Of the three hundred and four beds assigned to the county of Cook, seventy-five shall be in the hospital at Kankakee, and two hundred and twenty-nine at Elgin, and the county court of said county shall have the right to send any individual patient to one or the other of the said hospitals, at the discretion of the court, in accordance with the circumstances in each case, but not exceeding the quota herein named.

§ 3. The county board, or board of supervisors, as the case may be, of all counties from which there are, or hereafter may be, patients committed as paupers to either of the state hospitals for the insane, is hereby directed and required to make settlement in full, as often as once in every six months, for all just charges for clothing and other proper incidental expenses, and to pay the amount due said hospitals in money, or negotiable paper worth its face, without discount.

§ 4. In case any county shall fail and refuse to pay any just and reasonable account presented by any of the state hospitals for the insane, and the same shall remain unpaid for one year after it is due, then the trustees of the said hospital shall apply to the circuit court, in and for the said delinquent county, for a writ of mandamus upon the county treasurer of said county, requiring him to pay the said over-due account, and upon proof made of the justice of the claim, the circuit court shall issue such writ.

§ 5. All beds not assigned to the several counties, as per schedule in section two of this act, shall be reserved for the reception and care of recent cases of insanity, or other cases having special claim to relief, without respect to the counties from which such

cases are sent; and in case the hospital at Kankakee shall be completed or partially completed before the next session of the General Assembly, the trustees may admit patients, at discretion, from outside the district in which said hospital is situated, but they shall give the preference to applications for the admission of such patients as are capable of labor on and about the grounds of the hospital, in order that the state may receive the benefit of such labor.

§ 6. Any patients who may be in any state hospital for the insane from outside the limits of the district for which said hospital is designed, as expressed in the first section of this act, shall, as soon after this act takes effect as may be convenient, be transferred to the hospital in and for the district to which they belong; and the expenses of such transfer shall be defrayed from the state treasury, in the same manner as the cost of conveying convicts to the penitentiary is defrayed: Provided, that the bills rendered for this service shall show all the items of expense actually incurred, and be accompanied by sub-vouchers for each item, and no amount shall be allowed or paid by the auditor of public accounts in excess of such actual expense.

§ 7. An act entitled "An act to secure equality among the counties in the matter of the admission of patients into the state hospitals for the insane," approved April 10, 1875, and an act entitled "An act to secure equality among the counties in the matter of the admission of patients into the state hospitals for the insane, and to provide for settlement with such hospitals by the counties," approved May 25, 1877, are hereby repealed.

APPROVED May 28, 1881.

SEVENTH BIENNIAL REPORT.

There are, at the present time, ten institutions subject to the supervision of this board, namely: four hospitals for the insane, the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, the institution for the blind, the asylum for feeble-minded children, the soldiers' orphans' home, the charitable eye and ear infirmary, and the state reform school.

STATISTICAL TABLES.

The tabular statements in the appendix to this report will be found to contain detailed answers to nearly all questions likely to asked concerning the finances of the state institutions. (For a complete list of the tables referred to, see the index).

AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR.

On the first of October, 1889, there were in the hands of the several treasurers of the institutions under our care, the following cash balances:

In addition to these balances in the possession of the institutions, they had, in the state treasury, unexpended balances of appropriations undrawn, to the amount of $589,352 84, as follows:

Of this unexpended balance in the state treasury, $452,812 50 was for the ordinary expenses of the institutions until the first of July, 1881, and the remainder, $136,540 34, was for special purposes.

The last general assembly appropriated, for the use of these ten institutions, the sum of $1,701,562, which was apportioned among them as shown in the following statement:

Of this amount, $1,202,000 was appropriated for their ordinary expenses, for two years, from the first of July, 1881, to the thirtieth of June, 1883. The remainder of the appropriations, amounting to $499,562, were for special purposes.

In addition to the income derived from appropriations, the institutions receive a minor income from the proceeds of sales of farm produce, stock, and manufactured articles, from collections for clothing, etc. The amount of this miscellaneous income, during the past two years, has been:

This, then, is the total amount to be accounted for in the present report, and in the reports of the institutions herewith transmitted:

Balances, October 1, 1880.

Former appropriations undrawn.

Appropriations by the 32d general assembly.
Miscellaneous income..

Total...

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$2,482,651 14

It is evident that this amount must have been expended by the institutions, or remain either in the state treasury or in the hands of the local treasurers.

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF CREDITS, TO BALANCE THE ACCOUNTS.

The cash disbursements by the state institutions, during the past two years, were:

The amount remaining in the hands of local treasurers, Septem

ber 30, 1882, was:

Northern Insane Hospital.

$ 7,779 54 18,553 51 8,387 11

Eastern Insane Hospital.

Central Insane Hospital..

Southern Insane Hospital.

23,944 83

The amount remaining in the state treasury, undrawn, September 30, 1882, was $620,696 86, as follows: