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of the county or city respectively where such court may sit, to
arrest and bring the person so charged before such court, and it
shall be the duty of the sheriff to obey such warrant; and such
court shall cause a jury of good and lawful men to be summoned
by the said sheriff to be empanelled forthwith, and shall charge
said jury under oath to inquire, in the presence of such person,
whether he or she is a habitual drunkard, incapable of taking
care of himself or herself, and the proceedings in such case shall
be like those now authorized by law in cases of persons alleged
to be lunatic or insane; and the rule of law and proceedings now
applicable to the property of lunatics, shall apply to cases of
persons declared to be habitual drunkards under the provisions
of this article, except when herein otherwise directed; and all
persons who may be alleged to be habitual drunkards, may dis-
pense with the legal proceedings to establish the same, and may
with the approbation of the court, when said petition may be
filed, appoint his or her own committee, and may voluntarily
enter said Asylum for a limited time, and the board of trustees
of said Asylum may retain such person the length of time he or
she may have agreed therein to remain; and if the person against
whom the petition may be filed shall be found by the jury to be
a habitual drunkard, incapable of taking care of himself or her-
self, it shall be the duty of the court to appoint a committee of
such person, and such committee shall, with the written assent
and approbation of the court, have the power of confining such
person in the said Asylum for such length of time as the court
may in writing approve; but said committee, with the written
assent and approbation of the court, may at any time release
from confinement said habitual drunkard; and the period of con-
finement of said habitual drunkard may by the said committee,
with the written assent and approbation of the court,'be from
time to time extended for such periods as may be necessary for
his or her complete reformation.

7*. The board of trustees of said Asylum shall make an annual
report to the Governor of the State on the third Wednesday of
January in each year, in detail, of their proceedings, income,
expenditures, the number of patients admitted, discharged and
remaining in said Asylum, verified by the affidavit of the presi-
dent and treasurer; which report shall be filed in the office of the
Secretary of State.