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charge of such necessary repairs and improvements as in their
judgment may be required. They shall report at the Janu-
ary and June meetings their proceedings, together with the
condition of the accounts at the Hospital.

This Committee, or a majority thereof, may call a meeting
of the Board whenever it shall be deemed important to
do so.

VII. MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT.

The Medical Superintendent shall be appointed by the
Board to serve during its pleasure.

It shall be his duty to reside within the premises of the
Institution—to devote his whole time and talents to those
who may be under his care—not to leave the Institution for
more than a day without the approbation of the Executive
Committee—to visit the halls of the patients as often as he
may deem requisite, provided they are visited by him or the
Assistant Physician not less than once daily—to exercise the
full authority of a medical chief over the patients and their
attendants—to introduce, with the concurrence of the Presi-
dent, such rules and regulations for their guidance as he may
think proper—to receive all moneys due to the Institution,
and to give an account of the same, and of all disbursements
made by him to the President, and to any authorized Com-
mittee with proper vouchers for all sums expended by him—
to select attendants, male and female, and to discharge them
when incompetent—to see that proper food, clothing, warmth,
ventilation, &c. are bestowed upon every class of patients,
and that, they receive a proper degree of exercise, and such
moral management as he may find means and opportunity to
bestow—to call upon the President whenever he may deem a
consultation necessary or proper—to apply to him or to the
Executive Committee for the means to accomplish his plans—
and to exercise immediate control over the Steward, Supervi-
sors, and the attendants generally, whose duty it shall be to
report to him and endeavor to carry out his orders.

It shall be his duty to keep a book of admissions, register-
ing the name, residence, age, guarantor, date of admission
and discharge, the price of board, and the character of the
insanity of each patient; also to keep a general register of the
patients, to show upon it the results of treatment, and to give
to the Board an abstract thereof at its January meeting.

It shall be his duty to obtain all necessary information con-
cerning the patients.

It shall be his duty, with the co-operation of the President,
to fix the price of board in cases not regulated by law. Ex-
cepting those patients that are sent by authority of the courts,
in every case it shall be his duty to require the certificate of a
respectable attending physician that the patient is insane, and
ought to be placed in a Hospital for the Insane, and to re-