Chap. 470.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1028 of the Code of
Virginia. t> B 266)
Approved March 27, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one thousand and twenty-eight of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1028. Examination of persons adjudged insane, epileptic,
feeble-minded or inebriate——When a person who has been adjudged
insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate is admitted to a hospital!
or colony, he shall be detained until the superintendent and his
assistants shall have ample opportunity to observe and examine him.
and if upon such examination such superintendent is of the opinion
that said person is not insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate,
then such person, unless he be charged with or convicteu ot crime,
shall be returned by said hospital authorities to the county or city
from whence said person was committed, with a certificate of dis-
charge, and a copy of said certificate shall be forwarded by said
superintendent to the clerk of the circuit court of said county or
clerk of the corporation court of said city, to be filed with the
commitment papers of said persons, but if the said superintendent
and his assistants, after taking ample time to observe and examine
him, and if upon such examination the said superintendent be of the
opinion that he is insane, epileptic, feeble-minded or inebriate then
it shall be the duty of such superintendent to forthwith report in
writing to the physicians who examined such person as members of
the lunacy commission his findings giving a full report of the case,
as well as any suggestion he may think best to enable the said
physician to successfully treat any other similar cases coming under
their observation or to treat the said patient if he should later be
discharged from such hospital.