The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-03-08
PAGE EIGHT
Here is THE LAW Which BISHOP
KELLEY, the Sworn Subject of a
Foreign Government, DEFIES!

4 BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for
"A the inspection by State authorities of
every private institution in which citizens of
Georgia and of other States are kept in CON
tinement by sanatorlums, private hospitals,
private asyIums, private orphanages, Houses
of Good Shepherds, converts, mOnasteries, Or
any other institution under any other name,
maintained by private individuals, corpora
tions, churches or charitable institutions,
within the State of Georgia, and for other
purposes.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted
by authority of the same, that in addition to
the statutory duties of the grand juries in
the respective counties of the State, said grand
jury shall, at each regular term of the courts
III their respective counties, appoint commit
tee OF not less than five members from the
grand Jury, whose duty it shall be as soon
as practicable after they are named on said
committee, to visit, inspect and carefully in
qulre into every such sanatorlum, hospital,
asylum, House of the Good Shepherd convent
and monastery, for the purpose of ascertain
ing what persons are confined within said in
situations, and by what authority such per-
sons are held within the same.
Section 2. BE it further enacted, etc, That
it shall be the duty of said committee APP
pointed by the grand jury to separately con-
fer with each inmate of said institutions, for
the purpose of ascertaining from said inmate
how he or she came to be confined in said in
stituton and what service, if any, in the way
Of labor has been imposed upon said inmate,
and whether said inmate desires to remain in
the custody of said institution.
Section 3. Be it enacted, etc, That the said
committee of inquiry shall report to the Judge
and to the solicitor of said Superior Court
the names of any and all dissatisfied inmates
of said institutions, together with brief
summary of the facts in each case, and that
this report shall either be made in open court,
sor. where the court is in vacation, shall be
published at the expense of the county, In the
newspaper In which the legal advertisements
Of said county are published.
Section f. Be it enacted, etc, That In every
case where it is ascertalned by said commit
tee that any person is illegally deprived Of his
or her liberty in any of the institutions above
named. said committee shall demand of the
proprietor, keeper or custodian of said insti-
tuition the immediate liberation of such per-
son: or in case that such demand for the re-
lease of said person is not promptly complied
with. upon the demand of the committee, it
shall be the duty of the grand jury to specially
present the owner, keeper, custodian or mana
ger Of such institution in a special present
ment for false imprisonment, and for holding
persons to involuntary servltude, In violation
of the Constitution of the State of Georgia,
and OF the United States.
Section j. Be it further enacted, That all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this
Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.