Chap. 110.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1681 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved March 7, 1900, in relation to commitment of
certain persons to insane hospitals.

Approved March 28, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act to
amend and reenact section sixteen hundred and eighty- -one of the Code
of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March seventh, nincteen
hundred, in relation to the commitment of idiot and harmless dements to
the hospitals for the insane, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
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§ 1681. If any idiot be sent to or regcived in any hospital, the superin-
enidantt shall order him to be removed to the county or corporation whence
he came, and delivered to his committee, if he have one, or if not, to the
overseers of the poor, or any of them, who shall give a receipt for him.
The costs of such removal shall be paid out of his estate, if sufficient, but
if not, shall be provided by the said overseers at the charge of their county
or corporation.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.