Annual report of the State Hospital Commission. 1895

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State Hospital Commission, 1895

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Page 660 - Nothing in this constitution contained shall prevent the legislature from making such provision for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and juvenile delinquents, as to it may seem proper...
Page 358 - An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice, by which a party prosecutes another party for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offence. § 3. Every other remedy is a special proceeding.
Page 660 - Payments by counties, cities, towns and villages to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions, wholly or partly under private control, for care, support and maintenance, may be authorized, but shall not be required by the Legislature.
Page 511 - The Legislature shall provide for a state board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character...
Page 512 - ... a state commission in lunacy which shall visit and inspect all institutions, either public or private used for the care and treatment of the insane (not including institutions for epileptics or idiots) ; a state commission of prisons which shall visit and inspect all institutious used for the detention of sane adults charged with or convicted of crime, or detained as witnesses or debtors.
Page 554 - Under one month One to three months Three to six months Six to nine months Nine months to one year One year to eighteen months . . Eighteen months to two years. Two to three years...
Page 511 - ... but including all reformatories except those in which adult males convicted of felony shall be confined; a state commission in lunacy which shall visit and inspect all institutions, either public or private, used for the care and treatment of the insane...
Page 660 - The members of the said board and of the said commissions shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and any member may be removed from office by the Governor for cause, an opportunity having been given him to be heard in his defense.
Page 660 - Commissioners of the state board of charities and commissioners of the state commission in lunacy, now holding office, shall be continued in office for the term for which they were appointed, respectively, unless the Legislature shall otherwise provide. The Legislature may confer upon the commissions and upon the board mentioned in the foregoing sections any additional powers that are not inconsistent with other provisions of the Constitution.
Page 1 - Governor a full report of their acts, together with such facts in regard to the insane and the management and conduct of the asylums and institutions for their care and treatment as they may deem necessary for his information, to which they shall add in proper form and detail the measures which in their opinion are best adapted to improve the care and treatment of the insane; said report to be transmitted by the Governor to the legislature with his recommendations.

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