Chap. 208.—An ACT to incerporate The Pinel Hospital.
Approved March 27, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
James B. McCaw, J.S. Wellford, M. A. Moncure, J. A. White,
C. W. P. Brock, A. Y. Stokes, J..R. Anderson, J. J. A. Mon-
cure, F. D, Cunningham, James D. Moncure, and their asso-
ciates and successors, are hereby made a corporation, by the
name and style of The Pinel Hospital, or such other designa-
tion as may be selected by the corporation or board of mana-
gers provided tor in this act, with power to sue and be sued;
plead and be impleaded; contract and be contracted with; to
receive by gift, grant, devise, or otherwise, property, real,
personal, and mixed, and the same to hold, use, lease, convey,
mortgage, and otherwise dispose of for the purposes herein-
after mentioned; to adopt and use a corporate seal, and alter
the same at pleasure; also to erect and maintain such build-
ings and other fixtures and conveniences as may be deemed
necessary for the purposes of this corporation.
2. Said corporation or board of managers shall continue to
hold office until their successors are appointed at the first
annual meeting of the association, hereinafter provided for
in section eleven.

3. The object of this incorporation shall be the founding
and maintenance, by voluntary contribution or otherwise, of
a hospital for the care and treatment of the insane, and for
the reclamation of inebriates and opium eaters.

4. Said corporation may, from time to time, adopt such by-
laws, and at pleasure abolish, alter, or amend the same, for
the management of its business, the conduct and government
of said hospital and the inmates thereof, not inconsistent
with the constitution and general laws of this state, as to
them shall seem meet and proper.

5. Said corporation shall charge such fees for the care and
maintenance of the inmates of said hospital as may be agreed
upon between the officer in charge of said hospital and the
legal representatives of inmates.

6. Such insane shall be admitted on the terms now required
by law for their admission into the public asylums of the
state. But the cost to the state not to exceed in the class of
cases mentioned in the thirteenth section, the terms therein
prescribed.

7. Upon complaint on oath, in writing, by any two of the
relatives or friends ot the party to any justice of the peace
(they having first agreed and entered into bond, with ap-
proved security, to pay all costs incurred by the investigation
and future proceedings), that any person is an habitual drunk-
ard or opium eater, and lost to self-control, and unfit to at-
tend to any business, and that there is good reason to believe
that said inebriate or opium eater would be benefitted by
treatment in the said hospital, it shall be the duty of said
justice to issue his warrant, ordering such person to be
brought before him. He and two other justices shall enquire
whether such person be an habitual drunkard or opium eater,
and lost to self-control; and for that purpose shall summon
his physician (if he have one), and if none, then some other
physician practicing in the vicinity and other friends. If,
after said examination, which shall be in writing, it shall ap-
pear that the person so examined is an habitual drunkard or
Opium eater, and lost to self-control, and that, in the opinion
of said justices, the benefits of the Pinel hospital would pos-
sibly restore him to sobriety and self-control, then such jus-
tices, after said examination, shall, in their discretion, have
power to assign the said inebriate or opium eater to the care
and protection of the Pinel hospital, there to remain under
treatment until, in the opinion of the constituted officers of
the Pinel hospital, it will be safe to allow him to go at large.
But no such inebriate or opium-eater, shall be compelled, by
the provisions of this act, to remain in the said hospital for
a period exceeding twelve months, without his consent, en-
tered in writing, on the records of the hospital: provided,
that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prevent
any person, who shall feel himselt aggrieved by the judg-
ment of the justices aforesaid, from appealing to county or
corparation courts of the county in which he mf@y reside, and
the said appeal shall be allowed as a matter of right, and the
said courts shall proceed, without delay, and without any
formal pleadings, to review the said proceedings, and the
party accused shall have the right of trial by jury to ascer-
tain the fact whether or not he is an habitual drunkard or
Opium-eater, and lost to self-control. If the jury aforesaid
shall, by their verdict, decide that the accused is not an
habitual drunkard, and lost to self-control, the said court
shall enter an order dismissing the whole proceedings, and
shall give judgment against the parties making complaint
for costs: and provided further, that nothing in this act shall
be construed to impair the right of habeas corpus.

8. That the Pinel hospital shall have power to receive and
retain all-inebriates, opium-eaters and insane, who may enter
it as patients, either voluntary or by committal of the afore-
said justices.

9. The justices committing an inebriate or opium. -eater, a3
before described in this act, shall, at the time of such com-
mitment, certify to the county court of their county, the fact
of such committal, and the said court shall have power to ap-
point a committee to take charge of the said inebriate or
opium-eater, and his estate, both real and personal. ‘Said com-
mittee shall execute bond with such security, as the court may
require, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties;
and he shall report to said court the time and circumstances
of the release of such inebriate from the hospital to which he
may have been sent, and upon such report, if satisfactory,
the said committee may be released from any further respon-
sibility.

10. The said. Pinel hospital shall be entitled to purchase
and hold such real and personal property as may be neces-
sary for their purposes, or they may acquire property by
gifts, or in anyeother manner, for the same purpose, not pro-
hibited by law. The buildings and patients of all kinds of
the said Pinel hospital, shali be subject and liable to the in-
spection of the legal authorities, as is now provided by law
for the various insane asylums of this commonwealth.

11. Each corporator, his successors or associates, who shall
pay into the treasury the sum of ten dollars, shall be consi-
dered a stockholder, and shall be entitled to vote for all offi-
cers, one vote being allowed for each ten dollars subscribed
by. him per annum.

12. The board of corporators, under this act, shall meet at
the call of any three members thereof in the city of Rich-
mond, within thirty days after the passage of said act of in-
corporation, and shall proceed to organize the association,
and fix a day for its annual meeting.

13. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as imposing a charge upon the treasury of the state,

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