The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-20

port agreed upon; but no person shall be received in said colony. as pa- tient without lodging with the super fntendent . written request stating the full name. place of residence. place of nativity, occupation of the patient and degree of relationship to the pa- tient of the applicant. and other cir. cumStances between the applicant and the person for whom admission ia sought. together with the certificate of two physicians who are legal prac- titioners of medicine in Alabama. set
 ting forth the fact that the person for
 whom admission Is desired Is an ep-
 ileptic and Is eligible to admission to
 said colony. Such certificates shall be
 under oaths and shall be in accord
 ance with forms adopted by the
 board of commissioners of said colo
 ny. All persons maintained at the col
 ony at private charge. shall in addi-
 tion to the above requirements, fur
 nish . bond payable to the treasurer
 or his successor in ufice in such a
 sum and with such securities as shall
 be approved by the superintendent and
 conditioned for the cost and support
 of the patient so long as he shall
 remain in tho colony. No such per
 son shall be detained for more than
 three months after having given writ
 ten notice of his desire or intention
 to leave said colony. When any pa
 tient is received nt said Epileptfc Col
 ony the superintendent shall report
 the particulars of the case to the com
 missioners who may investigate the
 same.
 Sec. .. Any resident of Alabama
 who is five years of age or over de-
 string to be admitted or for whom ad-
 mission Is desired. to the Alabama Ep-
 iieptic Colony. under the provisions of
 section seven of this act, who Is not
 of sufficient ability to pay the charge of his support in said Epileptic Colony: and who has no person or kindred
 bound by law to maintain him. of suf.
 ficient ability to pay such charges
 may apply by petition to any judge Of probate qualified to commit insane per sons, asking for the approval of nis
 application as hereinafter provided. NO such person shall be admitted in said Epileptic Colony except In accordanSs with the provisions of this act.
 Sec. 10. Such petition shall be accompanied by a written application to the superintendent of said Epileptic Colony for admission thereto, signed by the petitioner and sworn to by him or by some relative or friend for him, setting forth his place of res
 idence, and to the best of his knowi- edge, his place of settlement, also stat ing that he is an epileptic and that neither he nor any other person bound by law to maintain him Is of sufficient ability to pay the charges of his sup port.
 Section II. The petitioner shall give notice to the commissioned court of the county in which the applicant re- sides. of hia intention to bring such a petition; and. should such application be received and cared for in said Epi- leptic Colony, there shall be paid in quarterly payments to the treasurer of said board of commissioners by the county treasurer. on the order of the commissioners court of each county from which an indigent person has been committed to the colony. or trans ferred from an almshouse, State hos pital or institution or county poorhouse where they were previously maintain ed at public expense the sum of two dollars per week, and in addition a sum not to exceed thirty dollars per annum for clothing for each patient received, as aforesaid; and the certifi- ony that such patient has been re- ceived and maintained shall be suffi- cient authority to sue for, and to res cover in the name of it's treasurer, from the county indebted, all sums that may be due for the support, mainte- nance and clothing of any such pa- tisnts as in any action on contracts.
 Sec. 12. The hearing of such peti- tion shall be at such time and place as the probate judge shall appoint. If upon such hearing. the probate judge finds that the petitioner is subject to epilepsy and is eligible for admission to said epileptic colony that his mental condition is not such as to render it legal to grant certificate of insanity in his case; that neither he nor any person bound by law to maintain him is of sufficient ability to pay the charges for his support in such Epilep. tic Colony, and that notice has been given as provided in the preceding sec tion, the probate judge shall approve said application for admission. A cer- tificate reciting said findings and ap- provaI, signed by the probate judge together with certified copies of the for admission, the notice mentioned in section eleven of this act, and the certificate hereinafter re- uuired, shall be transmitted to the os said Epileptic Colo ny.
 section IS. The probate judge hear Ing such petitions shall not approve the application for admission until there has been filed with him the certificate of two physicians made as hereinafter provided. No one shall be qualified to make such certificate unless he shall make oath that he has been engaged In the practice of medicine in Alaba' ma for tw6 years next preceding tho making of the oatlTs and that he is licensed to practice medicine under, he laws of Alabama. Every such phy- sician shall state in such certificate that in his opinion the petitioner is an epiIeptic and a suitable person to be received in said epilepttc colony and shall specify the facts on which his opinion Is founded substantially in with the practice relating to certificates of lunacy.
 Sec. 14. In all cases arising under he provisions of sections nine, ten. eleven, twelve and thirteen of this act. the probate judge. physicians and all other officials shall be entitled to the ,ame fees as are authorized in the .ase of commitment of an insane person 10 the insane hospital, and such fees together with the expense Of transpor- tation to said Epileptic Colony or any such patient whose application Tor admission thereto may be approved by he probate judge, shall be certified, .llowed and paid as provided by the ,tatute of Alabama, in regard to the of an insane person to the insane hospital.
 Sec. 15 After the establishment or said Epileptic Colony. all epileptic in- mates of the class mentioned in sec ion seven of this act. who have been committed to an insane hospital may be transferred by the superintendent hereof to the said Alabama Epileptic Colony and when said board has reason .o believe that said epileptic confined