patient, if not paid by himself or his relatives or friends, shall be paid by the county; and if furnished by the institution, shall be collected from the county, as now provided in the case of insane patients in the hospitals for the insane. The traveling or incidental expenses of the patient, and also of the officer or person in charge of said patient, to and from said. institution, shall be paid by the county; the fees of medical examiners and other officers, witnesses and persons, growing out of the proceedings for commitment of the patient to said village for epileptics, shall be paid in the same manner and at the same rate as provided by law for the inquiries concerning the commitment of insane persons to the state hospitals for the insane.

3134r. Transfer from hospitals-Costs.-18. At any time it is found. desirable to transfer any patient from any hospital for the insane in this state, or from the school for feeble minded youth to the Indiana village for epileptics, such patient may be transferred upon the recommendation of the medical superintendent or superintendents of such hospital for the insane or school for feeble minded youth, and the superintendent of the Indiana village for epileptics. If desirable at any time, such case may be referred to the secretary of the board of state charities for investigation and recommendation. The cost of transfer of any patient from one institution to another shall be paid by the institution making the transfer, and shall be paid out of the maintenance fund of said institution; and upon the receipt of proper receipt and vouchers for such expense, the auditor shall allow credit to the maintenance fund of such institution for a like amount from the general fund.

3134s. Order of admissions.-19. When said village for epileptics is prepared to receive patients it shall receive them in the order as provided for in section 11 of this act, it being understood that such acceptance shall be distributed equitably among the several institutions. It is further provided that commitments shall be instituted for inmates of the school for feeble minded youth whom it may be desirable to transfer to the Indiana village for epileptics in the same manner as is herein prescribed for other patients, and the cost of such commitment shall be paid out of the maintenance fund and credited by the auditor of state in same manner as prescribed for the expense of transfer in section 18. 3134t. Rules and regulations.-20. The board of trustees is empowered to make such rules and regulations respecting the care, custody and discipline of patients and the management of the institution and its affairs as it may deem best for the interests of the patients and the state. All persons admitted to the institution shall, until properly discharged from said institution, be under the custody and control of the superintendent; and the superintendent may, subject to such regulation as the trustees see fit to adopt, restrain and discipline any patient in such manner as he may judge is demanded for the welfare of the patient and the proper conduct of the institution.

3134u. Discharge.-21. No person shall be discharged from the said village for epileptics until, in the judgment of the superintendent, the mental and physical condition of the patient justifies it.

3134v. Trustees-Meetings.-22. The board of trustees shall meet once each month. They shall keep a full account of their proceedings in a book to be provided for that purpose. The superintendent shall make monthly reports to the trustees, shall make a full report to them at their annual meeting, and the trustees at that meeting shall make a full report to the general assembly, accompanying the same with the annual report of the superintendent. The keeping of records, inventories and accounts shall be, so far as practicable, in conformity with existing laws regarding institutions for the insane, and settlement shall be made with the auditor of state monthly, in accordance with existing laws.

ARTICLE 8.-SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' ORPHANS' HOME.

SEC.

3159a. Agents to secure homes.

SEC.

3159b. Per diem, expenses, appropriation.

[Acts 1903, p. 118. In force April 23, 1903.]

3159a. Agents to secure homes.-1. That it shall be the duty of the trustees and superintendent of the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home to employ an agent or agents, whose duty it shall be to procure homes in private families for the inmates of said institution, and visit said inmates in homes so procured; that said board of trustees and superintendent shall formulate such rules and regulations governing said agent or agents as in their opinion will be for the best interests of the wards of said institution and of the state.

3159b. Per diem, expenses, appropriation.-2. For the per diem and expenses of said agent or agents there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars annually, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to cover the per diem and expenses of said agent or agents; the per diem of said agent or agents not to exceed three (3) dollars per day. And the per diem and expenses of such agent or agents as may be employed by the trustees and superintendent of the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home shall be paid out of the moneys so appropriated, and it shall be the duty of the auditor of state, upon the receipt from the trustees and superintendent of a statement of services and expenses of said agent or agents to draw his warrant upon the treasurer of state for the amount so certified.

[Acts 1903, p. 166. In force 3206a. Superintendents, salaries.-1.

ers.

April 23, 1903.]

That the several boards of trustees for the Central Hospital for the Insane, the Northern Hospital

for the Insane, the Southern Hospital for the Insane and the Eastern Hospital for the Insane are hereby authorized to fix at their discretion the amount of compensation of the several superintendents of said hospitals respectively: Provided, That the consent of the governor shall have been first secured in each case.

3209. Admission of patients.

If a person is declared on examination to be insane and is admitted to the hospital for the insane, and is afterwards discharged as cured, persons subsequently dealing with the insane person are no required to take notice of the inquest proceedings when such insane person is apparently sane at the time of the dealing. Leinss v. Weiss, 33 App. 344.

[Acts 1905, p. 26. In force April 15, 1905.]

3232a. Southeastern district-Admission to hospital.-8. The counties of Monroe, Brown, Bartholomew, Lawrence, Jackson, Jennings, Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland, Jefferson, Scott, Clark, Floyd and Washington are hereby constituted and designated as the southeastern district, and all persons resident in said district heretofore or hereafter adjudged insane and eligible to admission to an insane hospital as heretofore, now or hereafter provided by law, shall be admitted to and cared for by the hospital herein provided for, and when said Southeastern hospital for the insane shall be completed, organized and ready for the reception of patients, the governor shall issue his proclamation reciting such facts, and he shall thereupon order transferred from the Central hospital for the insane to said Southeastern hospital for the insane all inmates therein at such time who shall have been committed from any of the counties hereintofore named in this section, and from and after the issuance of such proclamation all persons having a legal settlement in either of said. counties, who shall be adjudged insane and eligible for admission to a hospital for the insane under any law then or thereafter in force, shall be received by and cared for by said Southeastern hospital for the insane. The governor shall have power to require the superintendent of the said Southeastern hospital for the insane to remove from the Central hospital for the insane all inmates whose removal is provided for in this section, and the expense of such removal shall be paid, as by law provided, out of the funds hereafter appropriated for the maintenance of said Southeastern hospital for the insane: Provided, That the governor of Indiana may transfer any county to or from said district, as public convenience may require.

Sections 1 to 7 of this act provides for the appointment by the governor of commissioners to locate and construct in the southeastern portion of the state an additional hospital for the insane, and sections 10 and 11 defines additional powers of such commissioners and makes appropriations for carrying on the work.

3232b. Trustees-Appointment-Duties, powers.-9. Upon or before the completion of the said Southeastern hospital for the insane the governor shall appoint a board of three trustees for the management thereof in all respects as provided by the acts of the general assembly of Indiana

of 1897, page 157, in force March 5, 1897, so far as said act may be applicable, and the governor shall, in making such appointments, fix the time when such trustees shall take office, and the said board of trustees so to be appointed shall qualify, organize, serve, control, conduct, manage and govern said Southeastern hospital for the insane under and pursuant to all laws now or hereafter in force in reference to the Northern, Eastern and Southern hospitals for the insane so far as the same may be applicable and pertinent; and said board of trustees shall have and enjoy the same tenure of office, pay, powers, privileges and responsibilities as are now or may hereafter be conferred by law upon the boards of trustees of said last mentioned hospitals, all under and pursuant to the same rules. and laws, so far as applicable and pertinent, and all laws and parts of laws not in conflict with this act heretofore or hereafter enacted for the government and control of said Northern, Eastern and Southern hospitals for the insane, so far as applicable, are extended to and declared to embrace and govern said Southeastern hospital for the insane.

3250a1. Establishing county hospitals.-1. That whenever it shall appear to the board of county commissioners of any county in the state of Indiana, by petition or otherwise, that there is a demand for a hospital within such county, and that the interests of the county and its citizens will be best subserved by the establishment and maintenance of such hospital, such board shall be empowered to provide such hospital by purchasing suitable grounds therefor, and constructing suitable buildings thereon, and otherwise improving the same for hospital purposes, and to fully equip and furnish such hospital, and to receive and accept donations in property or money therefor, and to do all and singular the things necessary to acquire, establish, construct, equip and maintain such hospital: Provided, however, That if the real estate or grounds for such hospital shall be acquired by purchase at a cost to the county of one thousand dollars or more, and said grounds shall be of the value of one thousand dollars or more, then said board shall only be empowered to purchase same with the consent of the county council.

3250b1. Contracts with county commissioners.-2. That in any county in this state where a hospital association has been or may hereafter be organized and incorporated under any law of this state, if such association shall convey or cause to be conveyed to any such county suitable

and acceptable grounds for a hospital site for the purpose of a hospital in such county, and such association shall also guarantee the furnishings and equipments for such hospital, and shall satisfy such board of county commisioners of such county of its ability to make good such guarantee, or in any county in this state where there is, or where there may hereafter be, such hospital association organized and incorporated under any law of this state, and where such county is itself the owner of grounds with a building or buildings already constructed thereon, not otherwise at the time in actual use, which grounds would afford an acceptable site, and which buildings by remodeling and repairing, and by properly furnishing and equipping the same, could be made suitable for a hospital and for hospital purposes, and such association shall guarantee at its own expense the necessary remodeling and repairing of the said building or buildings and the proper furnishing and equipment thereof for such hospital uses and purposes, and shall satisfy such board of county commissioners of such county of its ability to make good such guarantee, then such board of county commissioners is hereby empowered on behalf of such county wherein the grounds for such hospital site are to be conveyed by such hospital association therein, to such county, to enter into contracts with such association with reference to the construction of suitable buildings for hospital purposes upon such grounds to be conveyed, and when conveyances are made, to construct thereon such buildings, and at the expense of the said county, and in any county where the grounds with buildings already thereon, are owned by the county, but where the remodeling and repairing, furnishing and equipment thereof so as to make such buildings suitable for hospital purposes are to be done, made, furnished and provided by the said association and at its own cost and expense, then the board of county commissioners in the said county, is hereby empowered to enter into contracts with the said hospital association for the leasing on the part of the said county, to the said hospital association, for the purposes of such hospital, of the said property, and for such period of time when used for such purposes, but to revert and the possession thereof to be surrendered to said county when not so used, and upon such other terms and conditions as by and between the said county and the said hospital association, may be mutually agreed upon. [As amended, Acts 1905. p. 37.]

3250c1. Governing board, appointment, terms.-3. Such hospital and the affairs and business thereof shall be under the management and control of a governing board, consisting of eleven members, three of whom shall be composed of the county commissioners of such county, and if such hospital shall be provided [and] acquired without the aid of a hospital association, as in this act provided, the remaining eight members thereof shall be appointed by the judge of the circuit court of such county. And the members of said board so appointed by said Judge shall be appointed to serve for terms as follows: Four of said members so appointed to serve for a period of one year and four for two years, and annually therafter, on the first Monday of June of each year, such judge shall appoint successors to the members of such governing board, other