The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-12-13
No. SAN ACT RELATING TO INE
BRIATES.


10 Is hereJy enacted By The General Assembly
Of the state of Vermont
SEC. /. When any person through excess
sive drinking shall become an inebriate, or
shall become so addicted to to the Incorporate
use of narcotics or stimulants as to have lost
the power of self-control, the court of probate
for the district in which he resides, shall, on
application of the selectmen of the town
where he resides, or of any of his relatives,
and after such reasonable notice to him as it
may prescribe, make due inquiry, and if it
shall lind him to be an habitual drunkard, or
so far addicted to the Incorporate use of mar
cOtics or stimulants as to have lost the power
Of self-Control, shall order him to be taken to
any institution in this state, where he. will
receive special treatment for such condition.
SEC. 2. No person shall be admitted to
such institution or detained therein as a pa
tient or inmate, except upon certificate,
under oath, of two respectable, practiCing
physicians, residents of the town or county
where such inebriate resides, If resident of
this state, but if a resident of any other state,
then the certificate shall be given by two
physicians who reside in this state. This
certificate shall be given after personal ex-
animation made within one week of the time
Of commitment, and shall state that they
have found such person to be an inebriate
under the sense of this act and shall state
their reasons for so adjudging such person.
The two physicians making such certificate
shall not be members of the same firm, nor
relatives of said inebriate, nor officer in the
insti5 whero such persons are received
for treatment; and such certificate shall be
presented to the proper officer of the institu-
ton at the time when such person is pre-
scented for admission as patient.
SEC. 3. ANY physician who shall sign such
a certificate without making such previous
examination shall, if the person is admitted
to an institution upon such certificate, be
fined not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred dollars.
SEC. 4. A person admitted to an institu-
ton agreeably to the provisions of this act
shall be subject to the rules, sanitary, moral
and medical treatment OF such institution,
until properly discharged by the officers Of
such institution or removed by the person
placing him there, or otherwise discharged.
SEC. 3. The supervisors of the insane shall
exercise over all persons admitted TO any in
stitution under the provisions of this act the
same supervision and power which they now
have over the insane. Any officer Of any in
stitution who receives and detains any in
ebriate in such institution contrary to the
provisions of this act, shall pay fine OF not
exceeding three hundred dollars.
SEC. 6. This act shall not be construed to
have any reference to any law relating to the
insane.
Approved November 26, 1888.
No. SAN ACT AMENDING NO. A
OF THE ACTS OF 1886.
II is hereby enacted By Tie General Assembly
Of the State Of Vermont:
SEC. /. No. A of the acts of 1856 is
hereby amended by striking out the words
" forty-eight," in the second line, and sub
stituting therefor the words, "ffty-one."
Approved November q, 1888.