Parish settlements and the practice of appeals ... / Jellinger C. Symons.

  • Symons, Jelinger C. (Jelinger Cookson), 1809-1860.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Parish settlements and the practice of appeals ... / Jellinger C. Symons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Where asylum is supported by two counties jointly.— Sect. 43 enacts, “ That in all cases where two justices are empowered to make an order on the overseer or overseers of any parish for the payment of reasonable charges of convey¬ ance of pauper lunatics, or for the payment of weekly or monthly sums for the maintenance, clothing, and care of such poor persons, it shall be lawful for two justices of the county in which such county lunatic asylum shall be situate, to make such order on the overseer or overseers of any other county which shall jointly maintain such asylum.” Persons disordered in their senses to he proceeded with in like manner.—Sect. 44 enacts, in the case of an insane person, though not chargeable, brought before justices, that, u if upon the examination of such person deemed to be insane, or from other proof, the said justices shall be satisfied that such person is so far disordered in his senses that it is dan¬ gerous for such person to be permitted to go abroad, the said justices shall make inquiry into the circumstances and place of last legal settlement of such insane person, and it shall be lawful for such justices to proceed in such case in the same manner as has hereinbefore been directed in the case of a person chargeable to any parish within the jurisdiction of the said justices,” &c. The first proceeding is to send the pauper lunatic with all possible dispatch to an asylum by the following warrant, which is that named in sect. 38, and given by the act. Form of warrant for conveying the lunatic to an asylum. Whereas it appears to us , of his Majesty’s justices of the peace for the county of , having called to our assistance , a physician [or surgeon, or apothecary, as the case may 6e], that , chargeable to the parish of , in the said county, is lunatic, [insane, or a dangerous idiot, as the case may be\ you are hereby directed to cause the said to be conveyed to the county lunatic asylum established at or to the house of , situate at , in the county of , the said house being a house duly licensed for the reception of insane persons. Given under our hands and seals this day of To the overseers of the poor of the parish of