Chapter 738. To change the lunacy proceedings in the District of Columbia where the Commissioners of said District are the petitioners, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 738.— An Act To change the lunacy proceedings in the District of Columbia where the Commissioners of said District are the petitioners, and for other purposes. February 23, 1905. [[S. 6244](/us/bill/58/s/6244).] [[Public, No. 92](/us/pl/58/92).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Lunacy proceedings on petition of Commissioners.Vol. 32, p. 524. That hereafter the proceedings instituted upon petition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to determine the mental condition of alleged indigent insane persons and persons alleged to be insane, with homicidal or otherwise dangerous tendencies, shall be according to the provisions of the code of law for the District of Columbia relating to lunacy proceedings: *Provisos*.Services of criminal court jurors.*Provided,* That the jury to be used in case the said Commissioners are the petitioners shall he impaneled by the Ignited States marshal for said District, upon order of the court, from the jurors in attendance upon the criminal courts of said District, who shall perform such services in addition to and as part of their duties in said criminal courts:
Police court jurors.*Provided further.* That during such time as jurors are not in attendance upon said criminal courts the court may direct the said marshal to impanel the jurors in attendance upon the police court of said District, who shall perform such duties in addition to and as part of their Special jury.duties in said police court; or the said court may direct a special jury Appointment of trustee.to be summoned for such inquisitions. In case any such person adjudged to be of unsound mind has property, real or personal, the equity court of said District shall have full power in the same cause to appoint a committee or trustee of the person and estate of such person, Reimbursement.according to the provisions of said code, and sued committee or trustee shall reimburse, out of the funds of the lunatic, the District of Columbia for all court costs expended or incurred by it and for all moneys by it expended on costs incurred in earing for and treating such insane person up to the time of such appointment.
Sec. 2. Discharged patients. That in case any person adjudged to be of unsound mind in the District of Columbia who is committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane, or any other institution, recovers his or her reason, and who is discharged from such institutions as cured, the superintendent of said Government Hospital for the Insane, or the official in charge of any such other institution where such person has been tinder treatment and has been so discharged, shall immediately thereafter file with the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Sworn statement as to sanity of.Columbia his sworn statement that such person, in his opinion, was at the time of his discharge of sound mind, and such statement, shall be sufficient to authorize the court to pass an order declaring such person to be restored to his or her former legal status as a person of sound mind.
Approved, February 23, 1905.