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AN ACT, BETTER MANAGEMENT OF THB PROVINCIAL LUNATIC ASYLUM, AT TORONTO* lA^enM to Uih Jum, ld5S.] WhtftiA^ it is 6Jc|)edi6ttt to mattfe b6ttfet p^^^tlsldft ibt ih lAtn>m^nX bt the Pi'dvliieid Luftlitib Asylu^ at ^t>rontb : fie it th^J-^fOrift feJiAfct'Sd by th6 Qitefeti's Mdtft Excellent Majesty, by and with tb6 adviftie aftd tdnfidnt >f the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly foi'the Province of Canada^ dOudtituted and assembiedb^ virtue of and under the authority of ah Act passed in %hb Parliament of the United Klingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled. An Act to te-unile ike Pmvinces t^ tipper and Lower Canada^ and for the Government cjt Canada^ and it 4s hereby enacted by the authority of thd same. That the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh* eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth sections of thd Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, passed in the second year of Her Majesty's Reigfl, «nd intituled, An Act to authorise the erection of an Asylum within this Pre^nee^ fir the reeqftivn qf Insane arnA Lvfmtie persMs, •nd BO wluch of any other pari of vM Act or any othef Act or Law, as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be and are hereby repealed. II. That the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Toronto, and all the property real and personal, and all effects belonging to it, shall be vested in the Crown. III. That the financial business and affairs of the said Institution shall be managed by an officer to be appointed by the Governor during pleasure, and to be called " The Bursar of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum," who shall give bonds in sucl^ sum as the Governor shall direct, for the due performance of the duties of his Office, and shall report the state of the income and expenditure to the Visiting Commissioners at each visit, and monthly to the Medical Superintendent hereinafter mentioned, quarterly to the Governor, and annually to each House of the Provincial Parliament, within ten days after the opening of each Session thereof. IV. That the Governor may appoint during pleasure a Medical Superintendent who shall reside in the Asylum, and who shall direct and control the medical and moral treatment of the patients,— hire and discharge from time to time the Keepers and Servants, — watch over the internal management, and maintain the discipline and due observance of the By-laws of the Institution,— report the condition thereof to the Visiting Commissioners at each visit, and annually to the Governor, and to each ^onse of the Provincial Parliament within ten days after the opening of each Session thereof. ,♦■.,. • . .. ' , ■ • ' ■ ' . v. That the Governor may appoint, at least, four lllVU^g A Vefti*. A, CniTirnjjBffinn i*rkna\afinrf t\C ranf Ifrtaa *Uin4 four four persons, only two of whoni shall be resident in Toronto, whose duty it shall be thoroughly to examine and report on the manner in which the Institution is conducted, and to examine and forward to the Governor, with their observations thereon, the reports respectively made to them by the Medical Superintendent and Bursar, and further, to frame such By-laws as may seem to them advisable for the peace, welfare and good government of the Institution, which By-laws shall have effect in the Asylum when the Governor shall have signified his assent thereto. VI. That the said Commissioners shall keep an exact record of all their proceedings, and transmit a copy thereof to the Governor signed by them or a majority of them. VII. That no person shall be received into the Institu- tion as a Lunatic without a Certificate from three Medical Licentiates, signed and verified by the Reeve of the Township or incorporated Village, or the Mayor of the City or incorporated Town from which the Lunatic may have been sent, and in the absence of the Reeve or May, or, by the Deputy or other person who shall for the time being be authorised to act in the place of the Reeve or Mayor, which certificate shall state that the subscrib- ing Medical Licentiates at the same time and in the presence of each other, examined the patient, and after due inquiry into all necessary facts relating to his case, found him to be a Lunatic; and such Certificate shall be fiufiicient authority to any person to convey the Lunatic to the said Asylum, and to the authorities of the Asylupfi to detain him therein so long as he shall continue to. be .insane^ . : VHf. !F)iat when any Lunatic sent to the Asylunn ahaU 1^ iiBder the^ age of tweoty^one years, and shall have a Father or Mother able to pay for his mainteuf^nce, or fhatl have a Guardian or Committee^ it shall t)e the duty ^f theBuFsar and Medical Superintendent to send a copy •f the Certificate mentioned in the last section attested under thenr hands, to the Father or Motheyr* Guardian or Committee, i^s the ^aae may be, o^such Lunatic^ to which «apy the said Medical Buperintendent and Bursar^ shujl guAserihe a Certificate of the admission of such l^m^atic, and of the amount which will become due for hilQ p^r %HUt^X tQ t^^ A§yl»tm b^ %H l?y-l^ ws therepf. IX,. Th^t U shftll l^e. lawfiil for the Bursar, conjointly with the Medical Superintendent, on the first day of each of the months of January, April, July and October, and ikifhig the time the Luaatic shall remain in the Asyhim, le/ demand f^om the Father or Mother, Guardian qr C^ommittee, as the oase may be, of such Lue admissioii •I the littaatsQ, such deipand shall l^^e for a sitm propoir- lieBate to thii hrqkeA period ekpsf^ since th^ admission •f Ihe iiunatie, and oa the discharge of the liupatfo a lihe demand shall he made fi)r the mm due for the h^qken faridd: aiqoe the then last quarter day ; and in ease pf yeftsal or. i^^leet to pay tfee same, the said Bursar may apply to the Oaun ty Judge of the County in iwhich such yiither ar pother, Guardif a or Committee may reside, i^«|ii AfMmlU and the said Judge, on the return of a Kttle, w shall posses^ or become . possessed of or entitled to any real or pepso^al property whereby the expenses of his maintenance in the Asylum can be paid, and he shall have no Guardian or Committee lawfl^lly appointed to take the care or managciirent of the same for the ben^t of the Lunatic, then if any sucb, demand as aforesaid fbr the sum due for the mainteoanoe of the Lunatic in th€) Asylum be not paid on demand, or there be no one of whom it can be demanded, and such property shall, in the opinion of the Bursar, be more thaa^ sufflcient to maintain the ftimily (if any) of such Lunat)c« it shall be lawful for the said Bursar to take possession pf such property, or so muck thereof as he may thiiitc necessary to pay or to secure the payment of the sum due or to heeome 4iie, fop the support and mainteniince of the Lunatic in the Asylun^* and he shall have full po^tr Ay«r and be oampetcoit ta nsaRiige and appropria^ take ttr veeoncjF poaae^sion. oJ& kc«s^ H^oFtgag^ sell aB4 ciuivay all or any p^rt of sueh p^p^vty ia thji nanM sif such Lunatic^ or as hiS' Committee under this Act, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as such Lunatic could or might do, if of full age and of sound and disposing mind; Provided, that before any sale and conveyance of any real property of such Lunatic, the Bursar shall report the case with the terms of the pro- posed sale to the County Judge of the County within which the property is situate for his approval, and such sale and conveyance so approved, shall be valid and binding upon the Lunatic and his heirs; And provided further, that such Bursar shall be liable to render an account as to the manner in which he shall have managed the property and effects of such Lunatic in the same way and subject to the same responsibilities as any Trustee, Guardian or Committee duly appointed for a similar purpose may be called upon to account. andt] atedl XI] elude word of a I wife case, XI and E tieth three XI. That in all cases mentioned in the next preceding Section, if doubt or opposition arise as to the right of property, it shall be lawful for the Bursar or the person claiming the property, to apply to the County Judge of the County in which such property shall be, to cause an inquisition to be held before such County Judge and to try and determine either by himself^ or by a jury when required by either party but not otherwise, the right of property ; which such Judge shall accordingly do. Xfl. Ttiat the Governor of this Province may fix the salaries of the Medical Superintendent not to exceed Five Hundred Pounds, and of the Bursar not to exceed Thrae Hundred Pounds, and of the Commissioners not .«3Nexceed the rate of Twenty-Five Shillings jpcr ciiVm, >■ Act, as as such f sound sale and itic, the :he pro- within nd such ilid and >rovided ader an lanaged me way Prustee, similar and the same shall be payable out of any funds appropri- ated to the support of the said Asylum. XIII. That the word " County" in this Act, shall in- clude any Union of Counties for Municipal purposes; the word " Father" shall include any husband of the mother of a Lunatic, and the word " Mother" shall inclwde any wife of the husband of a Lunatic : provided, in either case, that the birth of such Lunatic be legitimate. XIV. That this Act shall apply only to Upper Canada, and shall come into force upon, from and after the Twen- tieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three, and not before. # •eceding right of 5 person udge of :ause an i and to y when right of ). / fix the exceed i exceed ners not er dienit