The age-herald., 1900-12-16

Sec. 2 Be 1t further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
 Approved December 5, 1900
 (ofdcial) ROBERT P. McDAVID, Secretary of State. No. 147. AN ACT s. f. To incorporate "The Alabama Insane Hos pitals;" to provide for the control and
 management thereof, and for the admis-
 sion, care and discharge of patients; also. to set apart the Mount Vernon military
 reservation as one of said hospitals l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, That the institu- ton for the care and treatment of insane persons, already located in the county of Tuscaloosa and near the city of Tuscaloo- sa, heretofore known as the Alabama Bryce Insane Hospital, shall be styled ''rhe Bryce Hospital;" and the property known as the Mount Vernon Barracks Military Reserva- ton, situated in the county of Mobile, to- gether with all the buildings and other im- provements thereon, granted to the State of Alabama by an act of Congress of the United States, approved March l. 1895, and conveyed to the State of Alabama by deed executed by Daniel s. Lamont, Secretary of War dated March 1S, 1885, "to be held and used for public purposes" is hereby set apart for the use of the insane of the State, under the name of "The Mount Yer non Hospital"
 ?. The board of seven trustees, now In control of the Alabama Bryce Insane Hos pital at Tuscaloosa, shall have possession, control and management of ''The Bryce Hospital" at Tuscaloosa and of "The Mount Vernon Hospital" at Mount Vernon, and of such other property as shall from time to time be placed under their care by the General Assembly of Alabama or oth- erwise and said board of trustees and their successors in office are constituted body corporate under the name of "The Ala bama Insane Hospitals" and by that name may sue and be sued; may contract and be bound; may have, possess and enjoy real and personal property and have perpetual succession; and may have and use com mon seal and break or alter the same at pleasure; and have all the powers incident to corporations of such nature; and suits against said corporation shall be brought only in the appropriate courts of Tuscaloo- sa County or of Mobile County; and all contracts or obligations now existing, in which the Alabama Bryce Insane Hospital is interested, shall continue under the new corporation.
 3. The length of the terms of office of the members of said Board of Trustees Is hereby changed from six to seven years, and the present arrangement, by which the terms of certain members expire differ ently after periods of two years, is changed so that the term of one trustee shall expire every year on the 3oth day of September The terms of the seven Trustees who constitute the present Board, are hereby arranged so that the term of J. B. Gaston, of Mont gomery, shall expire on the 30th day of September 1901; that of s. W. John, of Birmingham, on the S0th day of September, 1902 that of w. G. Somerville, of Tuscaloo- sa, the 30th day of September 1908; that of R. T. Simpson, of Florence on the 30th day of September, 1904; that of J. M. Eos ter, of Tuscaloosa, on the SOth day of Sep tember, 1905; that of J. L. Williamson of Tuscaloosa, on the 3Oth day of September, 1906; and that of E. M. Robinson, of Mobile, OH the oOtil udy or OeplemDeT, 1JUi
 = 4. Hereafter as the terms of the different trustees expire, the Board of Trustees shall elect persons to fill the vacancies, whose terms shall be seven years each, to date from the expiration of the preceding term; and when the office of any trustee is va cated by death resignation, removal from the State, or otherwise. the board shall elect a person to fill the vacancy for the unexpired remainder of the term.
 5. In filling the vacancies as they occur hereafter, the board shall so arrange their elections that at least four of the board shall be practitioners of medicine; and so that three of the board shall reside near the hospital at Tuscaloosa, and two con- venient to the hospital at Mount Vernon, who shall constitute respectively resident committees, to manage, between the meet ings of the board, such affairs of the re- spective hospitals as are committed to them by this act and by the board. The other two members of the board shall be elected from other parts of the State.
 6. The trustees shall receive no compensa- tion for their services other than the amounts of their travelling expenses, act ually paid out while attending the meetings of the board, or while on other business of the hospitals to which they have been ap- pointed by the board.
 '. The Senate of the State of Alabama shall at each session confirm or disaffirm the election of such trustees of ''The Ala bama Insane Hospitals'' as have been cho- sen since the last session of the General Assembly, and in case of the disaffrmance of the election of any trustee, the Senate shall declare his office vacant, and elect person to fill the place for the balance of the unexpired term. The printed report of the Board of Trustees to the Governor, hereinafter mentioned, shall contain list of the members of the board, with their residences; and 1t shall be the duty of the Governor to submit to the Senate for their consideration the names of such trustees as have been elected since the preceding meeting of the Senate, as above provided.
 8. The Board of Trustees shall determine the time when the fiscal year of the hos xNff a11 rho o,N6 hot