Chap. 357.—An ACT to provide for the relief and detention by commit-
ment to the Western State hospital of any person who through use
of alcoholic liquors or habit forming drugs has become dangerous to
the public or himself, or unable to care for himself or his property
or family, or has become a burden on the public, his family or any
other person. (H. B. 308.)

Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
any person who through use of alcoholic liquors or habit form-
ing drugs has become dangerous to the public or himself, or un-
able to care for himself or his property or family, or has be-
come a burden on the public, his family or any other person,
shall, upon complaint of any person, be brought before a com-
mission of lunacy in the same manner and under the same pro-
cess as 1S provided by law for commissions of lunacy, and if said
person shall be found by said commission to be in the condition
above mentioned such person shall be committed to one of the
State hospitals for the insane, to be kept and held there until the
authorities of that institution shal] declare such person cured
and restored to his normal condition, when he shall be dis-
charged or paroled, as may seem proper to the authorities of
said institution.

2. Every person committed under this act who has prop-
erty in amount in excess of the homestead and other exemptions
to which he or she is entitled, shall be liable to the Western State
hospital, for the purpose of covering expenses and treatment, at
the rate of twenty-five dollars per month while detained there.