and whereas, the superintendent of the State Insane Asylum has signified his readiness to receive said James Doe as an inmate of said asylum; Now, therefore, you are hereby commanded to take the said James Doe into custody, and to deliver him without delay, to the superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Little Rock, Arkansas. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this fourteenth day of June, 1899.

(SEAL)

John Marshall, County and Probate Judge.

Form No. 11223.1

State of Colorado,
County of Arapahoe.

SS.

In County Court, June Term, A. D. 1899. The People of the State of Colorado to the Sheriff of Arapahoe County, and to the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum of the State of Colorado, Greeting:

Whereas, at the June term of the County Court of said county and state, on the tenth day of June, A. D. 1899, it being one of the regular days of said court of said term, upon the complaint 2 of John Doe filed in our said County Court, alleging that one James Doe is a person so distracted and disordered in his mind as to endanger his own person and the persons and property of others if allowed to go at large, which complaint was duly verified by the said John Doe, the said James Doe was, by the verdict 3 of the jury regularly impaneled and sworn, and by the judgment and consideration of our said County Court, adjudged and decreed to be a person so distracted and disordered in his mind as to endanger his own person or the persons and property of others if allowed to go at large.

It is ordered that the said James Doe be by the sheriff removed hence to the common jail of Arapahoe county, and thence conveyed by the said sheriff, with all convenient speed, to the Insane Asylum of the State of Colorado, at Pueblo, in said state, there to be delivered to the superintendent or keeper thereof, to be by him kept and confined therein as the law directs until discharged upon inquest had according to law. We therefore command you, the sheriff of said county of Arapahoe, that you take the said James Doe and him safely convey to the common jail of Arapahoe county, and there him safely keep and detain and remove and convey him from there, with all convenient speed, to the Insane Asylum of the State of Colorado, and then him safely deliver to the superintendent of the said insane asylum, together with this warrant.

And do you, the said superintendent, receive the said James Doe and him confine in the said insane asylum, and him safely keep and care for according to the judgment of our said County Court as aforesaid, and as the law directs.

Witness, the Hon. John Marshall, my hand and seal this tenth day of June, A. D. 1899.

The People of the State of Illinois to the Sheriff of the County of Cook, Greeting: 2

You are hereby commanded forthwith to apprehend John Doe, who has been declared to be insane, and to deliver him to the superintendent of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Springfield, Illinois, and you are hereby authorized to take to your aid two assistants if deemed necessary, and of this warrant make due return to this office after its execution, with the receipt of the superintendent indorsed on back hereof.

Witness my hand and the seal of the County Court of Cook County, at Chicago, this fifteenth day of November, A. D. 1893. (SEAL)

John Lamb, County Clerk.

Form No. 11225.

(Horner's Stat. Ind. (1896), § 2855.)3

SS.

State of Indiana,
County of Fulton. S
To John Knight, Greeting:

Whereas, the proceedings necessary to entitle John Doe, of said county, to be admitted to the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, as a patient, have been had according to law; You are hereby commanded to forthwith arrest said person, and convey him to said hospital. You are further authorized to take to your aid two

assistants.

After executing this warrant, you shall make due return to this office.

Witness my hand and the seal of the Fulton Circuit Court, this first day of November, A. D. 1894. (SEAL)

John Lamb, Clerk.

Form No. 1 1226.

(Kan. Gen. Stat. (1897), c. 131, § 27.)3

In the matter of the insanity of John Doe.

To Richard Roe, guardian of John Doe: You are hereby com

manded without unnecessary delay to take John Doe, adjudged to be insane, and deliver him into the custody of the superintendent of the state insane asylum, together with the accompanying warrant1 to the steward directed, and return within thirty days this precept, with the receipt of the superintendent indorsed thereon.

(SEAL)

Abraham Kent, Probate Judge.

PRIVATE PATIENT.

Form No. I1227.

(Mich. Pub. Acts (1897), p. 136.)9

State of Michigan,

County of Lenawee.

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SS.

At a session of the probate court of the county of Lenawee, holden at the probate office in the city of Adrian, on the first day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

Present, Abraham Kent, judge of probate.

In the matter of John Doe, an alleged insane person.

To the Medical Superintendent of the Northern Michigan Asylum: Having received the certificates of Alexander Hamilton and William West, duly qualified medical examiners in insanity, appointed by this court, by whom John Doe of Adrian, an alleged insane person, was personally visited and examined, and after notifying the said John Doe of the proceedings to be taken in his case, and having taken the testimony of John Knox, Jane Doe and Nathan Hale, credible witnesses, and having fully investigated the facts in the case with (or without) the verdict of a jury as to the question of insanity, I, the judge of probate in and for said county, do find that the said John Doe is insane, and a fit person for care and treatment in the Northern Michigan Asylum.

It is therefore ordered that the said John Doe be removed to the Northern Michigan Asylum, there to be supported as a private patient. Abraham Kent, Judge of Probate.

At a session of the said probate court holden at the probate office in the city of Detroit, on the first day of November, A. D. 1898. Present John Marshall, judge of probate.

In the matter of John Doe, an indigent insane person (or pauper). This day having been assigned for hearing the petition now on file in the court alleging that John Doe, a resident of Detroit in said county, is insane, and praying that the said John Doe may be admitted to the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Detroit, there to be supported at the expense of the county of Wayne, and having notified the said insane person and the other persons and officials required by law to be notified of the time and place of hearing said petition, and having filed the certificates taken under oath of Alexander Hamilton and William West, two legally qualified physicians, and having taken the testimony of other credible witnesses, and having inquired into his settlement, and having fully investigated the facts in the case with (or without) the verdict of a jury as to the question of insanity, I, the judge of probate in and for said county, do find that the said John Doe, is in indigent circumstances (or a pauper), and certify that satisfactory proof has been adduced showing the said John Doe to be insane, and that he has acquired a legal settlement in said county (or that he has not acquired a legal set

Precedent. -In Palmer v. Buck, 83 Mich. 528, the following order is set out, to wit:

State of Michigan,
County of Lenawee. S

insane person at present resides, or the time and place of hearing said petition, and having filed the certificates, taken under oath, of Drs. Abram Stephenson and Wm. E. Jewett, two legally qualified physicians, and having taken the testimony of Wm. E. Jewett and Margaret Scott, credible witnesses, and having inquired into her settle

At a session of the probate court for the county of Lenawee, holden at the probate office in the city of Adrian, on the 19th day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-ment, and having fully investigated nine.

Present, R. B. Robbins, judge of probate.

In the matter of Mary Vetter, an Indigent Insane Person.

This day having been assigned for hearing the petition, now on file in this court, of Margaret Scott, superintendent of the State Industrial Home for Girls, alleging that Mary Vetter, a resident of the Industrial Home for Girls, in said county, is insane, and praying that said Mary Vetter may be admitted to the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo, there to be supported at the expense of the county in which it is shown she is a resident; and having duly notified the said Mary Vetter (there being no known relative of the said Mary Vetter in said county), also D. B. Morgan, prosecuting attorney for said county, and Wm. H. Knight, supervisor of the town of Adrian, in which said Industrial Home for Girls is situate, and in which said

the facts in the case, without the verdict of a jury as to the question of insanity and indigence, I, the judge of probate in and for said county, do find that said Mary Vetter is in indigent circumstances, and certify that satisfactory proof has been adduced showing the said Mary Vetter to be insane; that she has not acquired a legal settlement in said county of Lenawee, but is a resident of the county of Kalamazoo; and that her estate is insufficient to support her under the visitation of insanity.

It is ordered that the said Mary Vetter be admitted to the Michigan Ásylum for the Insane, under and according to the provisions of section 23 of Act 135, Laws of 1885, there to be supported at the expense of the county of Kalamazoo, until restored to soundness of mind, if effected within two years, and until otherwise ordered.

Richard B. Robbins,

Judge of Probate."

tlement in said county, but has a legal residence in the county of Wayne in said state, or that his legal residence is unknown), and that his estate is insufficient to support him and his family under the visitation of insanity.

It is, therefore, ordered that the said John Doe be admitted into. said asylum, and there supported at the expense of the county of Wayne until restored to soundness of mind, if effected within two years, and until otherwise ordered, and that said proceedings be reported to the board of supervisors of said county at their next annual meeting.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said probate court at Detroit, this first day of November, A. D.

1898.

(SEAL)

John Marshall, Probate Judge. I hereby appoint and direct John Styles to take said John Doe to the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, with full power and authority for that purpose.

John Marshall, Judge of Probate.

State of Minnesota,
County of Mower.

Form No. I1229.

(Minn. Stat. (1894), § 4684.)1

SS.

In Probate Court.

In the matter of the insanity of John Doe.

To the Superintendent of the St. Peter State Hospital.

John Doe having been, upon examination, found to be insane, you are therefore required to receive him into the hospital and keep him there until legally discharged.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the probate court of said county, this first day of November, A. D. 1894.

(SEAL)

Abraham Kent,

Judge of Probate, Mower County, Minnesota.

Form No. 11230.2

The State of Mississippi,

To the Sheriff of Tate County, in said State:

Whereas, James Doe was, on the sixth day of June, A. D. 1899, duly adjudged a lunatic or insane by a jury of six freeholders, competent jurors of the body of said county. You are, therefore, hereby commanded to arrest the said James Doe forthwith, and place him in one of the asylums of the state of Mississippi for the care and treatment of lunatics and insane persons, if there be a vacancy; and, if not, to confine him in the jail of said county until there be room in one of said asylums.

1. See, generally, the list of statutes cited supra, note 2, p. 77.

2. Mississippi. - Anno. Code (1892), 2836. See also statutes cited supra, note 2, p. 77.