[No. 277.] AN ACT making appropriations for the Michigan State Prison for a deficiency in the appropriation for general repairs for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seven; for building, general repairs and special purposes for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight; for general repairs for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, and to provide a tax to meet the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The sum of ninety-six thousand two hundred Appropriation for deficiency, fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the Michigan State building, etc. Prison for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred eight, for purposes and amounts as follows: For a de- For 1907. ficiency in the appropriation for general repairs for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred seven, five thousand dollars; for general repairs, six thousand five hundred dollars; for farm and lawn, five hundred dollars; for fire hose, five hundred dollars; for repairs to hospital, five hundred dollars; for stationery and blank books, seven hundred fifty dollars; for fitting and furnishings for the third floor of the main building, two thousand dollars; new machinery for shop number twenty, when rebuilt, fifteen hundred dollars; for power house and new system of heating, lighting and power, seventy-nine thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The further sum of four thousand seven hundred For 1909. fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for the Michigan State Prison for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred nine, for purposes and amounts as follows: For general repairs, three thousand five hundred dollars; for farm and lawn, five hundred dollars; for stationery and blank books, seven hundred fifty dollars. funds. SEC. 3. If the amount designated in section one of this Transfer of act for any one of the purposes stated be insufficient to complete the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of other work or purchase specified in said section may, by obtaining the consent in writing of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General, before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where a deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this provision being to make the entire ninety-six thousand two hundred fifty dollars available for the purposes stated in section one, if, in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General it is deemed advisable to make the transfers. SEC. 4. The several sums appropriated by the provisions How paid of this act shall be paid out of the State treasury to the out. Tax clause. treasurer of the Michigan State Prison at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe and the disbursing officer shall render his account to the Auditor General thereunder. SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven, the sum of ninety-six thousand two hundred fifty dollars and for the year nineteen hundred eight the sum of four thousand seven hundred fifty dollars which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Psychopathic ward, how purposes. [No. 278.] AN ACT to organize a State psychopathic hospital, to provide for the management thereof, and making an appropriation therefor, and to repeal act one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred one and act one hundred forty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The psychopathic ward at the University of equipped and Michigan hospital shall be a State hospital specially designed, equipped and administered for the care, observation and treatment of insanity, and for those persons who are afflicted with abnormal mental states but are not insane. State Psychopathic Hos pital. Board of trustees, of whom composed, etc. Term of office. Vacancy how filled. SEC. 2. It shall be known as the State psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan and shall be located at Ann Arbor. SEC. 3. It shall be under the control of a board of trustees, which board shall be composed of four members of the boards of trustees of the Michigan asylums for the insane and an equal number of members of the Board of Regents of the State University. The members of said board who represent the asylums shall be elected annually at the January meeting of the joint board meeting of the trustees of the Michigan asylums for the insane. The members from the Board of Regents of the State University shall be elected annually at their January meeting. SEC. 4. All said trustees shall hold their several offices for the term of one year, beginning on the first of February and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. SEC. 5. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said board of trustees, such vacancy shall be filled by the election of a member for any unexpired term from the board of asylum trustees, or Board of Regents of the State University, respectively, whose representation was vacated. etc., of hos SEC. 6. The government and sole control of the psycho- Board to pathic hospital at the University of Michigan shall be vested have control, in its board of trustees. They may take and hold in trust for pital. the State any grant or donation or personal property to be applied to the maintenance of the patients or for the specified or general use of the psychopathic hospital. They may make rules fixing charges to be made against private patients or may make special contracts for the care of the same. They shall No compennot receive any compensation for their services, but shall receive their actual and reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid in the same manner as the expenses of the trustees of the Michigan asylums for the insane. Said board shall: sation. First, Have the general direction and control of all prop- Control of erty and concerns of the psychopathic hospital not other property. wise provided for by law; Second, Provide its own by-laws, rules and regulations and By-Laws. see that its designs are carried into effect according to such by-laws, rules and regulations; medical Third, Appoint as often as vacancies occur, a medical Appoint director, who by virtue of his position shall be the patholo- director. gist of the State asylums for the insane and, with the approval of the Board of Regents of the State University, shall hold the position of professor of psychiatry in the department of medicine and surgery in the State University; Fourth, Appoint, on the nomination of the medical Assistant director, necessary assistant physicians; physicians. Fifth, Determine from time to time the salaries and al- Salaries. lowances of the officers and employes of the psychopathic hospital; etc., of Sixth, Establish by-laws, rules and regulations as they Admission, deem necessary for regulating the appointment and duties patients. of officers, assistants and employes, and for fixing the conditions of admission, support and discharge of patients, and for the business management and internal government of the psychopathic hospital; maintain an efficient inspection of the hospital, keep records of its doings; make a detailed Report. report to the legislature in each alternate year of the operations of the hospital, accompanied by the report of the medical director, business officer and treasurer. rector, chief SEC. 7. The medical director of the psychopathic hospital Medical di shall be its chief officer, and in his absence, sickness or in- officer, abcapacity, the first assistant physician shall perform the duties sence of. and be subject to the responsibilities of the medical director. SEC. 8. The medical director of the psychopathic hospital shall be in supervision and control of the hospital and direct the care and treatment of its patients, and shall: First, Nominate the medical officers of the hospital and When may suspend have power to suspend until the next meeting of the trus- officer. tees, a resident officer, but in such cases he shall forthwith Appoint and discharge at tendants,etc. Psychiatry professor, duties as. Medical di pathologist of asylums, duties. call a special meeting of the board of trustees to provide for the exigency and the' action of the board shall be final; Second, Appoint, with the approval of the trustees, such and so many other assistants and attendants as he may think necessary and proper for the economical and efficient performance of the business of the hospital; prescribe their duties and fix, subject to the approval of the trustees, their compensation, and may discharge from the psychopathic hospital any of them at his sole discretion, but shall keep a record in the hospital of such discharges with the reasons for the same. SEC. 9. As professor of psychiatry in the department of medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan, he shall give instruction to the students of the medical department of the State University in diseases of the mind. SEC. 10. The medical director of the psychopathic hosrector to be pital shall be the pathologist of the State asylums for the insane and, as such, it shall be his duty to advise regarding the clinical and pathological research in the several asylums of the State and to maintain a systematic co-operation be tween the several asylums of the State and psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan. He shall be the director and in sole charge of the clinical pathological laboratory of the psychopathic hospital. He shall from time to time. visit the asylums of the State and may advise and instruct the medical officers of such asylums in subjects relating to the phenomena of insanity and all expenses incurred in the visit of the pathologist to the asylums of the State shall be chargeable to the account of the asylum visited, and shall be paid upon presentation of an itemized account of the expenses incurred in the visit to said asylum. Member boards. SEC. 11. The medical director of the psychopathic hosjoint asylum pital shall represent the psychopathic hospital at the meetings of the joint board of trustees of the Michigan asylums for the insane, and, as such representative, he shall be a member of said board. He shall have no vote, however, in the matter of fixing the rate of maintenance of the patients at the several asylums, or in the approval of the salaries of the officers of the same. Medical officers of asylums to receive instruction. Treasurer of hospital, duties. Business officer, duties. SEC. 12. It shall be provided by rules of the trustees and the joint asylum boards, that the medical officers of the several asylums shall from time to time receive instruction at the psychopathic hospital at the expense of the asylums, respectively. SEC. 13. The treasurer of the State University shall be ex-officio treasurer of the psychopathic hospital, and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties as are provided for in public acts of nineteen hundred three, act two hundred seventeen, section ten and section eleven. SEC. 14. The superintendent of the University of Michigan hospital shall be the business officer of the psychopathic hospital. He shall receive such salary as the board of trus tees of the psychopathic hospital shall from time to time fix, and shall: for furniture, First, Under the direction of the director of the psycho- Accountable pathic hospital, be accountable for the careful keeping and etc. economical use of all furniture, stores and other articles of said hospital; chases. Second, Make all purchases for the psychopathic hospital Make purand preserve the original bills and receipts thereof and keep full and correct accounts of the same; with attend Third, Make contracts in the director's name with the offi- Contracts cers, attendants, nurses and assistants, and keep and settle ants. their accounts; Fourth, Keep the accounts for the support of patients and Accounts. expenses incurred in their behalf, and furnish the treasurer monthly, and at other times when requested by the director of the psychopathic hospital, statements of such as fall due; Fifth, Report to the treasurer the names and amounts due Report. and in arrears from private patients; duties. Sixth, Have general oversight, and under the direction of Further the director, have charge of all domestic departments of the hospital and of such other business as may be provided by the by-laws, or directed by the board of trustees, or such person or persons as may be appointed for such purpose by the board of trustees. SEC. 15. Patients admitted to the psychopathic hospital Patients, how are divided into two classes: divided. First, Public patients are such as are kept and maintained Public. by the State; Second, Private patients are such as are kept and main- Private. tained without expense to the State. admission. SEC. 16. Sections fifteen and sixteen of act two hundred Act governing seventeen, public acts of nineteen hundred three, shall apply to the patients admitted to the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, in all particulars not provided for in this present act. mitted. SEC. 17. Patients may be admitted to the psychopathic Patients adhospital at the University of Michigan in accordance with the following provisions: judged insane First, Persons adjudged insane according to the provisions Persons adof act two hundred seventeen, sections fifteen and sixteen, under certain public acts of nineteen hundred three, may be committed to act. the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, whenever, in the opinion of the judge of probate, it may be deemed advisable: Provided, That before such patient be Proviso. sent to said hospital, he shall obtain the approval of the director of the psychopathic hospital for such action. But, Lack of if an insane patient committed to the psychopathic hospital cannot be received because of lack of room, he shall be committed to the proper asylum in the district in which he resides and receive treatment until there is room for him at the psychopathic hospital, and if it appears in the course of his treatment in such asylum that he would not probably room. |