Compilation of the Laws Relating to the Board of Public Charities. .. |
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acquitted Act of April Act of June Acts Relating admission aforesaid agent almshouses amending Sec Anno Domini application appointed appropriation approved April 14 April 22 asylum Attorney Auditor board of managers Board of Public board of trustees boards of visitors certificate commission commissioners Commitment of Insane Committee on Lunacy Commonwealth confined convicted correctional institutions Criminal Insane custody deem detained detention discharge Dixmont dollars duty epileptic person feeble-minded Female furnished Governor ground of insanity hereby house or place indigent insane persons Industrial Home inebriate infra section inmates Insane Patients jail judge July 25 June 13 June 9 liable license lien Lunatic Hospital maintenance March 27 officers Official Visitors overseers paid payment Penalty person or persons persons having charge physician poor district proper county Public Charities removal residence Rule secretary sentenced superintendent supra section therein thereof thousand eight hundred tion township transfer treatment Western Penitentiary
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Page 45 - That in all cases, where it shall be given in evidence upon the trial of any person charged with treason, murder or felony, that such person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and such person shall be acquitted, the jury shall be required to find specially, whether such person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and to declare whether such person was acquitted by them on account of such insanity...
Page 207 - That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 46 - ... to be kept in strict custody in such place and in such manner as to the court shall seem fit, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known...
Page 104 - That all superintendents or managers, or other persons in charge of hospitals, almshouses, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment of diseases, confinement, or are committed...
Page 189 - Act the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...
Page 109 - No appropriations, except for pensions or gratuities for military services shall be made for charitable, educational or benevolent purposes, to any person or community, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution, corporation or association.
Page 196 - AB [describe him] was received into this house as a private [or pauper] patient, on the day of ; and I hereby transmit a copy of the order and medical certificates and statement on which he was received.
Page 91 - ... accomplished ; whether the laws in relation to them are fully complied with ; whether all parts of the...
Page 108 - State, other than Normal schools, established by law for the professional training of teachers for the public schools of the State, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house.
Page 15 - That the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, appoint five commissioners, who, together with the General Agent and Secretary hereinafter mentioned, shall constitute a Board of Public Charities...