The age-herald., 1900-12-16
GENERAL LAWS.
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be recovered from them by due process of law In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at -, this - day of -, A. D., 19-. GA. B.), Judge of Probate of - County and State
 of Alabama.
 26 The judge of probate of each county fin the State, from time to time, at his own instance, and at any time If his attention is drawn to 1t by the superintendent or other party, shall investigate the financial standing of any indigent patient in the hospital from his county, and If he find him Cor her) able to pay for his Cor heD support in the Insane Hospital, under penalty of the superintendents returning said patient at the county's expense to his Cor her) home or friends, he shall contract with re- sponsible parties under the forms already specified for the support of the patient.
 27. A Judge of Probate upon having his attention drawn to it by any party inter -ested, under the penalty of having the pa- tient returned to his Cor her) home at the county's expense, shall investigate and cause a new bond to be executed, if the present one securing the support of the paying patient from his county has become insufficient.
 2S. Judge of Probate can transfer pay ing patient who has become indgent to the indigent class; he shall, however, notify the superintendent at once and shall not dis charge the bondsmen until after he has learned from the superintendent that all their obligations with the hospital have been satisfied to the end of the current quarter.
 29 The superintendent is authorized to expend, In the way requested, any funds he may receive from any source for extra attention, nursing, board, clothing or deli- cacies, etc, for an indigent or paying pa- tient, provided in his opinion it does not interfere with the good of the patient, the discipline of the hosptal or the welfare of the other patients
 SO When patient has been restored to normal or to comparatively safe and good mental condition sufficiently long to war rant the opinion on the part of the super intendent that he Cor she) ought to be re- tured to his Cor her) home. or set at large again, the superintendent shall inform the friends or relatives of the patients recev- cry, and if they do not furnish the money to pay the traveling expenses. he shall mo- tify the judge of probate of the county whence the patient came, and the commis- sioners of said county shall pay out of the county treasury for the necessary travelling expenses of the return of the patient to hls home in that county.
 31 The superintendent has the authority to grant friends or relatives the permission to remove from the hospital trial or furlough at their expense any harmless pa- tient whom he thinks 1t will benefit. Said patient, if necessary, can be returned by friends or others at any time within six months from the beginning of his Cor her) furlough; if at the expiration of the six months the patient has not been returned to the hospital, he Cor she) shall be trans ferred from the furloughed to the dis charged list, and readmission cannot be ob- taned without the same legal process as if the person had never been patient of the hospital.
 32 When any patient shall be brought to the Bryce Hospital without the proper committing certificate from the probate judge of the county in which he Cor she) resides, it shall be the duty of the judge of probate of Tuscaloosa County if he be properly informed that the patient can be received into the hospital, to examine said patient. and if insane, give the proper cer- tifcate; and he shall notify the judge of probate of the county whence the patient came of the facts in the case, which judge, If the person is a paying patient shall cause the proper bond to be made.
 s. In the case of a patient who is taken to the hospital at Mount Vernon without proper commitment papers from the judge of probate of the county in which he Cor she) resides, any justice of the peace con- venient to the hospital, on notice from the physician in charge that the patient can be received, shall examine said patient af- ter the manner prescribed for judges of probate, and if he finds him Cor her) insane, shall issue a certificate in the prescribed form and commit said patient to that hos pital; at the same time he shall notify the judge of probate of the county whence the patient came of the facts in the case.
 94. In case any person sentenced to or im- prisoned in the penitentiary, or sentenced to or confined at hard labor for a county anywhere in the State, becomes insane, the physician in attendance on said convict shall report the fact to the Governor, who shall appoint three suitable persons. one of whom is the said physician, who shall examine said convict, and report the re- suit of their examination to the Governor; If said convict Is declared to be insane and fit to be sent to the hospital for insane per- sons, the Governor shall direct the proper officer to apply to the superintendent at Tuscaloosa for the admission of the insane convict into the hospital, describing the case according to the same interrogatories prescribed for judges of probate, and, when notified by the superintendent that the in- sane convict can be received, and to which hospital he shall be taken, the said officer shall send him Cor her) at the expense of the State to said hospital, with copy of the order of the Governor.
 The same compensation shsAl be allowed to sheriffs or guards for conveying insane convicts to and from the hospital as is al- lowed for carrying prisoners to the peni- tentiary
 No criminal or nerSOn indicted for