CHAPTER XLII. THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. Par. Par. 1775. Establishment of the Gov- 1778. Discharge of patients upon ernment Hospital for the 1776. The superintendent. 1779. bond. 1777. Admission of insane persons 1780. Payment of pensions to inof the Army, Navy, Ma rine Corps, etc. mates. 1775. There shall be in the District of Columbia a Government Hospital for the Insane, and its objects shall be the most humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the District of Columbia. Sec. 4838, R. S. The superin tendent. Sec. 3, ibid. Mar. 3, 1881, v. 21, p. 414. 1776. The chief executive officer of the Hospital for the Insane shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year, and shall give bond Sec. 4839, R. S. for the faithful performance of his duties, in such sum and with such securities as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent shall be a well-educated physician, possessing competent experience in the care and treatment of the insane; he shall reside on the premises, and devote his whole time to the welfare of the institution; he shall, subject to the approval of the visitors, engage and discharge all needful and usual employés in the care of the insane, and all laborers on the farm, and determine their wages and duties; he shall be the responsible disbursing agent of the institution, and shall be exofficio secretary of the board of visitors. Marine Corps, June 15, 1860. c. 1777. The superintendent, upon the order of the Secre- Admission of insane persons of tary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the the Army, Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, shall receive, and keep in custody until they are cured, or removed by the same authority which ordered their reception, insane persons of the following descriptions: PP. 93, 94; Mar. 3, 1875, c. 156, s. 5, v. 18, p. 486. Sec. 4843, R. S. First. Insane persons belonging to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and revenue-cutter service. Second. Civilians employed in the Quartermaster's and Subsistence Departments of the Army who may be, or may hereafter become, insane while in such employment. 66, s. 1, v. 12. p. 23; July 13, 1866, c. 179, ss. 1,2, v. 14, Discharge of patients upon bond. Sec. 9, ibid. Third. Men who, while in the service of the United States, in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, have been admitted to the hospital, and have been thereafter discharged from it on the supposition that they have recovered their reason, and have, within three years after such discharge, become again insane from causes existing at the time of such discharge, and have no adequate means of support. Fourth. Indigent insane persons who have been in either of the said services and been discharged therefrom on account of disability arising from such insanity. Fifth. Indigent insane persons who have become insane within three years after their discharge from such service, from causes which arose during and were produced by said service.1 1778. If any person will give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the supreme court of the District of Sec. 4856, R. S. Columbia, or by any judge thereof in vacation, payable to the United States, with condition to restrain and take care of any independent or indigent insane person not charged with a breach of the peace, whether in the hospital or not, until the insane person is restored to sanity, such court or judge thereof may deliver such insane person to the party giving such bond. Disbursement for the insane. 683. of appropriations 1779. All appropriations of money by Congress for the Mar. 3, 1855, c. support of the Hospital for the Insane shall be drawn from 199, 8.7, v. 10, P. the Treasury on the requisition of the Secretary of the Sec. 4858, B.S. Interior, and shall be disbursed and accounted for in all respects according to the laws regulating ordinary disbursements of public money.2 Payment of pensions to in. mates. Aug. 7, 1882, v. 22, p. 330. 1780. If any inmate of the Government Hospital for the Insane so admitted3 from said National Home is or thereafter becomes a pensioner, and has neither wife, minor child, nor parent dependent on him, in whole or in part, for support, his arrears of pension and his pension money accruing during the period he shall remain in said hospital shall be applied to his support in said hospital and be paid over to the proper officer of said institution for the general uses thereof. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 330). The right to admission to the Asylum has been extended by statute to include the following classes of cases: (1) To insane convicts serving sentences of confinement imposed by United States courts. Act of June 23, 1874 (18 Stat. L., 251). (2) To persons in custody charged with crime against the United States. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 202). (3) To inmates of the several branches of the National Home for Disabled Vol. unteer Soldiers who may become insane. Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 302). (4) To inmates of the Soldiers' Home who may become insane. Act of July 7, 1884 (23 Stat. L., 194). The expense of maintenance to be paid from the Soldiers' Home Fund. 2 The act of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat. L., 458), vests the supervision of the Asylum and the control over its management in the Secretary of the Interior. In accordance with the act of August 7, 1882. See note 1, supra. 1790-1814. The Gettysburg Na- 1856-1858. Forest reservations. tional Park. NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS. military parks May 15, 1896, v. Secretary of forces to be in War to designate 1781. That in order to obtain practical benefits of great Use of national value to the country from the establishment of national for maneuvers. military parks, said parks and their approaches are hereby 29, p. 120. declared to be national fields for military maneuvers for the Regular Army of the United States and the National Guard or Militia of the States: Provided, That the said parks shall be opened for such purposes only in the discretion of the Secretary of War, and under such regulations as he may prescribe. Act of May 15, 1896 (29 Stat. L., 120). The Secretary of War is hereby authorized, within the limits of appropriations which may from time to time be available for such purpose, to assemble, at his discretion, in camp at such season of the year and for such period as he may designate, at such field of military maneuvers, such portions of the military forces of the United States as he may think best, to receive military instruction there. The Secretary of War is further authorized to make and publish regulations governing the assembling of the National Guard or Militia of the several States upon the maneuvering grounds, and he may detail instructors from the Regular Army for such forces during their exercises. Sec. 2, ibid. PROTECTION OF MILITARY PARKS. 1782. Every person who willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any monument, statue, marker, guidepost, or other structure, or who willfully destroys, cuts, breaks, injures. or removes any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of any National Parks shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each monu structed. Sec. 2, ibid. ment, statue, marker, guidepost, or other structure, tree, shrub or plant destroyed, defaced, injured, cut, or removed, or by imprisonment for not less than fifteen days and not more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment. Act of March 3, 1897 (29 Stat. L., 621). Section 2. That every person who shall trespass upon any National Parks for the purpose of hunting or shooting, or who shall hunt any kind of game thereon with gun or dog, or shall set trap or net or other device whatsoever thereon for the purpose of hunting or catching game of any kind, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than five days or more than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. Sec. 2, ibid. Section 3. That the superintendent or any guardian of such park is authorized to arrest forthwith any person engaged or who may have been engaged in committing any misdemeaner named in this Act, and shall bring such person before any United States commissioner or judge of any district or circuit court of the United States within either of the districts within which the park is situated, and in the District within which the misdemeanor has been committed, for the purpose of holding him to answer for such misdemeanor, and then and there shall make complaint in due form. Sec. 3, ibid. Section 4. That any person to whom land lying within any National Parks may have been leased, who refuses to give up possession of the same to the United States after the termination of the said lease, and after possession has been demanded for the United States any by Park Commissioner or the Park Superintendent, or any person retaining possession of land lying within the boundary of said park which he or she may have sold to the United States for park purposes and have received payment therefor, after possession of the same has been demanded for the United States by any Park Commissioner or the Park Superintendent, shall be deemed guilty of trespass, and the United States may maintain an action for the recovery of the possession of the premises so withheld in the courts of the United States, according to the statutes or code of practice of the State in which the Park may be situated. Sec. 4, ibid. Section 5. This Act shall apply only to the Military Parks of the United States. Sec. 5, ibid. For other statutes respecting the punishment of offenses committed in national military parks, see section 10, act of August 19, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 333), section 7, act of December 27, 1894 (28 ibid., 597), and section 7, act of February 11, 1895 (28 ibid., 651). See also paragraphs 1792 1806, and 1921, post. For other statutes authorizing the lease of lands included within the limits of national military parks, see act of August 5, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 376), and section 3, act of December 27, 1894 (28 Stat. L., 597). See also paragraphs 1795 and 1817, post. |