seven days' notice of the time and place of the meeting of the jury to the district attorney of the county. Section 108 of the code of civil procedure regulates the impaneling of such a jury, and the proceedings upon the inquisition so far as it is applicable.

Ibid § 497.

Duty of dis

218. The district attorney must attend the inquiry. He may produce witnesses before the jury; for which trict attorney. purpose he has the same power to issue subpoenas, as for witnesses to attend a grand jury, and disobedience thereto may be punished by the court of oyer and terminer for that county, at any term thereof, in the same manner as disobedience to process issued by that court.

Ibid § 498.
Inquisition;

219. The inquisition of the jury must be signed by the jurors and the sheriff. If it be found by the inquisuspension of sition that the defendant is insane, the sheriff must execution. suspend execution of the warrant directing the defendant's death, until he receives a warrant from the governor, directing that the defendant be executed.

Ibid § 499. Sheriff to transmit inquisition to

220. The sheriff must immediately transmit the inquisition. to the governor; who, as soon as he is satisfied of the sanity of the defendant, or of his restoration to governor; gov. Sanity, must issue his warrant, appointing a time ernor's duty and place for the execution of the latter, pursuant to his sentence, unless the sentence is commuted or the convict pardoned, and may in the meantime give directions for the disposition and custody of the defendant.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Battle's Revi-
sal, 1873,
Ch. 93, § 1.
Board elected
by general as-
sembly.

1. The general assembly shall, immediately on the ratification of this act, proceed by concurrent vote to select five electors who shall be styled the board of public charities of the state of North Carolina. One of the persons so selected shall hold office for one year; one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years, the term to begin the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. Appointments to fill vacancies in this board, caused by resignation or removal from the state, death, or from any other cause, may be made for the residue of such term by the governor.

Ibid § 2.
Meetings, etc.
Board to
supervise

tions, com

peusation.

2. The board of public charities shall hold regular meetings on the first Tuesday in January, April, July and October, and as often besides as they may deem public institu- needful. They shall make such rules and orders for the regulation of their own proceedings as they may deem proper; they shall investigate and supervise the whole system of the charitable and penal institutions of the state, and shall recommend such changes and additional provisions as they may deem needful for their economical and efficient administration, and no changes shall be made in the management of any of the institutions without the advice or consent of the board. They shall receive no compensation for their services except their traveling expenses, which shall be allowed and paid.

Ibid § 3.

3. The general condition of the state as affected by crimes, vagrancy and pauperism, shall also come under the Duty to report. view of the board, and it shall be their duty to report to the general assembly when, in their judgment, it may become needful for the erection of the several reformatory institutions, whose organization is provided for in article eleven of the constitution.

Ibid § 4.

tion to be paid to the causes of insanity, etc.

4. The board shall also give special attention to the causes of insanity, defect or loss of the several senses, idiocy Special atten and the deformity and infirmity of the physical organization. They shall, besides their own observation, avail themselves of correspondence and exchange of facts of the labors of others in these departments, and thus be able to afford the general assembly data to guide them in future legislation for the amelioration of the condition

of the people, as well as to contribute to enlighten public opinion and direct it to interests so vital to the prosperity of the

state.

Visits and

5. Personal visits may be required by the board, of one or more of its members, or otherwise, to make careful bid § 5. investigation into the condition of the several county reports. jails and almshouses, and the treatment of their unfortunate inmates, and report on these points, so that the provisions of section six, article eleven, of the constitution may be enforced. 6. Whenever the board shall have reason to believe that any insane person, not incurable, is deprived of pro- Ibid $6. per remedial treatment, and is confined in any sous. almshouse or other place, whether such insane person is a public charge or otherwise, it shall be the duty of said board to cause such insane person to be conveyed to the state asylum, there to receive the best medical attention. So also, it shall be their care that all the unfortunate shall participate in the charities of the state.

Insane per

id $7. reports, etc.

May require

7. The board may require the superintendent, etc., of the several charitable and penal institutions of the state to report to them of any matter relating to its inmates, their manner of instruction and treatment, with structure of their buildings, and to furnish them any desired statistics at their command.

bid § 8.

Annual re

ports to be

made by

8. The board of public charities shall annually prepare and submit to the general assembly a complete and full report of their doings during the preceding year, showing the actual condition of all the state institu- board. tions under their control, with such suggestions as they may deem necessary and pertinent, which they shall print.

County com

Ibid § 9. missioners to board. Board calars, etc.

report to

to furnish cir

9. The commissioners of each county in this state shall in each year on or before the first Monday in November, report to the board of public charities such information in regard to the number and condition of the inmates of their poorhouse and prisons, together with the number of outdoor paupers, and the deaf, dumb, blind, idiotic and insane of their county not in asylum or almshouse, and such other information as may be desirable to get a complete view of the number and condition of these classes of persons in the state. The board of public charities shall

prepare and furnish to the commissioners of each county carefully arranged circulars indicating the information desired, the blank column of which shall be correctly filled in the report.

Ibid § 10. County commissioners to require reports from

10. It shall be lawful for the commissioners of each county in aid of this purpose to require the trustees of each township in their county to prepare and furnish information to them of all the facts called for in the circular of the board of public charities.

trustees of townships.

Ibid § 11. Penalty for refusing.

11. The commissioners of any county or the trustees of any township who shall refuse or neglect to furnish the information required by this chapter when they have been provided with the necessary blank forms for paupers, shall, on complaint being made before any judge of the superior court, be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

Act of 1883,

ch. 156, § 1.

istence con

tinued.

12. "The North Carolina Insane Asylum," located near Raleigh, shall be and remain a corporation under that Corporate ex- name; "The Western North Carolina Insane Asylum," located near Morganton, shall be and remain. a corporation under that name; and "The Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum," located near Goldsboro, shall be and remain a corporation under that name. And under such name

Corporate rights.

each corporation is invested with all the property and rights heretofore held by each under what name soever called or incorporated, and all other corporate names are hereby abolished.

Ibid § 2.

acquire and

13. "The North Carolina Insane Asylum," "The Western North Carolina Insane Asylum" and "The Eastern Authorized to North Carolina Insane Asylum" may each acquire hold property and hold for the purposes of its institution, property and estate by devise, bequest, or by any manner of gift, purchase or conveyance whatever.

Ibid § 3.

N. C. Insane
Asylum and

14. "The North Carolina Insane Asylum" and "The Western North Carolina Insane Asylum " shall be exclusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the white insane of the state, and "The Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum shall be exclusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the colored insane of the state.

Western N. C. Insane Asylum for exclusive care of white insane,

Eastern N. C.

Insane Asy

lum for exclu

sive care of col'd insane.