Chap. 262.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1004, 1005, 1019, 1021, 1022.
1024, 1027, 1047,.1050, 1063, 1066, 1067, 1076, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082,
1085, and 1089 of title 12, chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate. [S B 144]

Approved March 16, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
one thousand and four, one thousand and five, one thousand and
nineteen, one thousand and twenty-one, one thousand and twenty-two,
one thousand and twenty-four, one thousand and twenty-seven, one
thousand and forty-seven, one thousand and fifty, one thousand and
sixty-three, one thousand sixty-three, one thousand and sixty-six, one
thousand and sixty-seven, one thousand and seventy-six, one thousand
and seventy-eight, one thousand and seventy-nine, one thousand and
eighty, one thousand and eighty-one, one thousand and eighty-two, one
thousand and eighty-five and one thousand and eighty-nine of title
twelve, chapter forty-six of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1004. Hospitals and colonies continued ; how managed.—The
State hospitals for the insane established at Williamsburg, Staunton,
Marion and Petersburg, shall be continued as established and located,
and shall continue to be under the management of the general board of
hospital directors and special boards of directors. The departments for
the criminal insane as established at the Southwestern State Hospital at
Marion and at Central State Hospital at Petersburg shall also be
continued as established and located. The said departments shall con-
tinue to be used for the purpose of holding in custody and caring for
such persons as may be declared insane or feeble-minded after convic-
tion of any crime and while serving sentence therefor in the peniten-
tiary, or in any other penal institution, or in any of the reformatories
or elsewhere ; and persons in custody under complaint or indictment
for any crime who, prior to trial, are, or may be, adjudged insane or
feeble-minded; such persons in custody under complaint or indict-
ment for any crime as the court may, in its discretion order there for
proper care and observation, pending the determination of their men-
tal condition, and persons who have been adjudged insane or feeble-
minded at the time when, but for such insanity or feeble-mindedness,
they should have been tried; provided, however, that it shall not be
lawful to receive into the criminal departments of such hospitals such
jceble-minded persons unless they be charged with or convicted of
elony.

The Virginia State Epileptic Colony, and the Virginia Colony for
Feeble-minded, as now located in Amherst county, shall be continued
as established and shall hereafter be known as the State Colony for
Epileptics and Feeble-minded, and shall continue to be under the
management of the general board of hospitals directors and the
special board of directors, and the colony for colored feeble-minded,
as now established on the grounds of the Central State Hospital shall
be continued as established as a department of said Central State
Hospital, and be under the management and control of the general
board of directors and of the special board of directors of the said
Central State Hospital, which said Central Hospital shall also have
under the same said management and control, a department for col-
ored epileptics. All patients adjudged to be feeble-mined or epileptic
by regular commissions to determine the mental condition of such
patients and committed as such to either of the above two institu-
tions therefor respectively whether by a commission and justice of
the peace, or by court order, who have been found by the superin-
tendent of such institution to be feeble-minded or epileptic and who
appear on the records of the institutions to have been so admitted,
are hereby declared to be lawfully committed patients of the State
Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded, or of the Colony for Colored
Feeble-minded, or of the said department for colored epileptics as
the case may be.

Sec. 1005. Location and corporate names of hospitals—The di-
rectors for each of said hospitals and their successors shall respec-
tively continue to be corporations; for the hospital at Wilhamsburg
with the name of the “Eastern State Hospital”; for the hospital at
Staunton with the name of the “Western State Hospital”; for the
hospital at Petersburg (established for the reception and treatment -of
colored persons of unsound mind) with the name of the “Central
State Hospital”; for the hospital at Marion with the name of the
“Southwestern State Hospital”; and the colony for the care of the
epileptic and feeble-minded at Madison Heights, Amherst county,
shall be a corporation with the name of the “State Colony for
Epileptics and Feeble-minded.” The special boards of the respective
hospitals and colonies, may receive gifts, bequests and endowments to
or for the respective hospitals or colonies in their names or to or
for any person or persons committed to or in the custody of such
hospitals or colonies, and when such gifts, bequests and endowments
are accepted by the special board of any of the said institutions the
said special board and its successors shall well and faithfully admin-
ister such trusts.

sec. 1019. Records, etc—The record of proceedings under this
chapter for the commitment of insane, epileptic, inebriate and feeble-
minded persons together with the warrant of commitment, shall be
made in duplicate, one copy of which shall be delivered by the judge
or justice to the sheriff or sergeant of the county or city and the
other copy filed in the office of the county clerk of the county or
clerk of the corporation court of the city who shall record the same
in a book to be kept for the purpose, either by copying into such
book the principal facts of such records of proceedings including the
name of the person committed, the name of the members of the com-
mission, the findings of the commission, the disposition made of the
case and the date thereof, or by inserting the papers themselves in a
proper prepared loose-leaf binder book. Such book shall be supplied
by the county or city, shall be kept properly indexed by the clerk
and shall be known as the “Record Book of Insane, Epileptic, In-
ebriate and Feeble-minded Persons.”

Sec. 1021. Fees and expenses.—The two physicians shall receive
a fee of five dollars each for their services. The justice of the peace
shall receive a fee of two dollars for his services, and all witnesses
regularly summoned before such commission shall receive such com-
pensation for their attendance and mileage as is allowed witnesses
summoned to testify before grand juries. The justice and each physi-
cian shall receive like mileage. All expenses incurred in committing
any person to any State hospital, or colony, including the fees, at-
tendance and mileage aforesaid, shall be paid by the county or city
from which such patient is sent, provided that in any case where
at the time he was so sent such person was not a legal resident of
the county or city from which he was so sent such county or city
shall be reimbursed all such expenses by the county or city of the
legal residence of such person at that time, such reimbursement to be
made by such county or city of the place of legal residence upon the
presentation to its board of supervisors or city council as the same
may be of a certificate from the clerk of the circuit court of the
county, or of the corporation court of the city making the payment
in the first instance showing such payments with the items and
amount thereof with an endorsement thereon by the clerk of the cir-
cuit court of the county or the corporation court of the city of suct
legal residence certifying that in his opinion and belief the fact o!
such legal residence has been established by affidavits or other evi.
dence filed or found in his office. | }

Sec. 1022. Disposition of insane, epileptic, feeble-minded anc
inebriate persons after commitment—The sheriff or sergeant tc
whose custody an insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate person
has been committed or within whose bailiwick the commission is held,
shall forthwith on the same day the person is so adjudged make ap-
plication to an appropriate hospital or colony for the admission and
transfer of such insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate person to
such hospital or colony transmitting a copy of the record of proceed-
ings before the commission with such application. Unless other-
wise instructed by the commissioner of State hospitals, the sheriff or
sergeant shall make such application to the nearest appropriate hos-
pital or colony. As soon as the record of proceedings before a com-
mission of insanity, feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, or inebriety, wherein
a person is found to be insane, feeble-minded, epileptic or inebriate,
is filed in the office of the courity clerk or of the clerk of the corpora-
tion court, that officer shall at once notify the commissioner of State
hospitals and the State Board of Charities and Corrections, giving
the name and age, sex, and color of the insane, epileptic, feeble-
minded, or inebriate person, the date of the finding of the commis-
sion and the custody to which such insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or
inebriate person was committed.

If such insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate person has
been committed to jail and after the expiration of six days from the
date of the finding of the commission he is still confined in jail, such
clerk shall notify the commission of State hospitals of the fact.

Sec. 1024. Duties of sheriffs and sergeants as to persons com-
mitted to State hospital—Before delivering an insane, epileptic,
feeble-minded or inebriate person to the authorities of a hospital or
colony, the sheriff, sergeant or other person having him in charge
shall see that he is clean, free from vermin or any contagious disease
and properly clothed. All persons applying for admission to any hos-
pital or colony shall be, when so required by the superintendent of
such hospital or colony, delivered to the agent of such hospital or
colony at the nearest or most convenient railroad station or steam-
boat landing to be designated by such superintendent, at the expense
of the county or city of the person committed, provided, however,
that the station or landing so designated by the superintendent shall
not involve a travel at the expense of any such county or city of a
greater distance by rail or boat than twenty-five miles from the nearest
railroad station or boat landing at the court-house of the county or city
of commitment or of the residence of the person committed. If any
person who has been committed to a hospital or colony, while in the
custody of a sheriff, sergeant or other person, shall escape, become
too sick to travel, die or be discharged by due process of law, said
sheriff, sergeant, or other person shall immediately notify the super-
intendent of said hospital or colony of that fact.

Sec. 1027. Conveyance of insane, epileptic, feeble-minded, and
inebriate persons to hospital or colony ; expense of transportation; how
paid—When application is made to the superintendent of a hospital
or colony for the admission of an insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or
inebriate person, he shall forthwith send an attendant from the hos-
pital or colony to conduct such insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or
inebriate person to the hospital or colony. Female attendants, shall
be assigned to convey female patients to the hospital or colony. If
for any reason it 1s impracticable to employ an attendant for this
purpose, then the superintendent may appoint some suitable person
for the purpose, or may order the sheriff or sergeant of the county
or city in which said insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate
person is held to convey him to the hospital or colony. If such in-
sane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate person is conveyed to the
hospital or colony by an attendant from the hospital or colony, or
by some person appointed by the superintendent, a certificate for
transportation for attendant and insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or
inebriate person shall be furnished by the superintendent of the
hospital or colony. If such insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or in-
ebriate person is conveyed to the hospital or colony by the sheriff or
sergeant, then such certificate for transportation shall be furnished
by the clerk of the circuit or corporation court, as the case may be.
Such transportation shall be over the route approved by the State
corporation commission. Provided, however, that it shall be lawful
for the superintendent of any hospital or colony to designate a dif-
ferent route from that designated by the State corporation commis-
sion for the delivery of any person to a hospital or colony when in
his opinion this is necessary for the safety or comfort of such per-
son, or to prevent loss of time in travel, or to save expense to such
hospital or colony in any case in which an attendant or officer may
have to convey more than one person on the same trip. An attendant,
sheriff or sergeant, or other person appointed for the purpose shall
receive for conveying an insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate
person to the hospital or colony only his actual expenses.

The cost of conveying persons committed to any hospital or
colony, except those committed to the department for the criminal
insane, from the railroad station or steamboat landing designated
by the superintendent of such hospital or colony shall be paid from
the funds appropriated for the support of said hospital or colony.
Unless authorized to do so by the commissioner of State hospitals or
superintendent of a hospital or colony, no officer shall be allowed any-
thing for carrying an insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate
person to or from any hospital or colony, either for himself or the
insane, epileptic, feeble-mined or inebriate person. ,

Sec. 1047. Habitations of patients—In any hospital or colony
each patient shall be deemed an inhabitant of the county or city in
which he had a legal settlement at the time of his removal to the
hospital or colony, and not of the county, city or town in which said
hospital or colony is located. Any child born in any colony or hos-
pital of a mother who was pregnant with such child previous to ad-
mission, or when admitted thereto, shall be deemed a resident of the
county or city in which the mother had legal residence at the time
of commitment and may be committed to the State board of charities
and corrections by the superintendent as a “dependent child” as defined
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and provided for in section nineteen hundred and five of this Code or
to the almshouse of the county or city of the child’s residence, if after
due notice by the superintendent any parent of such child, or next of
kin, shall fail or refuse to remove or provide for such child, the cost
of the removal of any such child and delivery to the State board
of charities and corrections, or to such person or institution as may
be designated by the State board of charities and corrections or the
almshouse of the county or city of the child’s residence shall be at
the expense of the county or city of the residence of such child.

Sec. 1050. When person adjudged insane court to appoint com-
mittee for him.—If a person be found to be insane by a judge or
justice of the peace before whom he is examined, or in a court in
which he is charged with crime, the circuit court of the county or
the corporation court of the city of which he is an inhabitant shall
appoint a committee for him, and when a person adjudged to be an
epileptic and committed to a hospital or colony is found by the super-
intendent thereof after observation and examination to be insane the
circuit court of the county or corporation court of the city of his
residence after reasonable notice to such person shall on the sworn
certificate of the superintendent that such person is insane, and upon
such other evidence as such court may deem proper and require, ap-
point a committee for him.

When the rights of creditors will not be affected, the committee
of any person lawfully committed to any such hospital or colony
may, after making adequate provision for those dependent on such
person or his estate for support, apply any part or the whole of the
residue of the income from his estate to the purpose of providing
such comforts and luxuries to such person as may be permitted by
the superintendent of such hospital or colony; and may pay the same
to the steward of such hospital or colony. The steward of any such
hospital or colony receiving money as prescribed in this section shall
annually on or before the first day of July, after such sum or sums
have been paid, render to the committee of the aforementioned person
an itemized statement, showing receipts and disbursements of money
received from such committee, accompanied by a certificate from the
superintendent of such institution that such expenditures were au-
thorized by him, and that none of the expenditures were for any-
thing in the ordinary maintenance of such person.

Sec. 1063. Punishment for aiding any abetting in the escape of
inmates of hospital or colony.—Any officer or employee of any hos-
pital or colony or any other person who shall aid or abet in the
escape or secretion of any lawfully committed inmate of any hospital
or colony, either while in the hospital or colony or on furlough bond
or escapement, or who having given written obligation to return a
furloughed patient under his care and custody to any hospital or
colony in which he is a patient shall when directed in writing to do
so by the superintendent of such hospital or colony, willfully fail or
refuse to do so, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 1066. Construction of words—Whenever the word hospital
is used in this chapter it shall be taken to mean State hospital for the
insane, and wherever the word colony is used in this chapter it shall
be taken to mean the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded
at Madison Heights, or the department for the colored feeble-minded
or for colored epileptics at the Central State Hospital at Petersburg.
Wherever the words “insane person” occur in this chapter they shall
be construed to include insane person who is not an idiot; wherever
the word “epileptic” is used in this chapter it shall be construed and
defined to mean “insane or demented epileptic” or any person suffer-
ing from epilepsy in any of its forms whether attended by fits or
convulsions or by periodical loss of consciousness without fits or con-
vulsions, who by reason of epilepsy in any of its forms is rendered
mentally or physically incapable of self-care or support and cannot
go at large unattended by some other person with safety to himself
or others, and who is or is likely soon to become a public charge.

Sec. 1067. Epileptics; where committed.—Whenever an epileptic
person is adjudged to be such, as defined in section one thousand and
sixty-six, by any commission held for that purpose if he be a white
person he shall be committed to the State Colony for Epileptics and
Feeble-minded at Madison Heights, and if he be a colored person he
shall be committed to a department for epileptics in the Central State
Hospital at Petersburg; but nothing in this chapter shall be con-
strued to forbid the necessary and temporary detention of any epileptic
or feeble-minded white person in any of the hospitals nor of any
insane person in the colony until he can be transferred to the proper
hospital or colony; and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to
authorize or permit a white person to be sent to or received at the
Central State Hospital or a colored person to be sent to or received
in any other hospital or colony than said Central State Hospital.

Sec. 1067. Separate departments to be maintained in colonies for
epileptics and feeble-minded.—There shall be maintained in the colo-
nies separate departments for the epileptics and feeble-minded so far
as practicable. Separate records and statistical notes of their medical
departments shall be kept, and report thereof shall be made by the
superintendent for each fiscal year in the biennial reports. Provided,
however, that all provisions of law applying to the care, and treat-
ment of the feeble-minded in any colony in which both epileptic and
feeble-minded are cared for and treated, shall, where not otherwise
expressly provided, apply to both classes alike so far as may be
practicable, and all patients admitted to the institution whether
feeble-minded or epileptic shall enjoy the same benefits and shal! while
in such institution be subject to the regulations and laws that apply
specifically to the one class or the other, so far as may be practicable.

Sec. 1078. Petition to have person declared feeble-minded—No
feeble-minded person shall be sent to any institution, except as here-
inbefore or hereafter provided. When any person residing in this
State shall be supposed to be feeble-minded, any reputable citizen
of the State may file a petition in the circuit court of the county, or
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corporation court of the city, or with the judge thereof in vacation,
or before any justice in the city or county in which such alleged
feeble-minded person is found, setting forth under oath the circum-
stances indicating the feeble-mindedness of the person named, the facts
of his social and financial condition and surroundings, and the names
and financial condition of the person, if any, having the custody or
control, and on whom he is dependent, together with the names of
his parents, or guardian, if he be a minor, or of the next of kin, if
any person occupying any of these relations to the person suspected
of being feeble-minded be known to the petitioner to be living in the
county or city in which the petition is filed.

Sec. 1079. Examination of alleged feeble-minded persons.—
Thereupon it shall be the duty of the judge or the justice with whom
such petition is filed to issue a warrant ordering such alleged feeble-
minded person to be brought before him and to summon the custodian
if any of the alleged feeble-minded person, together with the parent,
guardian, or next of kin named in the petition if they are found in
his county or city, and such other persons as may be deemed com-
petent to testify to the condition and circumstances of the alleged
feeble-minded person, including two physicians or one physician and
an approved mental examiner, such as is hereinafter defined and pro-
vided for, and to enter or issue an order fixing the time and place
for the examination of such feeble-minded person.. The judge or the
justice and the two physicians, one of whom shall, when practicable,
be the family physician, and neither in any manner shall be related
to or have an interest in his estate, or the judge or the justice and one
physician and approved mental examiner shall constitute a commis-
sion to determine whether or not such person is feeble-minded as al-
leged and whether such person is under such proper supervision, care
or control as to insure the welfare of himself, others or the community.

The depositions of all witnesses, physicians, and so forth, shall be
taken under oath and transcribed in writing.

The words “an approved mental examiner’ when used in this
section or in any section of chapter forty-six of the Code of Vir-
ginia shall be held to mean any person, male or female, skilled in
making the Binet-Simon or other approved mental tests and certified
as an approved mental examiner by the secretary of the State board
of charities and corrections and by the superintendents of the State
Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded and of the Central State
Hospital. If an approved mental examiner be not a member of such
commission the judge or justice may, if he deems proper, summon
such an approved mental examiner to testify as an expert witness
before such commission.

Any physician serving as a member of such commission shall re-
ceive a fee of five dollars and mileage. An approved mental examiner,
whether serving as a member of such commission or summoned and
testifying as an expert witness before such commission, shall receive
a fee of five dollars and mileage.
The justice shall receive a fee of two dollars for his services and
mileage.

Except such expert witness as aforesaid, all witnesses regularly
summoned and attending before such commission shall receive such
per diem and mileage as is allowed by law to witnesses summoned to
testify before grand juries, and all mileage allowances under this sec-
tion, including the mileage of such expert witness, shall be at the
same said rate. ,

Sec. 1080. Appointment of guardian or committee ; commitment.—
If the commission be Satisfied that such person is not feeble-minded,
he shall be discharged and the petition dismissed. If the commis-
sion be satisfied that such person is feeble-minded, said commission
may petition the circuit court of the county or the corporation court
of the city in which said commission is held, or the judge thereof in
vacation, and the said court or judge may appoint some suitable
person to be the guardian or committee of the person of such feeble-
minded person, and the said court or judge may also appoint the same
or a different person, guardian or committee of the property of the
feeble-minded person, and such guardian or guardians shall have the
right and duty which pertain to guardians of the persons and prop-
erty of the insane as provided for in this chapter, and shall give such
bond as may be required by said judge. The judge or justice acting
on the commission may commit such feeble-minded person to a pri-
vate institution approved by the State board of charities and cor-
rections, or to a State colony for the feeble-minded. And the said
judge or justice may commit said feeble-minded person to the custody
of the sheriff of the county or sergeant of the city in which said com-
mission is held, or to some other responsible person pending admis-
sion into the colony for the feeble-minded. Any person so adjudged
to be feeble-minded by a commission shall within ten days there-
after have the right of appeal to the circuit court of the county or
the corporation court of the city in which the commission was held,
or the judge thereof in vacation, and it shall be unlawful for any
sheriff, sergeant, other officer or person having the adjudged feeble-
minded person in custody to deliver such feeble-minded person to any
colony for the feeble-minded or the agent thereof while such appeal 1s
pending. Any person adjudged feeble-minded by a circuit or cor-
poration court shall have a right of appeal to the supreme court of
appeals. The cost of the proceedings upon a petition for determining
feeble-mindedness shall be defrayed in the same manner as 1s pro-
vided by law in proceedings to determine insanity. The records of
every proceeding before a commmission to determine the feeble-
mindedness of any person as provided for in this chapter inclusive of
petition, warrant, interrogatories and order of commitment to a State
colony for the feeble-minded shall be made in duplicate in writing,
and signed by the judge or justice and other members of the com-
mission and witnesses. The judge or justice shall forthwith on the
same day deliver or transmit to the sheriff of the county, or sergeant
of the city, one full copy of such record, and such sheriff or sergeant
shall forthwith on the same day received transmit to the superin-
tendent of the colony to which the person is committed, this copy of
the record and make application for his admission as is provided for
in this chapter in the case of the insane, epileptic and inebriate. The
judge or justice shall transmit forthwith and on the same day one
copy of the said proceedings to the clerk of the circuit court of the
county or the corporation court of the city.

Sec. 1081. Copies of order to board of charities and corrections
and superintendent of colony; admission and conveyance to same.—
Immediately upon receiving copy of record and order of commitment
directing that a feeble-minded person be sent to an institution or colony
for the feeble-minded, the clerk of the circuit or corporation court
shall send a copy of the order of commitment to the superintendent
of the colony to which such person has been committed for endorse-
ment by the superintendent of the fact that such feeble-minded person
has been received as provided for in the following section. Such
clerk shall also send to the State board of charities and corrections
such notice of commitment of the person to the colony for the feeble-
minded as is prescribed in section ten hundred and twenty-two for
notifying the State hospital commissioner of the commitment of any
insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate person.

Sec. 1082. Endorsement and disposition of commitment papers ;
superintendent to be notified of hearings——Upon receiving the feeble-
minded person the superintendent of the institution shall endorse upon
the commitment papers the fact that such feeble-minded person has
been received, naming the person or persons from whom the feeble-
minded person is received. One copy of the commitment papers so
endorsed shall be returned to the clerk of the circuit court of the
county or the corporation court of the city in which such commitment
was held, there to be filed in the office of the clerk, and noted on the
record of the proceedings, and another copy of the commitment papers
shall be kept by the superintendent, and the person delivering the
feeble-minded person shall endorse thereon the fact of such delivery.
The superintendent of any State institution or colony, or the person
having charge of the feeble-minded person shall be notified of the
time and place of hearing, upon any petition for the removal of the
feeble-minded person from his custody or for the variation of the
order of commitment.

Sec. 1085. Duties of courts when person before it appears to be
feeble-minded——When a person is brought before any circuit or cor-
poration court, juvenile court justice of the peace, or other court of
Justice for any purpose other than an inquiry into his mental condi-
tion, if it appears to the court upon the testimony of one or more
qualified physicians, or of an examiner skilled in making mental tests,
that such a person is feeble-minded within the meaning of the law,
the judge or justice shall direct an officer of the court or other suitable
person, to file a petition under this chapter, and the court pending the
preparation, filing and hearing of such petition, may order the said
person to be detained in a proper place for safety ; or be placed under
the guardianship of some suitable person, or committed to the depart-
ment of the criminal insane at the appropriate institution if he be
charged with felony, or to the proper State colony for the feeble-
minded if he be charged with a misdemeanor, for observation, under
such limitations as it may order pending the determination of the
mental condition of said person, suspected of being feeble-minded.

Sec. 1089. Forms for petition; warrant, interrogatories, etc.—All
blank forms for petition, warrant, interrogatories and commitment in
commiting the feeble-minded and epileptic shall be prepared in ac-
cordance with provision of this chapter for commitment of the in-
sane, epileptic, feeble-minded and inebriate, and shall be printed
through the public printer at the expense of the State colony for
epileptics and feeble-minded, and the colony for the colored feeble-
minded (a department of the Central State Hospital), and shall be
furnished to officers of the law on application to the superintendent of
the respective colonies free of charge; provided, however, that the
same forms as for feeble-minded shall be used for the commitment of
epileptics to the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded and
to the department for colored epileptics of the Central State Hos-
pital, with such additional interrogatories relating to epilepsy as may
be deemed necessary for statistical purposes; but the official forms
for commitment of the insane and of the inebriate shall be furnished
by the commissioner of State hospitals to the clerk of the circuit court
of each county and the corporation court of each city and the said
clerks shall have printed in accordance with said form all necessary
blanks required in such commitment at the expense of the respective
counties and cities. :

2. An emergency existing in the early need of the care of persons
affected by the provision thereof this act shall be in force from its
passage.