Married women and infants. Expenses. Persons labor month before the time fixed for the reception of patients, the trustees shall, with the assistance of the medical superintendent, make a list of all the names furnished, and select from them the number to be received, having regard to the provisions of the act establishing the hospital; and notice shall thereupon be given to all persons who have furnished names as aforesaid of the persons so selected; and, also, that in case any patient so selected shall not be conveyed to the hospital within twenty days after the time fixed for the reception thereof, that another or other selections will be made, so that the person or persons not being conveyed as aforesaid will not be received until the further order of the board. § 10. Married women and infants, who in the judgment of the medical superintendent are evidently insane or distracted, may be received and detained in the hospital on the request of the husband, or the woman, or parent, or guardian of the infants, without the evidence of insanity or distraction required in other cases. § 11. The expenses of conveying paupers to the hospital shall be paid by the counties in which they reside, and the expense of carrying others shall be paid by conservators, husbands, parents or guardians; and in no case shall any such expense be paid out of "the fund for the insane." § 12. No person, laboring under any contagious or infecing under con- tious disease, shall be admitted into said hospital as a patagious dis eases. Sheriff to em when. tient. § 13. In conveying patients to the hospital for the inploy assistance, sane, the sheriff may employ one assistant for each patient, and the compensation to the sheriff shall be five cents per mile, going and returning, and two dollars per day, computing one day for every thirty-five miles travel, on the usual route of the United States mail, and one half of said amount to the assistant; which compensation shall be paid by counties, in cases of paupers, and by conservators, husbands, parents and guardians in other cases. Clothing. Penalties of bonds. § 14. Clothing for paupers shall be furnished or paid for by the counties in which they resided, and the judge of each county court shall furnish all necessary clothing, at the expense of such counties; and a certificate of the judge, of the purchase of clothing or goods to be made up for the use of patients, shall be received in payment of county revenue the same as county orders. § 15. Hereafter the penalties of bonds required of conservators shall be fixed with reference to the value of personal property and rents, and when orders are made for the sale of real estate by courts, additional bonds may be required, with conditions to account for the proceeds of such sales according to law: exempt from § 16. The medical superintendent shall not be required Medical sup't to serve on juries, work on roads, or to attend any court as jury service. a witness in a civil suit, but parties desiring his testimony in any case shall be allowed to take and use his deposition; nor shall he be required to attend as a witness in any criminal case, unless the court before which his testimony may be desired shall, upon being satisfied of the materiality of his testimony, require his attendance. Employees ex Biennial reps. § 17. All persons employed in the hospital, whilst so em-empt from jury ployed, shall be exempt from serving on juries, working on service, &c. roads, and in time of peace, from performing military duty. § 18. The biennial reports of the trustees to the general assembly shall hereafter be printed, under the direction of the board, before the meeting of the general assembly, so that said reports may be placed on the tables of the members during the first week of the session: Provided, that not more than one thousand copies shall be printed for the use of the general assembly, and a like number for the use of the hospital. Defi plied. of § 19. If the funds appropriated to defray the expenses funds, how sup of the Hospital for the Insane, for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one and fifty-two, shall prove insufficient, the governor may, upon being satisfied of the necessity thereof, make an order on the auditor, directing him to issue a warrant on the treasury for a loan, not exceeding five thousand dollars, payable in such sums and at such times as the governor may direct; and whatever amount may be so drawn from the treasury, shall be refunded out of the "fund for the insane," when collected. APPROVED Feb. 15, 1851. AN ACT to provide for the distribution of certain school funds herein named. In force Feb. 15, 1851. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Commissioners Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the to apportion. school commissioner of Cumberland county, be and he hereby is required to divide and apportion the interest on the school, college and seminary fund for said county, and the township trustees the township fund of the several townships which accrued for the year 1850 and is undistributed, or which may accrue for the year 1851, on an examination of scholars, to be made on or before first Monday of April, 1851. ed. § 2. Any district in said county which has neglected to Directors electelect their directors, may elect such directors by meeting at their school house on the first Saturday of March, 1851, at six o'clock, P. M.; of which meeting this act shall be § 3. This act to take effect from and after the passage. In force Feb. 15, AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to establish the Illinois Institution for 1851. Officers, term of limited. the Education of the Blind." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the term of office of the president and trustees of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind shall be and is hereby limited to two years; the trustees now in office shall continue in office until the governor, by and with the advice and How appointed. consent of the senate, shall appoint others; and it shall be the duty of the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, immediately after the passage of this act, to appoint five trustees for said institution; and the governor shall biennially hereafter, by and with the advice and consent of the senate as aforesaid, appoint five trustees for Vacancies, how said institution; and the board of trustees shall have the power, from time to time, to fill vacancies that may happen. by death, resignation or otherwise, in their own body, between the biennial appointments made by the governor. The board organized under the provisions of this act shall have all the powers, act under the same responsibilities, and perform the same duties as the present board. filled. tal for the in Officers of hospi- § 2. That the term of service of the president and trussane, term of tees of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, shall be office limited. and it is hereby limited to two years. The trustees now in office shall continue in office until the governor, by and How appointed. with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint others; and it shall be the duty of the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, immediately after the passage of this act, to appoint nine trustees for said institution; and the governor shall biennially hereaf ter, by and with the advice and consent of the senate as aforesaid, appoint nine trustees for said institution. And the board of trustees shall have the power, from time to time, to fill vacancies that may happen, by death, resignation or otherwise, in their own body, between the biennial The board organized have all the powers, Vacancies, how appointments made by the governor. under the provisions of this act shall filled. act under the same responsibilities, and perform the same duties as the present board. § 3. That in addition to the tax of one tenth of a mill Additional tax. on every dollar's worth of taxable property in the state, required to be assessed and collected by the act entitled "An act to establish the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind," approved on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, to aid in establishing and maintaining said institution, there shall be assessed and collected for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, a tax of one tenth of a mill upon every dollar's worth of taxable property in the state; the proceeds of which shall be applied to the completion of the building now in the course of erection, and which additional tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as the one tenth of a mill provided for in the act above recited. lected for two § 4. That if in any county the tax required to be assess- Tax to be coled and collected by this act shall not be collected for either years. or both of said years herein provided for, the same shall be assessed and collected for a subsequent year or years, so that said tax shall be assessed and collected in every county in this state for two years. and refunding the same. § 5. That the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby Appropriation appropriated to aid in the completion of the building for the Institution for the Blind, payable during the present years, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; which said sum of five thousand dollars shall be refunded to the treasury out of the proceeds of the tax provided for in this act. lected. § 6. That the special tax required to be assessed and Tax, how colcollected by the act to establish the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane shall be assessed and collected for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the manner and for the pur- pose. pose expressed in the said act. For what pur § 7. The number of trustees for the Hospital for the Trustees. Insane shall be reduced to seven. § 8. That if in any county there has been or shall be a failure to assess and collect the special tax, for any one or more years required to be assessed and collected for the use of the Hospital for the Insane, the said tax shall hereafter be assessed and collected in any such county the one or more years in addition to the years provided for in this act, so that the said tax shall be assessed and collected in every county in the state an equal number of years. Failure to col lect tax. the same. § 9. That the sum of six thousand dollars shall be and Appropriation, the same is hereby appropriated to aid in the completion of and refunding the building of the Hospital for the Insane, payable out of the treasury in sums of one thousand dollars, as the same may be required for use; which said sum of six thousand dollars shall be refunded to the treasury, out of the tax authorized to be collected under the provisions of this act. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 15, 1851. In force April, Drawn monthly. Proviso. Proceeds of farm how applied. AN ACT creating a fund for the education of the deaf and dumb. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the purpose of defraying the ordinary expenses of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, a separate fund is hereby created and established, in addition to the fund provided for in the act of incorporation, to be denominated "The fund for the education of the deaf and dumb," which shall consist of one sixth of a mill upon each dollar's worth of taxable property in the state, to be taken and deducted from the tax of two mills on the dollar authorized to be assessed and collected for paying the ordinary expenses of government, by the act passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fortyfive, entitled "An act to provide for paying a portion of interest on the state debt; and as the revenue of the state is collected and paid into the treasury, the auditor shall direct the treasurer to credit the aforesaid fund by the amount of said one sixth of a mill, in a separate account to be kept for that purpose. § 2. The said one sixth of a mill shall be collected and paid in current money of the United States, and shall be drawn from the treasury monthly, as required for use, upon warrants of the auditor: Provided, that not more than one hundred and twenty dollars per annum of said fund shall be paid for each state pupil attending said institution; and the president of the board of directors shall furnish the auditor with a catalogue of the pupils in attendance on the first of December and first of July, annually, and the excess of the said fund which shall remain after the payment of the said one hundred and twenty dollars per pupil, for each pupil shall be used in the erection of the north wing of the building until that is completed, and thereafter the said excess shall be transferred to the treasury and used for ordinary purposes of government. § 3. The proceeds of the sales of the productions of the farm and garden, and of sales of manufactured articles, and the receipts for work performed by the pupils and others in the employment of the directors, shall be applied to the uses of the institution, under the direction of the board of directors. |