the charges against .... quarterly in advance, and pay all reason ......... able charges for injury to apartments and furniture, and in the event of escape, pay all reasonable charges for recapture, and if ... shall, die therein, pay all reasonable expenses incurred for burial, and whenever......... removal shall be required, immediately to do so; then this obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. "Witness our hands, this ......... day of ........ MEDICAL CERTIFICATE. 18..." 3. A medical certificate of the following form, signed by at least one physician of reputable standing, shall be filed with the Superintendent: "The undersigned, being a physician in regular practice, hereby certifies that, on the day of.... ..... ...... ..... 18..., I personally Tennessee, and pronounce ......... insane, and a fit subject of care and treatment in a hospital for the insane. The patient is...... years of age; is free from infectious disease; has been insane for ; the disease is (or is not) hereditary; the supposed ; is not predisposing and exciting causes are the subject of epilepsy; has (or has not) attempted to commit violence on ......self or others." This certificate shall contain all the facts known to the maker regarding the insanity of the patient, and shall be signed and attested by a Justice of the Peace. REMOVAL OF PATIENTS. SEC. 6. The Superintendent, by authority of the Resident Board of Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have power to require the removal of any patient, paying or non-paying, whenever, in their opinion, it is advisable to do so. PATIENTS FROM COURTS OF CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. SEC. 7. When the plea of ......... insanity is urged on behalf of any person charged with a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment or death, the court shall charge the jury that if, from the evidence, they believe the defendant to be insane, and that it would endanger the peace of the community to set him at liberty, they shall so find. Upon such finding, the court shall direct an order to the Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane to receive and keep the defendant as others-which order, together with the defendant, the Sheriff of the county shall deliver to the Superintendent. When, in the opinion of the Trustees and Physician, such patient has recovered from his insanity, they shall cause him to be delivered to the Jailer of Davidson county for safe-keeping, and immediately transmit to the Clerk of the county in which the patient was arraigned, notice of the fact. SEC. 8. That the provisions of this act shall apply to patients for admission to the hospital for the colored insane. SEC. 9. That all laws and parts of laws in regard to the admission of patients into the Hospital for the Insane, in conflict with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed December 14, 1871. |