe, on the properly verified GER
ticate Of said board TO the secretBry of state shall
receive the Of one dollar and fifty cents DER
week for each person so cared for and supported an
hereinafteI provided.
Section q On the first day Of October in each wear
the county superintendent of the poor other Off
having charge OF the poor any county on sa16
list claiming compensation for the care of its
chronic insane shall certify the secretary of state
the names OF all persons necessarily cared for and
when said persons became insane, and the number
OF weeks each of said insane persons were cared for
during the preceding year, making affidavit to the
same; and If such certified statement shall be ap-
proved by said board of charities and reform the
secretary of state shall inclAds the amount which
such county shah be entitled to recsivo from the
state under the provisions of this act, in the next
state tax on the first day of February thereafter
shall place said amount TO the credit of said county
Section s. Whenever in the opinion of said board
board of charities and reform, any county has not
made suitable provisions for the proper and humane
of either its chronic or acute insane the said
board may direct the either class of said
insane to any county asylum, to any other county
possessing suitable accommodations therefor for
medical treatment as the circumstances NAV
seem to require and said insane shall be 80 removed
u the expense of the county to which they belong
Section l. Any county named in the first section Of
his act, possessing accommodations for a greater
nu1n Der or the chronic insane than reside in such
county, may receive such additional insane persons
rs the state board of charities and reforms NAV
direct to be transferred thereto from counties that
DO not possess accommodations for the proper care
Vt their own insane, ana may include all such per-
sons in the list Of insane certified to the secretary Of
state, provided in the second section Of this act
and shall receive from the secretary of state credit
to the amount of three dollars per week for each
such person received and cared for from another
county, and for the amount necessarily expended for
clothing said person. one dollar and half of the
aforesaid amount of three dollars per week, and the
amount actually expended by such county for cloth
ing such insane person, shall be charged by the sec
Rotary OF state to the county from which such insane
person sent and shall be included in the amount
charged in the next state tax to said county.
Section s. Nothing in this act shall be construed TO
ent1tle any county TO compensation Tor the care and
support of any person no. previously adjudged to
be an insane person and properly committed such
under the laws Of this state relating to the commit
ment of insane persons to theshoGtals of this state
Nor shall any county be entitled to compensation for
the care and support of any insane person not law
fnlly and necessarily public charge.
Section Sections one thousand, five hundred and
two, one thousand, five hundred and three,
thousand, five hundred and four and one thousand,
five hundred and five Of chapter sixtythree revised
statutes OF 1873, relating to the relief and support Of
the poor, hereby declared 10 be applicable to IT,
sane persons in the same manner and to the same
extent that they apply TO other classes unable to
maintain themselves, described in section thous-
and, five hundred and two Of said chapter.
Section z. Whenever vacancy shall hereafter oc-
in the board OF trustees Of any county asylum,
by reason Of resignation otherwise, such vacancy
shall be filled by appointment, in the same manner
and for the same length Of time as is now provided
in section five hundred and eighty-one, chapter
thirtytwo revised statutes Of 1878, In respect to
trustees, for the government Of state hospitals for
the insane. 81
Section 8. 1t shall be the duty of the board of
supervisors Of any county in this state in which any
county asylum has been established for the care Of
the insane, to make sufficient appropriations quar-
terly in advance for the support and maintenance Of
said asylum, in accordance with the estimates of the
board OF trustees of said asylum for amount in
the aggregate equal to the amount per capita pro-
vded by Law to be paid to said county by the stats
for the support and maintenance OF such asylum,
with such additional amount az may be necessary
such lesser shall be equal to the estimates Of
said trustees for the purposes named; and such ap-
propriations 30 made shall be paid for said purpose
On the order OF said board of trustees, In such
ner as said board may provide in its by-lawA.
Section 9. WITH the advice and approval Of the
governor the state board of charities and reforms
may contract, At price not exceeding four dollars
and twenty-five cents per week, with the trustees Of
the Milwaukee county asylum for the insane, for the
who may hereafter become insane, or for the care
and maintenance of any persons who may be acquit-
tad of any criminal charge the ground Of insan-
hy; and when any such persons shall have been
Transferred to such asylum, they shall be main
tanned and cared for under such rules and regula-
tons the state board Of charities and reform may
prescribe. But in any such person transferred
TO said asylum after conviction from any prison In
this state, shall become sane, said person shall be
ferred to said asylum, and be subject to the same
conditions Of his original commitment to said prison
time excepted, - hs had not been Transferred tc
said asylum.
Section TO- Section ak hundred and four /, 10
vtses statutes Of 1878, in hereby amended to
sssd as fonowE As early - practicable in the
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and July every succeeding year the secretary of STATE
shall compute the aggregate amount which any
shall be entitled 70 receive from the state ON the
baSis OF two dollars and seyentyf cents per weel
EACH for all insane persons certified by tho trustees
Of said asylum to have been maintained by such
county at public cost during the six months inme-
diatey preceding the first days Of January and July
rs Aforesaid; and he shall thereupon draw his war
county, and shall deliver said warrant to ths
state treasurer who sha thereupon place the amount
Of said warrant to the credit Of said county ON the
books of the treasury Such certificate shall be ver-
fed by the affidavit of the president and secretary OF
the board Of trustees.
Section IL. The amount due from the state 10 TIKI
county of Milwaukee for maintaining its county,
asylum from the twentysxth day Of March, 1880, b
the first day Of January 1881, shall be computed by
the secretary Of state and paid by the state treasurer
the insane persons maintained by euch county ..
public cost provided by the last preceding section Of
this net.
person, kept in any state county asylum, or kept
by any county at pubic charge under the provisions
OF this act shall be liable for s support and mainte
nance and chargeable for the payment thereof, and
upon failure OF the person persons having the
charge OF custody of such property o. estate to pay
therefrom for such support and maintenance, thu
board of trustees Of the hospital or asylum or the
chairman OF the board of supervisors of the county
furnishing such support, may apply to the counts
judge Of the proper county to compel such payment
In arising under the provisions of this sectioy
such county judge shall have the Jurisdiction and
authority conferred by chapter sixty. three of the
revised statutes, and shall exercise such risdic.ion
and authority in the manner provided BY said chan
ter and he may enforce obedience to his orders bx
proceedings as for contempt. II any order o,
orders made by such judge requiring such payment
shall not be compiled with, either Of the oicers in
this section designated, towit: such board of txps
tees of any hospital or asylum the chairman of ths
board or supervisors or any county, may recover =
an action against the person or persons having the
charge custody OF such property estate brougb
In the circuit court against him or them in his q,
their representative character the directed t.
be paid by such order orders and any Judgment 81
recovered may be satisfied out of such property 0,
estate such court may in its discretion, direct thai
fhe costs in such action, if the plaintiff recover
judgment be paid out Of such property estate OF