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Supplement to an act entitled "a further sup
plement to the act entitled An act to provide
additional accommodations for the insane OF
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thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
+ /. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State Of New Jersey, That the
managers of the State Asylum for the Insane at
Morristown, New Jersey shall have the power,
and it is hereby declared to be the duty OF said
managers, to appoint medical director of said
asylum and so many assistant physicians as they
to the rules regulations and bylaws prescribed
from time to time by said managers for the con-
troll and good government of said asylum.
q And be it enacted, That the medical director
so appointed shall have charge direction and con-
troll Of all the patients and of all persons engaged
in the care of patients in the asylum, with the
powers and subject to the rules, regulations and
bylaws prescribed, or hereafter to be prescribed
. and established. by the said managers and he
shall perform all such duties as shall be assigned
not ASSIGN to him any duty Which does rot relate
to the care management and treatment Of pa
tients, the direction, and control of assistant
physicians nurses and attendants of patients
g. And be it enacted, That the said managers
are empowered, and is hereby declared to be
their duty, to appoint a steward or warden of
said asylum, who shall be the general managerof
furniture. fixtures and stock thereto belonging,
and shall perform such other duties as shall be
assigned to him by said managers. subject to the
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after to be prescribed, by said managers; and be-
fore entering upon the duties of his office he shall
execute a bond to the State of New Jersey with
sufficient sureties, to be approved by said man
agers in such penal sum not less than three thou
sand dollars, as said managers may from time to
time require conditioned that he shall and will
faithfully perform the duties of his Office and pay
over and account for all moneys, goods and chat
tells belonging to said asylum that shall come
into his hands or custody, which bond shall be
recorded in a hook to be provided for that pur-
or1d ant N q n QOQrc in
said asylum; and thereupon said bond shall be
fled In the Office Of the secretary of state and re-
corded inthe same manner as the official bonds
Of other state officers provided, nevertheless,
that the person who is now acting as steward of
said asylum, shall continue to perform the duties
OF said office of steward or warden under this
act until removed, or successor is appointed by
the managers of said asylum. nav .7ltc VI. II
And be It enacted, That it shall also be theduty
of said steward or warden annually to make an
approximate estimate and detailed statement in
writing of the amounts of money required for
the support and maintenance of said asylum and
of the amount required from the state, including
all salaries and supplies of every kind for the
next ensuing fiscal year, beginnil g on the first
day of November next and to submit the same to
said managers on or before the first Thursday of
October of each year, and said managers shall
annex the same to their annual report with such
comments thereon as they may deem advisable.
s. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of said managers to appoint an expert accountant
or book-keeper, and such assistant accountants
and book-keepers as may be necessary to keep full
and accurate accounts of all business tra1sac-
lions in any way connected with said asylum.
6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of said managers to appoint storekeeper for
said asylum, who shall receipt for and be charged
with all supplies furnished to said asylum, and
he shall take vouchers for all supplies by him
distributed and he shall perform such other du-
ties as may be assigned to him by said managers,
subject to such rules, regulations and bylaws as
said managers may from time to time prescribe.
T. And be it enacted, That the bylaws pre-
scribed, or which may hereafter be prescribed, by
and agents Of said asylum, and such bylaws
shall not be suspended, altered or repealed, ex-
cept at a regular meeting of said board of mana
gers and by the consent of majority of all mem
bers of said board.
S And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed and that this act shall take effect imme-
diately.
Approved April 7, 1885.