Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
patients of the institution for the

patients of the institution for the
insane.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Minnesota:
Section /. That Statutes 1923, Sec
ton 1923, be and hereby is amended
30 as to read as follows:
1888. The superintendent. when
ever he deems it advisable that pa
tient should return home or remain
away from the institution on trial,
may allow him to be absent on pa
role for a period not exceeding one
year. The order of commitment shall
remain in force until he is legally
discharged, and he may be recalled
at any time"
Approved March is. 1881.
CHAPTER 14-H. r. No. S51.
AN ACT relating to the care and
maintenance of feeble-minded and
epiIeptic persons and amending
Mason's Minnesota Statutes of 1927,
Section $500.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State of Minnesota:
Section /. That Mason's Mime
Sofa Statutes of 1927, Section 1900,
be amended so as to read as follows:
"45OO. All feeble-minded persons,
resident of the state. duly committed
to the guardianship of the state board
of control who, in the opinion of said
board, are in need of care and train
ing at some state institution for the
feeble minded may be admitted to
such an institution, and epileptic per-
sons who are not predetermined may
on their own application be admitted
to the colony for epileptics, under
such conditions and regulations as
said board shall prescribe. The per-
son legally responsible for the sup
port of any person so admitted, shall
pay annually to the superintendent
OF the institution of which such per-
son is an inmate a sum not exceed
ing forty dollars, to be fixed by the
board, but if the person so liable fails
or refuses to pay such sum, of which
non-payment the certificate of the
superintendent of such institution
shall be prima facie evidence. it is
hereby made a charge upon the coun-
ty in which the person so admitted
has a legal settlement for the pur-
pose of poor relief if he has settle
ment within the state and, if not,
upon the county from which he was
admitted, and upon the presentation
of a certificate of the superintendent
of said institution certified to by the
secretary of the board of control to
the auditor of said county, that such
person is a regular and proper inmate
80 ipc
SO fixed by the board as a condition
of admission, said auditor shall inn
mediately remit to the superintendent
OF said institution the sum SO fixed,
and a like amount annually there
after, so long as such person remains
an inmate Of said institution, which
sums may be recovered by the county
from any person of sufficient ability
legally responsible for the support OF
such inmate; said superintendent
shall transmit the funds so received
to the state treasurer to be credited to
the proper funds of said institution as
required by law in the case of other
current receipts, and said board shall
have authority to reimburse pro rata
the persons and counties SO paying
respectively from the general sup
port fund of the institution in case of
the death or removal of such persons
SO admitted, before the termination
of the annual period for which such
payment is made. Any crippled or
deformed child who is helpless and
who cannot be benefited by treat
ment at the state hospital for Grip
pied and deformed children, or any
child who is physically helpless from
any chronic disease of the nervous
system or any child or adult suffer-
ing from such or other incurable
chronic invalidism, may be admitted
to said department for incurables in
said institution in the discretion of
any under such conditions as the
board of control shall determine:
Provided, however, that this section
shall not apply to those who are
helpless from insanity or senile de-
mentia, or whose presence shall, in
the opinion of the superintendent of
said institution be incompatible with
the general purposes of the institu-
ton, as specified above. The sum to
be paid annually for each of such
persons shall be $50 instead of $40
as hereinbefore specified to be paid
in other cases, which amount shall
be paid in the manner in this sec
ton hereinbefore prescribed"
Approved March 10, 1881.