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An Act to Amend the Laws controlling the Asylum for the Insane. 1865-1866 5 (1865.1)

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had notice and still retained the dog or dogs in his pos-
session, and failed or refused to kill them, or permit any
one else to do so.
WILLIAM HEISKELL,
Speaker qf the House of Representatives.
JOSHUA B. FRIERSON,
Speaker of the Senate.
Passed November 3, 1865.
CHAPTER IV.
AN ACT to Amend the Laws controlling the Asylum for the Insane.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee, That Section- 1547 of the Code be so
amended that the Board of Trustees may hereafter receive
all pauper patients in the State, without regard to Sena- Pauper pa-
torial Districts : Provided, that in the reception of pauper tients.
patients, if it shall appear that the capacity of the Asylum
is not sufficient to properly take care of all the pauper
lunatics in the State that may apply, then the Board of
Trustees are required to properly apportion them among
the Several Senatorial Districts in the State as now pro-
vided by law.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Trus-
tees shall have power, and are hereby authorized, to pre-
pare on the farm belonging to the Institution, suitable
buildings for the reception of the colored insane of the Colored pa-
State, so as to keep them secure and safe, and yet separate tients.
and apart from the white patients, and for this purpose,
they are authorized, through the President of the Board,
to draw upon the Treasurer of the State a sum of money,
not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and said sum is hereby
appropriated out of the funds in the Treasury of the State
not otherwise appropriated.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Trus-
tees shall have power, and are hereby authorized, as soon To be admit-
as such suitable buildings are prepared, to admit into said ted
Institution colored insane, in the same manner and upon
the same conditions as now prescribed by law.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Trus-
tees shall have power to make any contract with County Co'ty Courts
Courts for the admission of indigent patients of each

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