Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-19
COUNTY JUDGES.
State Association Concludes it's
Work and Adjourns.
TO MEET AT FORT WORTH IN 'e2
The Most Important Action Taken Regarding
the Care of lunaticS-A Protest.
Mismanasement and Lack of Room-A
Number of Changes in Present Laws
RecOmmended-Officer for the
Ensuing Year.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
CORsICASA. Ten, June 1S.-When the
County judges association convened this
| morning the discussion of the care of
lunaticS was resumed. II was manifest
that legislation is needed, and should be
speedy, toward rectifying the glaring
wrongs now heaped upon the host Of I'M
fortunateS in the state bereft of mind and
the relief and comfort proceeding from
charity. Mercy, il seems. is outraged by
reconsideration, and the euviable glory that
should belong 10 the state on account of her
great wealth and incompatible resources
and Il ludicious and beneficial appropria-
ton of the same is sorrowfully tainted by
the deaf ear which has been turned against
the appeals OF The states demented wards.
The discrimination between lunati's,
which inadequate facilities compel the asy
lum superintendent to observe now. Is dis
graceful, Withholding, as il does. care ana
protection from incurable lunatics, and
giving preference to those whose misfor-
tune is a late or durable affliction. thereby
giving to the more piJiable cases less pity
and recognition, and converting them into
riffraff to DE buffeted about by ungrateful
or impecunious kin, or by Discrimination
or impossibility ON the part of their county
to provide for them. In view of these facts
the permanent committee of the association
introduced this morning the following reSo-
buttons. which were unanimously adopted,
and will be the most important action taken
at this meeting:
Whereas, it is lamentable fact that n
large proportion of the insane population
of the state OF Texas is at present dragging
out miserable existence in the county
iails and poorhouses of the several counties,
the asylum facilities for the care of these
unfortunates being totally inadequate to
the present demands, and alarming also,
hp n
IS considered: and
Whereas, there is no provision now made
by law for the care by the state of IDIOTS
and mental imbecile and
Whereas, by reason of the inadequate
asylum facilities forced preference is
given to cases of insanity OF recent origin
which amounts TO practical exclusion
from the asylums of chronic and hopeless
cases of insanity; therefore, be it
Resolved by the County judges aSSocia-
ton of the state of Texas: l. That in the
opinion of this association an imperative
demand exists for the immediate enlarge
ment of the capacity of the insane asylums
Of the state, to the end that the insane,
many of whom have for months been Ian
gushing in our county jaiis without hope of
ameliorating their wretched condition, may
be transferred to the aSylumS where they
can receive the benefit of enlightened Scien-
tific treatment.
p That it is the duty of the state to pro-
vide suitable and efficient asylum facilities
for idiots and mental imbecileS, where they
may be safely restrained and humanely
treated.
3. And whereas, we believe it impracti-
cable and more expensive upon the whole
for each county to make suitable provisions
for maintaining and keeping its own idiots
and such lunatics who are now received by
the asylums than for the state 10 make
GENERAL DrOViSjOn for ALL of these wards of
the state: be it further
Resolved. that article 1914 of the Revised
Statutes of the state of Texas should be SO
amended, as that division 8 of said article,
in so far as the same requires county COM
missiOners' courts to provide for supporting
and keeping such idiots and lunatics as can
not be admitted into the asylums, De re-
pealed.
l. Be it further resolved that article 81 of
the Revised Statutes be so amedded as to
allow no discrimination in our asylum man
agement in favor of one class of patients
over another, but that asylum superin-
tendents be required 20 receive all lunatics,
whether the cases may be of chronic or re-
cent date, durable or incurable, in the order
of their respective applications.
D. Be it further resolved that should there
be q special session OF the twenty-secOnd
legislature the governor of the state be
urged to embrace in his call therefor action
10 tfleS6 ludbttfS- anu uildI our
representatives in the legislature be
earnestly requested to take action thereon.
Respectfully submitted,
W. A. Bramlette, Fannin county; w. d.
Harris, Tarrant county; B. +. Adams, Pre-
sidio county: W. H. Nall, Hardin county;
J. II. Rice, Navarro county.
The question of roads and bridges was
deferred until next meeting, when it will
be given precedence overall all other mat
tiers. Under a discussion of probate mat
ters the following resolutions, looking to-
wards a change in the present laws. were
introduced and referred: That article
2l43 of the r. s., relative to the final set
Element and distributions of estates be so
amended as to authorize ancillary admins
traitors to turn over the estate remaining in
his hands to the principal administrator or
executor, and upon filing his receipt there
for. TO be finally discharged.
Also, resolved that we request the leg
islature to so amend article 2602. Revised
Statutes. that hereafter the same shall
read ''Article 1902: The guardian of an es-
tate shall, unless otherwise ordered by the
county judge, which may be done in estates
less than $500, return to the court showing,
first, any property that may have come to
his knowledge, etc, etc
Also. that the law be so amended as to
provide for the speedy and economical set
Element of small estates.
The following change in the laws was
suggested in resolution by Judge Hays of
Bee county: That the law be so amended
that all the notices of sherihs' and con-
stables sales, notices in probate and any
other notices now required by law to be
posted shall be published in newspaper
when there is a newspaper in the county,
The following officers were elected FOR the
ensuing year: President, S. r. Blake,
Austin county; secretary, 5. r. Scott,
Falls county: treasurer, ". R., Hays, Bee
county. /
The association will meet in Fort Worth
on the first Wednesday after the third