Reports and other documents relating to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, Mass / Printed by the order of the Senate.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Reports and other documents relating to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, Mass / Printed by the order of the Senate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sect 2 The said jurors shall be selected in equal numbers from the town in winch the trial shall be had and one adjoining town or from two adjoining towns, as the judges aforesaid respectively sha direct and the same proceedings shall be had in selecting an emp X-* i>. “■>ii' wi,h shall be in attendance, shall be entitled to such compensation as is p scribed in the twenty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes : provided that in the counties of Suffolk and Nantucket all the jurors may talcpii from the some town. , • j Sect 3 The said judges respectively shall preside at sue n , and administer to the jury an oath faithfully and impartially to try said issue and the verdict of the jury shall be final on said complaint. Se’ct 4 If there shall not be a full jury of the persons summoned by reason of challenges or otherwise, the said judges respectively cause the officer who summoned the jury, or in his absen attending the jury, to return some suitable person or persons to supply the deficiency, and they shall have the same authority as the sup^ ^ judicial court and court of common pleas have y aw attendance of jurors and witnesses, and to inflict fines for non-atten - “sect 5 The expenses of such trial, including the fees of all ne¬ cessary witnesses, shall be certified and allowed by the said judges re¬ spectively, and paid out of the treasury of the county in which such ‘sect'a6 The salaries of the Superintendent, the Assistant Physi¬ cian Steward and Matron of said Hospital, shall be paid quarter y, out ^ the treasury of the Commonwealth, and warrants shall be drawn therefor and no charge shall be made against any lunatic, or any p son or corporation who shall be liable for his support at said Hospital, on account of said salaries. Sect. 7. The word « settlement,” in the ninth section of the said forty-eighth chapter of the Revised Statutes, shall be construe an taken to mean residence, in all adjudications which shall be had there¬ on • provided, that if it shall be made to appear that the lunatic for whom payment is demanded has no settlement within this Common- incurred on his account, as provided in said section. [ pprove pn 19, 1837.1