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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0597 and id is 1 raw text is: 18 Public Buildings.-Lunatic Asylums.
CHAP. 14.-An ACT amending the act, entitled an act authorizing the pur-
chase of a lot for the accommodation of live stock taken to the scales to be
weighed.
[Passed January 13, 1846.]
Additional ap- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That in addition to the
propriatlon to sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars, appropriated by the act, en-
weighing live titled an act authorizing the purchase of a lot for the accommoda-
stock.
See Acts 1843-4, tion of live stock taken to the scales to be weighed, passed Febru-
ch. 81, p. 60. ary the twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, for the purchase
of a lot and enclosing the same, in or near the City of Richmond,
containing not less than half all acre tior more than one acre of
land, for the accommodation of live stock taken to the scales for the
purpose of being weighed, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars
shall be and the same is hereby appropriated for said purpose, to be
drawn from the treasury, and used under the same rules and regula-
tions as in said act prescribed, it having been ascertained upon due
enquiry that the said former sum is insufficient for the said purpose.
Commencement. 2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
CHAP. 15.-An ACT concerning the admission of patients into the lunatic
asylums of this commonwealth.
[Passed January 16, 1846.]
Insane slaves 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the directors of
msTy he admitted the Eastern lunatic asylum for the maintenance and cure of insane
into the Eastern
asylam, persons, be and are hereby empowered to receive into the said asy-
lum insane slaves as patients, on application of their owners, or of
Security required others having said slaves in charge: Provided, That such applica-
for payment or tion be in every case accompanied by an obligation, with security, to
hospital charges. be judged of by the said directors, to pay to the said directors an-
nually such charges as may be agreed upon between the person ma-
Inuana whites king the application and the said directors; and provided no insane
not to be excl.- slave shall be received or retained in said asylum to the exclusion of
ded by admission
of slaves, any insane white person being a resident of the state.
When non-resi- 2. The eleventh section of the act concerning the lunatic asy-
(letinsane tiay lm
be admitted into ltreS of the commonwealth, passed March the sixth, eighteen hun-
both asylums. dred and forty-one, shall hereafter be so construed as to apply to in-
See Acts 1843-413
c. 15, 11, p. 39. sane persons without the state of Virginia, applying for admission as
patients into the Eastern and Western asylums, and proposing to pay
board, it being distinctly understood that such applicant shall never
be received unless when there are vacancies in the asylums not ap-
And when re- plied for by insane patients within the state; and further, that such
quired to hr wvitb- aft
drawn, insane person, after he or she may have been admitted into the asy-
lums, may at any time be required by the superintendents thereof to
be withdrawn therefrom by his or her friends.
When non-resi- 3. And be it further enacted, That if at any time hereafter the
dent ilsale saidhy
lie removed to said asylums shall be filled by the reception into them of insane pa-
make room for tients coming from abroad, and application shall be made for admis-
residents. sion therein by the friends of the insane resident within this com-
monwealth, it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the keepers
thereof, under the direction of the president and court of directors
of said asylums, to cause a vacancy or vacancies to be made therein
by sending back to his or her home some one patient or more, as the
Expense of rome- case may require, at his, her or their expense; it being the object
val. and desigt or the legislature of Virginia, in making provision for the
unfortunate of this class, to give a preference to those residing within
their own state over those coming and received from foreign states.
Commeneentt. 4. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0597&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)