A: D. 1912,

may send persons to Hospital in crim

Sec. 3048. Any Judge of the Circuit Court is authorized to send to the State Hospital for the Insane every person when Judges charged with the commission of any criminal offence who shall, upon the trial before him, prove to be non composinal cases; mentis; and the said Judge is authorized to make all neces- support of. sary orders to carry into effect this power. Where the per- 2264. son so sent is not a pauper, he shall be supported out of his own estate, according to the regulations to be prescribed by the Court, as on a writ of de lunatico inquirendo.

Civ. '02, S

forwarded to

2265.

And patient

to be retained

Sec. 3049. The Sheriff or other person in charge of any Papers to be patient ordered to be conveyed to the State Hospital for the Hospital. Insane, whether such patient be a beneficiary or a pay Civ. '02, 8 patient, shall transmit the papers, or certified copies thereof, on which the order or commitment was based, to the Superntendent of the Hospital for inspection, and hold such patient without expense to the Hospital until notified by aid Superintendent that the patient can be received into he Hospital; and any Sheriff or other person violating the equirements of this Section by conveying a patient to the Iospital before receiving notice from the Superintendent Otherwise o to do shall be required either to keep charge of such expenses. atient in the city of Columbia or to furnish transportation ack home and to the Hospital again when notified that such atient can be received.

until ordered

forward.

Sheriff to pay

tained more

2266.

is entered on

Sec. 3050. No lunatic, idiot or epileptic who may be Lunatics, &c... eclared a fit subject for the institution by a Probate Judge not to be rend two physicians, or who shall be sent from a sister State, than ten days. hall be retained in the institution more than ten days after,. '02, § e first meeting of the Board of Regents, subsequent to his Unless order Imission, except where there shall be entered in the record for retention the institution an order for his retention, made after full record. amination of his state of mind by the medical attendant attendants and not less than two of the Regents, and upon Copy order ch order being made it shall be the duty of the Secretary or retention to Regency to make out a certified copy of the declaration Probate the Probate Judge and physicians, and of the order of tention, and immediately send the same to the Judge of obate of the County wherein such lunatic, idiot or epilepshall reside, who shall thereupon make such order in lation to the custody of the estate of the said subject as

be sent to

Judge.

A. D. 1912.

would have been made had the proceedings been under a take order for writ de lunatico inquirendo.

Who shall

custody of es

tate.

Sec. 3051. Whenever any lunatic or epileptic shall have Discharge of recovered, it shall be the duty of the Regents to discharge him or her from the State Hospital for the Insane.

lunatics.

Civ. '02, § 2267.

be

to.

recei v e d

Civ. '02, § 2268.

Sec. 3052. Inebriates or persons addicted to the opium or Inebriates to chloral habit shall not be received in the State Hospital for only as pay the Insane for treatment, unless they are dangerous or vio patients; regulati on s as lent; and should any Probate Judge, Circuit Judge, or Board of County Commissioners commit such a person who is a beneficiary, the Board of County Commis sioners of the respective Counties from which such persons are sent, shall pay to the Superintendent or Treasurer of the State Hospital for the Insane, for the maintenance of said beneficiary, the same sum upon the same terms required for pay patients; and no such bene ficiary patient shall be admitted unless the County from which such patient comes shall, at the time of admission and as a prerequisite thereto, pay to the said Superintendent two months' board ($41.60) in advance; and if the said County shall fail to pay subsequent claims for board for such patients as they shall fall due, to wit: at the beginning of each month, then the Superintendent of the State Hospi tal for the Insane shall have the right, and it shall be his duty, to file the account therefor as other claims are filed with the Board of County Commissioners; and if they refuse to approve and pay the same, to take legal steps to enforce the approval and payment of same; said account to be made out in favor of the Board of Regents of the State Hospital for the Insane, in whose name such proceedings shall be had: Provided, however, That any inebriate or per son addicted to the opium or chloral habit, voluntarily making application to be admitted into the Hospital for treat ment, may, at the discretion of the Board of Regents, be received as a pay patient; but no such person shall be received or retained in the Hospital when the accommodations provided for patients shall be inadequate for the proper care and treatment of lunatics and others lawfully commit ted to the Hospital.

Sec. 3053. It shall be the duty of County Supervisor or the municipal authorities of the city of Charleston, within

A. D. 1912,

moved from

Poor

Houses; by

hirty days after due notice from the Superintendent, to Certain paremove from the Hospital any patient, a beneficiary from tients to be retheir County or their city, as the case may be, who is simply the Hospital physically or mentally infirm, or is a harmless imbecile, and cared for idiot or epileptic, and they shall take care of all such per- whom, and sons in their respective poor-houses. But in all cases where upon what nopatients are discharged under the provisions of this Section, civ. '02, § t shall be lawful to retain them in the Hospital as pay patients.

tice, &c.

2269.

E m ployees to be charged, &c.,

the disfor assault on

patients.

Sec. 3054. It shall be the duty of the Regents to remove rom office, and cause to be indicted, any person employed in he said institution who shall assault any idiot, lunatic or pileptic, or use towards any such idot, lunatic or epileptic ny other or greater violence than may be necessary for his 2270. r her restraint, government or cure.

civ. '02, §

port of Re

2271.

in Regents of

2272.

May close up

Sec. 3055. The Regents shall report annually to the Leg- Annual relature the state and condition of the institution, fully and gents. articularly; and they shall also annually report to the Civ. '02, § omptroller-General the amount of income of said instituon, and the amount of expenditures and the items thereof. Sec. 3056. The lot upon which the Hospital stands, con- Lot vested ining four acres, butting and bounding on Upper Hospital. oundary, Bull, Pickens and Sumter streets, is vested in Civ. '02, § e Board of Regents of said Hospital and their successors office, for the uses and purposes of the Hospital. Sec. 3057. The Board of Regents are authorized to close and use, for the purpose of said Hospital, so much of ckens Street, in the City of Columbia, as lies between imber and Upper Streets of said city, to retain such porn of Upper Street as they have already enclosed, and so to close that part of Upper Street, in the plan of the d city, lying between Henderson and Barnwell Streets d adjacent to the Hospital grounds. Sec. 3058. All guards, keepers, employees and cers employed at the Hospital shall be exempted ving on juries, roads, and from all military duty.

other

and use cer

tain streets.

Civ. '02, §

2273.

officers and from empt from

employees ex

jury and military duty.

Civ. '02, § 2274.

A. D. 1912.

vertised and

To be ad- Sec. 3059. If an estray shall be found wandering in taken before or about the plantation of any freehold or settled resident. for appraise- such freeholder or resident is hereby authorized and empow ment. ered to take the same into possession, and shall advertise

a Magistrate

Civ. '02, § 2275.

Appraisement, certifi

filed.

Civ. '02, § 2276.

of

the same within three days thereafter, in three or more public places in the said County wherein the said person persons so taking up the said estray may reside; and the said person or persons shall, within ten days after advertis ing as aforesaid, take such estray to the nearest Magistrate. excepting hogs, sheep, neat cattle, or goats, which shall be appraised at the place taken up.

Sec. 3060. Every Magistrate before whom an estray shall cate of, to be be returned, shall cause the same to be appraised, on oath. by three proper persons in the vicinity, who shall certify their appraisement under their hands, together with an accurate description of the color, size, age, brands, and marks, of said estray; whereupon the said Magistrate shall enter the said certificate at large in his book; and shall. within ten days thereafter, send a duplicate of the said certificate to the Clerk of the Court of the County in which said estray shall be taken up.

Sec. 3061. At the same time such Magistrate shall cause the estray, if other than a horse or mule, to be advertised at

A. D. 1912,

To be ad

three or more public places in the County, one of which shall be on the Court House door, for two months, together vertised by with a notice where said estray is to be found; and, if a Magistrate. horse or mule, by advertising at the same places and in the 22'02, nearest gazette once a month for four months.

2277.

not claimed;

chaser may be

same sued on by

County Com

Civ. '02,

2278.

Sec. 3062. Where no owner shall appear and prove his To be sold if property within the time directed for advertising, it shall note of pur be lawful for such Magistrate and he shall cause the to be publicly advertised for ten days, and sold on a credit missioners. of six months, except the costs, to be paid in cash; and the purchaser shall give his note, with approved security, to the Magistrate, in the name of the County Board of Commissioners in the County wherein such estray shall be taken up; which note the said Magistrate shall deliver immediately to the said County Board of Commissioners for the County in which such estray shall be taken up, who shall have power, in default of payment, to sue for and recover the same.

vertisement.

Sec. 3063. For printing the said advertisement, the Pay for adprinter shall be entitled to one dollar, which shall be paid y the owner of such estray, or taken out of the sales of the

ame.

Civ. '02, § 2279.

Owner of estray may

sale and be

ity of note;

Sec. 3064. If any person shall put in a just and lawful laim to such estray at any time after the sale, and before claim it after he note becomes due, the County Board of Commissioners fore maturre hereby directed to give up the note to the claimant, on disposition of is paying the customary fees; but if no such owner shall purchase ppear, the County Board of Commissioners shall cause he amount of the same to be collected and appropriated to he proper use of the County.

money.

Civ. '02, § 2280.

A mo un t, &c., of sale to

record open

Sec. 3065. The Clerk of the Court shall file the duplicate rtificate of the appraisers and Magistrate in all instances be' recorded; estrays taken up, where the same shall be returned, and to inspection. so the certificate of such Magistrate, of the amount and Civ. '02, 8 sposition of the funds arising therefrom; the same being tered in the book of estrays, which shall always be subject the inspection of any person desiring to examine the same, e of charge.

2281.

Compensa

ing estray;

lec. 3066. As a compensation for keeping and maintain- tion for keep· estrays until the time of sale, it shall and may be lawful proviso. the taker up, at his option, either to put them to moder-Civ. 02,

83—C.

2282.