Anno quarto & quinto Victoriae Reginae. Cap. LX. An Act to alter and amend certain Acts regulating madhouses in Scotland; and to provide for the custody of dangerous lunatics.

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Date:
1841]
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Credit: Anno quarto & quinto Victoriae Reginae. Cap. LX. An Act to alter and amend certain Acts regulating madhouses in Scotland; and to provide for the custody of dangerous lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Register Book to be all such Particulars up to the latest possible Date, shall, after being carefully sealed up, be transmitted, on or before the Fifth Day of January in each Year, to the Sheriff Clerk of the County in which such licensed Madhouse is situated, or if any such Madhouse shall be given up or discontinued as such during the Currency of the Year, then within a Week of the giving up or discontinuing the same ; and any Keeper of any such Madhouse, disregarding or neglecting any of these Pro¬ visions, either as to the keeping of such Register, or duly trans¬ mitting the same, shall for every such Offence be liable in a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds. XII. And be it enacted, That the Sheriff-Clerk of every preserved^ County receiving such Register Book shall, without breaking the Seals affixed thereto, exhibit the same to the Sheriff, who, after making such Examination thereof as he may deem proper, shall again seal up such Register Book, and shall cause the same to be preserved in the Sheriff-Clerk's Office ; and it is hereby specially provided that such Seals shall not be broken, or any Inspection of the Contents of such Register Book take place, without any Cause shown to the Satisfaction of the Sheriff, or without his written Authority ; and any Person removing any such Seals, or taking or admitting to be taken any Inspection of the Contents of such Register Book, without such written Authority, shall be liable in a Penalty not ex¬ ceeding’ Twenty Pounds. Fees of Li- XIII. And be it enacted, That where it shall appear, from b^rbmb^the annual Accounts rendered by the Sheriff of the Expences ished. incurred by his Direction in carrying the said recited Acts and this Act into effect, that the Monies received by the Sheriff- Clerk for Licences granted under the said Acts, together with the Monies received by the Procurator Fiscal for Penalties imposed by virtue of the said recited Acts and of this Act, exceed the Sums required for carrying the same into execution, it shall be lawful for the Sheriff, and he is hereby required from Time to Time to take and direct to be taken for each of such Licences such smaller Sum as will in his Estimation be ade¬ quate to defray such Expences, and no more; and thereafter, if such smaller Sum shall not be found to prove adequate, again to raise the same to such Sum, as shall in his Estimation be adequate to meet such Expences, and no more; such Sum in no Case to exceed the Sums authorized to be taken by the said recited Acts and this Act. Recited XIV. And be it enacted, That the said recited Acts shall interpreted aPPty R>, anc^ interpreted with this Act, for the more with this effectually in all respects carrying the same into execution. Act- XV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended AmendedbC°r rePea*ed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of this Session. Parliament,