River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-05


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Approved February 10. 1881. P
Published April s, ISSl.l
CHAPTER 1913.
AN ACT to provide for the humane care Of IL
chronic insane not otherwise provided for
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 INSULT
cient provision has been made for the care and
support Of the insane, in the state hospitals and
and county asylums previously established accord
ing to law said board may file with the secretary
of state list of counties in which no county asY-
lums exist and which in the opinion Of the said
board possess accommodations for the proper
care OF the chronic insane; and thereafter each OF
said counties so named which shall care for its
own chronic insane, under such rules as said
board shall prescribe, the properly verified
certificate Of said board to the secretary of state
shall receive the sum of dollar and fifty cents
per week for each person so cared for and sup
ported, as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. On the first day Of October in each
year the county superintendent OF the poor, or
other officer having charge of the poor Of any
county on said list, claiming compensation tor
the care of its chronic insane, shalt certify to the
secretary Of state the names of all persons nee
essarily cared for and supported by said
county at public cost, the date when said persons
became insane, and the number of weeks each OF
said insane persons were cared for during the pre-
ceding year making affidavit to the same; and il
such certified statement shall be approved by
said board of charities and reform the secretary
Of state shall include the amount which such
county shall be entitled TO receive from the state
under the provisions of this act in the next state
tax and on the first day Of February thereafter
shall place said amount to the credit of said
county.
Section 3. Whenever in the opinion of said
board of charities and reform, any county has not
made suitable provisions for the proper and hui
name care Of either its chronic or acute insane,
the said board may direct the removal Of either
class of said insane to any county asylum, or TO
any other county possessing suitable accommoda-
Uns therefor for care or medical treatment as the
circumstances may seem to require; and said in
sane shall be so removed at the expense of the
county to which they belong.
Section 1. Any county named in the first sec
tion Cf liis act, possessing accommodations for
greater number of the chronic insane than reside
in such COUNTY may receive such additional in
sane persons as the state board of charities and
reform may direct to be transferred thereto, from
counties that do not possess accommodations for
the proper care of their own insane, and may in
clude all such persons in the list of insane certl
fed to the secretary of state as 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 so re-
ceiyed 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
clothing such insane person, shall be charged by
the secretary of state to the county from which
such insane person was sent and shall be included
in the amount charged in the next state tax to
said county.
Section B. Nothing in this act shall be con
strued to entitle any county to compensation for
the care and support Of any person not previous
ly adjudged to be an insane person and properly
committed as such under the laws of this state
relating to the commitment of insane persons to
the hospitals of tins state; nor shall any county
be entitled to compensation for the care and sup
port of any insane person not lawfully and neces'
sarily public charge.
Section6 Sections one thousand five hundred
and two, one thousand five hundred and three,
one thousand five hundred and four and one
thousand five hundred and five of chapter sixty
three, revised statutes of 1873, relating to the re-
lief and support of the poor are hereby declared
to be applicable to insane persons in the same
manner and to the same extent that they now
apply to other classes unable to maintain them
selves, described in section one thousand five
hundred and two of said chapter
Section z. Whenever vacancy shall hereafter
occur in the board of trustees Of any county asy-
IuI0, Dy reason OF resignation OF OIlerWlSe, SUCH
vacancy shall be filed by appointment, in the
same manner and for the same length of time as
is provided in section five hundred and eighty.
one, chapter thirtytwo, revised statutes of 1878,
in respect trustees for the government Of state
hospitals for the insane.
Section S. 1t shall be the duty Of the board of
supe rvisors of any county in this state in which
any county asylum has been established for the
care OF the insane, to make sufficient appropria-
tons quarterly IL advance for the support and
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the estimates of the board Of trustees Of said asy
lum, for an am Junt in the aggregate equal to the
amount per capita provided by law to be paid
to said county by the state, for the support and
maintenance of such asylum with such add
tonal amount as may be necessary for improve
ment of the grounds and buildings. or such lesser
sum as shall be equal to the estimates of said
trustees for the purposes named; and such ap-
preparations so made shall be paid for said pur-
pose. on the order of said board Of trustees, IN
such manner as said board may provide in its by
laws.
Section 8. With the advice and approval Of
the governor the state board of charities and re-
form may contract, Mt price net exceeding four
dollars and twenty-five cents per week with the
trustees of the Milwaukee county asylum for the
insane, for the care and maintenance of convicts
new insane, or who may hereafter become insane,
or for the care and maintenance of any psrsors
who may be acquitted of any criminal charge on
tne ground OF insanity ana WneH any Such per
sons shall have been transferred to such asylum,
they shall be maintained and cared for under
such rules and regulations as the state board Of
charities and reform may prescribe. But in cGse
any such person transferred to said asylum after
conviction from any prison in this state shall be
come sane, said person shall be returned to the
prison from which he was transferred to said
asylum and be subject to the same conditions o.
his original commitment to said prison, time eX
eepted as if he had not been transferred t. sal I
asylum
Section TO- Section six hundred and four h.
revised statutes of 1873, is hereby amended
TO read MS follows As early as practicable in the
month OF July 1881, and in the months of jana
airy and July every succeeding year, the secretary
Of state shall compute the aggregate amount
which any county maintaining county asy lum
for the insane, shall be entitled to receive from
the state on the basis If two dollars and seventy
FIVE cents per week each for all insane persons,
certified by the trustees of said asylum to have
been maintained by such county at public cost
during the six months Immediately preceding the
first days January and July, as aforesaid and be
shall thereupon draw his warrant for such az
gregate 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. Such certificate shall be verified
by the affidavit of the president aad secretary Of
the board Of trustees.
Section IL. The amount due from the state to
tho county of Milwaukee for maintaining its
county assylum from the twenty-sixth day Of
March, $780, TO the first day of January, 1881,
shall be eomputedb by the secretary Of state. ami
paid by the state treasurer, in the manner and TO
the am unit per week, for all the insane persons
maintained by such county at public cost pro-
yided by the last preceding section Of this act.
Section r. The property and estate Of any
insane person, kept il any state or county asylum
or Kept by any county at public charge under the
provisions of this act shall be liable for his sup
port and maintenance and chargeablc for the pay
ment thereof, and upon failure Of the person or
persons having the charge or custody Of such pro-
perty or estate to pay therefrom for such support
and maintenance the board Of trustees Of the hos
pital or asylum, or the chairman Of the board Of
supervisors Of the county furnishing such support,
may apply to the county Judge Of the proper
county TO compel such payment. In cases arising
under the provisions Of this section such county
Judge shall have the jurisdiction and authority |
conferred by chapter sixty-three, OF the reFised |
and shall exercise such JurisdIe- /
ton and authority in the manner proyid-
ed by said chapter and he may enforce Obedi- |
ence to his orders by proceedings az for |
If any order orders made by |
such judge requiring such payment shall not lie /
complied with either Of the officers in this section
designated to-wit: such board Of trustees Of any |
bostital or asylum or the Chairman Of the board /
Of superyisors Of any county, may recover in an
action against the person or persons having the
charge or custody Of such property OF estate
brought in the circuit court against him or them
in his or their representative character. the
amount directed to be paid by such or der or or
derS and any Judgment so recovered may be salts
Red ont Of such property or estate; such court
nav in it's discretion direct that the costs in such