a satisfactory period of observation and treatment, or when- notice of may order servation. ccm Second, When, in accordance with section sixteen, act two When court hundred seventeen, public acts of nineteen hundred three, limited in the hearing as to the insanity of a person, it may seem mitment. advisable to the court, that on account of doubt as to the sanity or insanity of a person, or if in the opinion of the court, a permanent order of insanity is inadvisable, or if in the opinion of the court and examining physicians, the case presents complicating diseases which may be treated by the clinical physicians in the general hospitals of the university, and by such treatment their mental or nervous disability be cured or benefited, the court may continue said hearing in said court not to exceed thirty-five days, and direct that such person shall be sent to the psychopathic hospital at the university of Michigan, as a public or private patient, as a person afflicted with some nervous or mental disease and that said person be there confined, observed and treated for a period not longer than thirty-five days. Before the expira- Report of obtion of this period the director of the psychopathic hospital shall return to the judge of probate the results of his observation and treatment of said patient, and an opinion stating whether said patient, is insane or sane. If observation has In case pershown that the patient is insane, then the court shall notify said patient, the relatives and the person making the application for said admission to an asylum, and may pass judgment of insanity and order that said person be confined as an insane patient in the psychopathic hospital at the university of Michigan, or in the state asylum for the insane in the district of which said patient is a legal resident, or in such other asylum for the insane in the state of Michigan as may seem advisable; and it shall thereupon be further ordered that said patient be transferred to the state asylum for the insane of the district of which said patient was a legal resident, or to such asylum as said judge of probate may designate, when in the opinion of the director of the psychopathic hospital further residence in said hospital would not result in recovery or would be inadvisable: Pro- Proviso, vided, That whenever an insane patient is to be transferred asylum. to an asylum in accordance with such provision, due notice of the intention of such transfer shall be given to the judge of probate, the person making application for the admission son insane. transfer to Discharge from hospital. Private patients, admission of. of said patient into an asylum, and the superintendent of the state asylum for the insane, to which said patient is to be transferred. If the results of the observation of said person show that, in the opinion of the director of the psychopathic hospital, said person is not insane, then the order for confinement, observation and treatment shall be vacated and the patient discharged from the psychopathic hospital; Third, Persons who are residents of the state of Michigan, who are afflicted mentally, or with serious nervous disorder, but who are not insane, nor been legally adjudged insane, may be admitted to the psychopathic hospital at the university of Michigan as voluntary patients, either at the discretion of the director of said hospital, or in accordance with the statutes providing for the admission of voluntary patients to the Michigan state asylums for the insane. Such voluntary patients, when so received, shall be subject to the general rules and regulations of the psychopathic hospital. All voluntary patients shall be supported without expense to the state, and the amount agreed upon for the maintenance of such voluntary patients in the psychopathic hospital shall be secured by a properly executed bond to be approved by the medical director, and there shall be made such advance payments as may be required by the action of the board of trustees of the psychopathic hospital at the university of Michigan, and bills for their maintenance shall be collected Discharge, etc. monthly. Voluntary patients so received may be discharged at any time by the medical director, and in case any voluntary patient in the psychopathic hospital at the university of Michigan is believed to be insane, then proceedings shall be carried out as provided for such contingency by act two hundred seventeen, section twenty-nine, public acts of nineteen hundred three; Support of. Inmate at In case patient cured. Incurables. Relative to transfer from asylum. Fourth, In case the superintendent of any one of the asylums for the insane in the state of Michigan shall be of the opinion that the condition of mind of any person who is confined in such asylum may be benefited by residence and treatment at the psychopathic hospital at the university of Michigan, he may cause said patient to be conveyed to said hospital, and, in case said patient, while there confined, shall be restored to sanity, such patient shall be discharged; but, in case such patient shall be found incurable, such patient may be returned to the asylum from which said patient was received, or may be discharged or paroled from the psychopathic hospital by its director, with the consent of the superintendent of the asylum from which such patient was received. Whenever, in accordance with the above provisions, a patient shall be transferred from any asylum to the psychopathic hospital, the superintendent of such asylum shall notify the guardian, if any, of such patient and the judge of probate of the county of which such patient was a resident, and when said patient is discharged, paroled or returned to the asylum from which said patient was received, the director of the psychopathic hospital shall inform said guardian, if any, and the judge of probate, before taking such action. (209) SEC. 19. All expenses for transfers between the Expense for asylums and the psychopathic hospital at the university of transfers. Michigan, shall be borne by the state in the case of public patients, and by those responsible for their support in the case of private patients. public patient, (210) SEC. 22. The state shall pay to the psychopathic Expenses of hospital all expenses for keeping and maintaining public pa- how paid." tients therein, including their clothing and all other expenses of said hospital for said public patients, and during the first year of the patient's confinement as a public patient, the state shall collect from the county treasurer of the county Collect from in which said patient was a legal resident, such daily rate county, as may be annually fixed at the joint meeting of the boards. of trustees of the state asylums for the insane and the board of state auditors, as the daily rate for the maintenance of public patients in the asylum located in the district of which such patient was a legal resident, and in addition thereto, the cost of clothing, transportation and elopement expenses and moneys furnished in accordance with section thirty-three, act two hundred seventeen, public acts of nineteen hundred three. See section 195. public pa (211) SEC. 24. Every public patient, if he has an estate Liability for sufficient for that purpose, and, if not, such relatives as are tient. legally liable for the support of such patient, shall be liable to the state for all expenses paid by it in the behalf of such patient. CHAPTER VIII. Home for Feeble-Minded and Epileptic.-Michigan School for Deaf.— AN ACT to establish a home and training school for the feeble-minded and epileptic, and making an appropriation for the same. [Extract from Act 209, P. A. 1893.] admitted to the home. (212) § 2045. SEC. 20. All feeble-minded and epileptic who may be persons, above the age of six years, who are legal residents of the state of Michigan, may, in the discretion of the board, be admitted to said home without charge for tuition, boarding, washing, medicine or medical attendance. But where the parents or guardians of any person or persons who may be admitted are able to contribute to their support, in whole or in part, they may be required to do so under uniform rules to be To whom preference may be given. Exempt from serving on juries. Board may assist indigents. How paid. poor. established by the said board of control. In the selection of inmates preference shall be given to indigent or pauper orphan children, and when this class is provided for, such others may be admitted for whom application may be made whenever suitable accommodations have been provided; and when these classes are provided for, other feeble-minded and epileptic persons may be received into said institution as the board of control may by their rules and regulations approve and direct. (213) § 2050. SEC. 25. The superintendent of the home and all employes actually employed therein shall be exempt from serving on juries. In cases where persons, residents of this state who are imbecile, epileptic, or feeble-minded, and who are entitled to admission to the home, and who on account of their poverty, are unable to furnish themselves, and whose friends are unable to furnish them with suitable clothing, traveling and other necessary expenses for attendance at the home, the board of control shall have discretionary power to render such assistance not exceeding forty dollars in any one year for each person, and for that purpose may issue a certificate directed to the auditor general, that such amount is necessary for the benefit of such individuals, who shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer therefor, and any such sums are hereby appropriated, and shall be paid out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated. And the auditor general shall charge all such moneys as drawn, to the county of which such person is a resident, or to which he or she belongs, to be collected and returned to the general fund as any state taxes are required by law. Duty of super(214) § 2051. SEC. 26. The superintendents of the poor intendents of in each of the counties of the state in which there are or shall be persons of this class eligible to admission to this home by the provisions of this act, who have no contagious disease, and who are, or shall become chargeable to said county, or to any township therein, shall cause all, or any such persons to be taken to the home for the feeble-minded and epileptic and to be taken into the custody and care of said home, in accordance with the rules and regulations of said home. No person, however, shall be admitted to said home, until a certificate of admission has been issued for the admission of said person by some officer of said home duly authorized by the board of trustees to issue such certificate. Must issue certificate. To be transported at expense of county. Patients must be clean and well clothed. (215) § 2052. SEC. 27. The superintendents of the poor shall cause any and all such persons to be taken to the home for the feeble-minded and epileptic at the expense of the county, and to be taken into [the] custody and care of the school in accordance with the rules and regulations of said home. (216) § 2053. SEC. 28. The superintendents of the poor in every case before taking or sending any person to said home as provided in sections twenty-five and twenty-six of this act, shall see that such person is in a state of perfect bodily cleanliness, and comfortably and decently clothed. AN ACT to provide for the maintenance, management and control of the Michigan school for the deaf, and to repeal all laws inconsistent herewith. [Extract from Act 116, P. A. 1893.] dumb are in (217) § 2005. SEC. 16. In cases where persons, residents When deaf and of this state, who are deaf and dumb, but who, on account digent. of their poverty, are unable to furnish themselves with suitable clothing and other necessaries for attending school at the institution for the deaf and dumb, the board of trustees shall have discretionary power to render them such assistance, not exceeding forty dollars per annum for each person, and for that purpose may issue a certificate, directed to the auditor general, that such amount is necessary for the benefit of such individuals, who shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer therefor; and any such sums are hereby appropriated and shall be paid out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, and the auditor general shall charge all such moneys as drawn to the county of which such person is a resident, or to which he or she belongs, to be collected and returned to the general fund as any state taxes are required to be by law. (218) § 2006. SEC. 17. The superintendents of the poor Duty of the-in each of the counties of this state in which there are, or shall ents of the superintendbe hereafter, any person or persons of suitable age, who shall poor. possess a good natural intellect and a good moral character, and shall have no contagious disease, who shall be deaf and dumb, or partially deaf and dumb, and who shall be, or shall become chargeable to said county, or to any township therein, shall cause any and all such persons to be taken to the Michigan school for the deaf, at the city of Flint, to be there educated as pupils in said institution in accordance with the rules and regulations thereof. suitably clothed. (219) § 2007. SEC. 18. Such superintendents of the poor, Pupils to be in every case, before taking or sending any person to said institution, as provided in section seventeen of this act, shall see that such person is in a state of perfect bodily cleanliness, and comfortably and decently clothed, and provided with suitable changes of raiment; and they shall thereafter, during the years that such person shall continue a pupil in said institution, furnish him or her with such clothing and other articles of necessity and convenience as are, or may be by the rules and regulations of said institution, required to be furnished for pupils therein; and shall provide for the payment of necessary Traveling and traveling and other expenses of such person in going to and expenses. from said institution and while remaining there; and if they shall allow such person to remain at said institution during the yearly vacation they shall pay for his or her board during such vacation. No pupil of such institution shall be returned to any poorhouse during such vacation. other paid. (220) § 2008. SEC. 19. The expenses incurred by the Expenses, how superintendents of the poor of any county in carrying out the |