rules of ad the rates of admission, maintenance, and medical To establish attendance of all the subjects of the said institution, mission. providing such rates as shall support the institution without any charge on the treasury of the state. §1597. Regents to the legisla report to 3. The regents shall report annually to the legislature the state and condition of the institution, fully and particularly; and they shall also annually report to the comptroller-general the amount of income of said institution, and the amount of expenditures, and the items thereof. ture. § 1598. regents of 4. The lot upon which the lunatic asylum stands, containing four acres, butting and bounding on Upper Boundary, Bull, Pickens, and Sumpter streets, is vested Lot vested in in the board of regents of said asylum, and their asylum. successors in office, for the uses and purposes of the asylum. 5. The board of regents of the lunatic asylum are authorized to close up and use, for the purpose of said asylum, so much of Pickens street, in the city of Columbia, as lies between Lumber and Upper streets of said streets. city, to retain such portion of Upper street as they have already enclosed, and also to close that part of Upper street, in the plan of the said city, lying between Henderson and Barnwell streets, and adjacent to the asylum grounds. $1600. § 1599. certain Employes and offi 6. All guards, keepers, employes, and other officers employed at the lunatic asylum, shall be exempted from serving on juries, and from all military, road, or street duty. cers, etc., exempted from military and other duties. 7. It shall be the duty of the regency to admit as subjects of the institution all idiots, lunatics and epileptics, § 1586. being citizens of this state, according to the follow- Who to be ading regulations, and subject to the following condi- asylum. tions, that is to say: mitted to idiots, etc., by etc. (1) All persons who shall be found idiots, or lunatics, by inquisition from the probate or circuit courts, or on 1. Those found trials in the circuit where the court shall order inquisition, such admission. (2) Where it shall be requested under the hands of the husband or wife, or (where there is no husband or 2. Where requested wife,) of the next of kin of idiot or lunatic. by husband or wife, etc. (3) All persons who shall be declared lunatics, idiots, or epi 3. Those so declared after leptics, after due examination by one trial justice examination. and two licensed practicing physicians of the state. Where the subject is a pauper, the admission shall be at the request of the county commissioners of the county wherein such pauper has a legal settlement; otherwise, the admission. shall be at the request of the husband or wife, or, where there is no husband or wife, of the next of kin of the idiot, lunatic, or epileptic. $ 1587. Idiots from § 1588. Judges may tions. 8. All idiots and lunatics from any of our sister states shall be admitted on such evidence of their lunacy or idiocy as the regents regard sufficient; but no foreign lunatic or idiot shall be admitted or kept in the institution to the exclusion of subjects being citizens of this state, and they shall pay the same rates as citizen subjects. 9. Whenever a judge of probate, or judge of the circuit. court, shall direct an order to any trial justice to direct inquisi- inquire as to the idiocy, lunacy, or epilepsy of any person, or when information, on oath, shall be given to any trial justice, that a person is an idiot, lunatic, or epileptic, and is chargeable for his support on the county, it shall be the duty of such trial justice forthwith to call to his assistance two licensed practicing physicians, and examine such person, and the evidence of his or her idiocy, lunacy or epilepsy; and if, after full examination, they shall find such person an idiot, lunatic, or epileptic, they shall certify to the said judge or to the board of county commissioners, whether, in their opinion, such person is curable or incurable, and whether his enlargement would be harmless or dangerous or annoying to the community; and thereupon the judge or the board of Order to be made ou return thereof. county commissioners, in his or its discretion, may make an order that the said person shall be sent to the lunatic asylum. § 1590. mit lunatics, etc., to asylum. 10. The judge of the probate court may commit to the lunatic asylum any idiot, lunatic, or person non bate may com- compos mentis, who, in his opinion, is so furiously mad as to render it manifestly dangerous to the peace and safety of the community that he or she should be at large; and also, in all such other cases provided by law. In all cases the judge shall certify in what place the said person or persons resided at the time of the commitment, and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of such residence. 11. No lunatic, idiot or epileptic, who may be declared a fit subject for the institution by a trial justice and two physicians, or who shall be sent from a sister state, shall be retained in the institution more than ten $ 1591. Certain in mates not to be retained without ex days after his admission, except where there shall amination, etc. be entered in the record of the institution an order for his retention, made, after full examination of his state of mind, by the medical attendant or attendants, and not less than three of the regents; and upon such order being made, it shall be the duty of the secretary of the regency to make out a certified copy of the declaration of the trial justice and physicians, and of the order of retention, and immediately send the same to the judge of probate of the county wherein such lunatic, idiot, or epileptic shall reside, who shall thereupon make such order in relation to the custody of the estate of the said subject as would have been made had the proceedings been under a writ de lunatico inquirendo. re § 1592. Transient pau per lunatics to appropriation for support. 12. Transient paupers, lunatics, idiots, or epileptics, sent to the asylum by virtue of the existing laws, shall be supported at the expense of the state, and the gents are hereby authorized to draw from the be received; treasury for every such lunatic one hundred and thirty-five dollars per annum. And it shall be the duty of the regents to report, specially, to every legislature, the whole number of this class of lunatics, idiots, or epileptics, while they remain a charge upon the public treasury. § 1593. Terms of admission; ad be exacted in certain cases. 13. No subject shall be admitted into the institution until one-half year's expense of maintenance and medical attendance there shall be paid to the treasurer of the regency; and a bond and good security shall vances not to be given to pay the said expenses half-yearly, in advance, so long as the subject remains in the institution, and to pay all funeral charges in case of his death; but such bond shall not be required of the county commissioners sending a pauper subject to the institution; provided, that the regents shall not be required to exact half-yearly advances for the admission into the asylum of such subjects as may be deemed curable, and likely to be speedily discharged, but only such advances as they may deem the nature of the case to require. In case the half-yearly advances are not paid, the bond shall be immediately put in suit. 14. Whenever any lunatic or epileptic shall have recovered, it shall be the duty of the regents to discharge him lunatics, etc. or her from the asylum. § 1594. Discharge of 1595 Imbeciles to be removed by county commission 15. The county commissioners of the various counties in the state shall remove their imbeciles from the state lunatic asylum, upon due notice from the superintendent to the said county commissioners as to the number of imbeciles confined in the institution from their respective counties, and shall take care of all such persons in their respective county poorhouses. ers to county poorhouses. $ 1596. Persons em ployed may be removed. 16. It shall be the duty of the regents to remove from office and cause to be indicted, any person employed in said institution who shall assault any idiot, lunatic or epileptic, or use towards any such idiot, lunatic, or epileptic any other or greater violence than may be necessary for his or her restraint, government, or cure. $1601. Before send ing lunatic to asylum, no tice to be giv. en county commissioners to decide about ability 17. All officers now authorized by law to send insane persons to the lunatic asylum, shall, before sending such insane person to the asylum, notify the chairman of the board of county commissioners, or the clerk of such board, that such person shall be sent to the lunatic asylum, having first had such lunatic, to pay, etc. if of dangerous or violent character, so secured as not to do any damage or injury; and the county commissioners shall, as early as practicable, ascertain whether or not such insane person should be sent to the asylum as a beneficiary, or as one to be only in part supported by the state, or as a pay patient; and they shall also investigate the pecuniary condition of all beneficiary lunatics from their respective counties now in the asylum; and they shall have the right to call upon the solicitors of their circuit for all assistance in law to the carrying out of their duties herein; provided, that no portion of the corpus of any estate belonging to such patient shall be taken for the current support of such patient. § 1602. Penalty for 18. If the county commissioners shall send to the lunatic asylum any person who can be now made to pay improper dis out of his or her income for his or her support, and shall knowingly or wilfully make a false report upon charge of duties. the condition of any person sent by such officer now authorized by law to send insane persons to the asylum, such commissioners shall, upon due conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and the bond of such county commissioner shall be liable for such fine. 19. Nothing herein contained shall be held in any manner to apply to the entrance of pay patients into the asylum as now provided by law. Not applicable to pay patients. 20. The county commissioners shall be authorized to send all pauper lunatics, idiots, and epileptics, in their $89. several counties, to the lunatic asylum. Commitment to asylum. $26 2697. Paupers, lu naties, etc., prisoned, but asylum. not to be im sent to the 21. No pauper, lunatic, idiot, or epileptic, shall hereafter be confined for safe keeping in any jail; and if any such person shall be imprisoned, under and by virtue of any legal process, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, in whose custody he may be, to obtain his discharge as speedily as possible, and send him forthwith to the asylum, according to law, at the expense of the county within whose limits he shall have gained a settlement. Jailer to re 22. It shall be the duty of the jailers of the several counties of this state, at the sitting of each court of sessions, § 2698. to report to the presiding judge the names of the port lunatics. persons confined in jail, who are lunatics, idiots, or epileptics, with the cause of their detention. No. 121, $1. Powers of superintend and ents 23. The superintendents and regents of the state lunatic asylum shall not receive into said institution any Act of 1882, beneficiary patient unless the order consigning such person to the asylum is accompanied by a report from the county commissioners of the county from which such person is sent, certifying that they have carefully investigated the circumstances and condition of such person, his or her family, parent or guardian, and that such person is a proper subject for beneficiary care and to what extent. Report shall 24. Said report shall also be certified by the county auditor and treasurer of such county, showing the property bid $ 2. and condition of such patient. And the superin- be certified to. tendent and board of regents shall have the right to reject any and all applicants for beneficiary care, if in their judgment |