1. The number and designation of the civil executive officers Hitell's Codes are as follows: of 1876, § 343. Directors of. * five directors for the in sane asylum at Stockton; five directors for the insane asylum at Napa; a medical superintendent of the insane asylum at Stockton; two assistant physicians of the insane asylum at Stockton; a resident physician of the insane asylum at Napa; one first assistant physician of the insane asylum at Napa; provided, when the number of patients shall increase to six hundred, the trustees may elect one aditional second assistant physician, with the same pay and emoluments as the first assistant physician; a treasurer of the insane asylum at Stockton; a treasurer of the insane asylum at Napa; 2. All officers, boards of officers, commissioners, trustees, regents, and directors, required by law to make § 352. * * * * Officers when reports to the governor or legislature, to report. *** must send such reports to the governor before the first day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and in every second year thereafter. 3. There must be printed § 334. Copies of report to be printed. * of the report of the directors, resident physician, visiting physicians of the insane asylum, twenty-five hundred copies; *** 4. The reports must be delivered by the superintendent of state printing, as follows: * * to the officers of reports. of each of the insane asylums, five hundred copies of their report. § 335. Distribution Act of 1878, 767. * 5. The superintendent of the state insane asylum, at Stockton, or one of his assistants, may attend the Superintend annual meetings of the superintendents of the eastern meet American Institutions for the Insane, and the expenses, not to exceed four hundred dollars per annum, must be audited and allowed by the board of exam ents to attend ings. iners, and paid out of the state treasury. The resident physician of the Napa state asylum for the insane, or one of his assistants, may also attend such annual meetings, and the expenses, not to exceed four hundred dollars per annum, shall also be audited by the board of examiners, and paid out of the state treasury; provided, that the medical superintendent, or one of his assistants, of the Stockton asylum, may attend said meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and the resident physician, or one of his assistants, of the Napa asylum may attend said meeting in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and thereafter the said physicians shall attend said meeting alternately. 6. The following executive officers are appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate: * * * * * $ 368. $369. Term of office. * 2. The directors of the insane asylum. 7. The officers mentioned in the * ** second (preceding) subdivision for the term of four years, * * 8. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the directors of the insane asylum holds only for unexpired term of his predecessor. the board of 1003 Vacancy in board of directors. Location and 9. The insane asylum, located at Stockton, is under the management and control of a board of directors, § 2136. consisting of five persons appointed and holding control of asytheir offices as provided in tit. 1, part 3, of this code. (See ante, pl. 1, 6.) lum. 10. The powers and duties of the board of directors of the insane asylum are as follows: (1) To make by-laws,, not inconsistent with laws of the state, for their own government, the government of the asylum. § 2137, as the amended 1883, and ch. 61. Duties of directors. (2) To hold stated meetings at the asylum for the transaction of business on the first Monday in each month. (3) To keep a record of their proceedings, open at all times to the inspection of any citizen. (4) To elect a medical superintendent, two assistant physicians, and a treasurer. (5) To provide on the asylum grounds suitable apartments, furniture, provisions, and lights for the medical superintendent and his family; and to allow a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per month to each of the assistant physicians for the subsistence of themselves and their families. (6) To make diligent inquiry into the departments of labor and expense, the condition of the asylum, and its property. (7) To report to the governor a statement of the receipts and expenditures, the condition of the asylum, the number of patients under treatment, and of such other matters touching the duties of the board as is advisable. $2138. Moneys for support, how 11. If the board approve the estimates made under the provisions of section 2153 [pl. 17], it must notify the controller of state, who must draw his warrant for drawn. the amount estimated in three equal sums out of any moneys in the state treasury appropriated for the use of the asylum. § 2139. Directors to contract for supplies. 12. Upon the receipt of each report provided for in subdivision 5 of section 2152 [pl. 16], the board of directors must advertise for contracts for furnishing the supplies therein specified, for three successive weeks, in one newspaper in each of the cities of Stockton, Sacramento, and San Francisco. The contract must be awarded to the lowest bidder, upon his giving satisfactory security for the faithful performance of the same. § 2140, of directors. 13. The directors shall not be directly or indirectly interested in any contract or contracts for supplies furnished said asylum, but shall receive, as their comCompensation pensation, the sum of ten dollars per day for their services in attending monthly or called meetings of said board, and such mileage as is provided by law for members of the legislature of this state, payable out of any moneys set apart by law for the use and benefit of said asylum, as other bills and accounts against the asylum are paid; provided, the amount so received as per diem compensation for services shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and forty dollars per year to each director. 14. The medical superintendent must be a graduate in medicine, and must have practiced his profession perintendent. five years after the date of his diploma. § 2150. Medical su 15. His term of office is four years from and after his § 2151. Term of office. election. 16. He is the chief executive officer of the asylum, with § 2152. Powers. powers and duties as follows: (1.) To control the patients, prescribe the treatment, and prescribe and enforce the sanitary regulations of the asylum. (2.) With the consent of the board of directors, to fix the number and compensation of, and appoint, control, and remove the attendants and assistants. (3.) To prescribe and enforce the performance of the duties of the attendants and assistants. (4.) To prescribe and enforce the performance of the duties of the assistant physicians. (5) To ascertain and report to the board of directors the amount, character, and quality of provisions, fuel, and clothing required for the six months ending on the first of May and November in each year. (6) With the consent of the board of directors to make any expenditure necessary in the performance of his duties, except for provisions, fuel and clothing. (7) To receive and pay to the treasurer all moneys found upon insane persons. (8) To keep a daily record of his official acts in the mode prescribed by the by-laws. (9) To make up his annual accounts to the first of July in each year, and as soon thereafter as possible to report a statement thereof, and of the general condition of the asylum, to the board of directors. must estimate 17. He must estimate, quarterly, in advance, the probable expenses of the asylum, and submit such estimate § 2153. Supt. to the directors, at their stated meetings, for their expenses and consideration and approval. report to directors. 18. The annual salary of the medical superintendent is thirty-five hundred dollars. § 2154. Salary of med. supt. 19. He must execute an official bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars. § 2155. Bond of med. supt. 20. The assistant physicians must be graduates in medicine. § 2165. Assist. phys. $2166. Term of office. 21. Their term of office is four years from and after their appointment. 22. They must perform the duties and exercise the powers prescribed by the medical superintendent or the by- $2167. laws. Assist, phys. duties 23. During the absence or disability of the medical superin phys, when to $2168. Sen. as. tendent the assistant longest in commission must perform his duties and exercise his powers. act as supt. 24. The annual salary of each assistant physician is twenty$2169. Salaries five hundred dollars. of assist. phys. 25. No member of the board of directors is eligible to the § 2179. Treas. office of treasurer. 26. The treasurer holds his office at the pleasure of the $2180. Treas. board of directors. tenure of office. 27. It is the duty of the treasurer: § 2181. Treas., gen'l duties. (1) To act as secretary of the board of directors. (2) To keep the accounts of the board and of the receipts and expenditures. (3) To report on the first Monday in each month to the state board of examiners a statement under oath of the expenses of the preceding month. (4) To perform such other duties as may be required of him. by the by-laws or board of directors. 28. The annual salary of the treasurer is six hundred dollars. § 2182. 29. He must execute an official bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars. § 2183. § 2193. Salaries, how paid. 30. The salaries and compensation fixed by the provisions of this chapter must be paid monthly out of the moneys appropriated for the support of the asylum. 31. The official bonds required by the provisions of this chapter must be approved by the board of directors, Approval and and filed and recorded in the office of the secretary § 2194. filing of offi cial bonds. of state. 32. The medical superintendent and each assistant physician § 2195. Resi- must reside on the asylum grounds. dence of phys. Business of 33. The officers mentioned in the preceding section must $2196. not engage in the. private practice of medicine, but physicians. must devote their whole time to the performance of their duties, unless granted leave of absence by the board of directors. Act of 1872, 34. An act to provide further accommodation for the insane of the state of California, and to provide a special Prof fund therefor. [This act provides for the establishMar. 6, 1876. ment of a new asylum for the insane; for the seded by act |