1424 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

State; the commission shall be empowered to present the offenders
before the grand jury of the city or county in which such offense may
have occurred.

1904, art. 59, sec. 23. 1888, art. 59, sec. 23. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 24.
1910, ch. 715, sec. 23 (p. 188).

23. The commission shall annually report to the governor in the
month of December its acts and proceedings; also a report of all the
different institutions, public and private, and whether corporate or
under individual management or control, including almshouses and
county asylums where the insane or feeble-minded are kept. The
report shall include a concise review of the work of the several institu-
tions under the supervision of the commission for the year preceding,
and such suggestions and recommendations as to said institutions and
as to the general interests of all persons under its supervision as it con-
siders expedient, and information embodying the experience of this
country and other countries relative to the best and most successful
methods of caring for such persons as come under the supervision of
the commission.

Ibid. sec. 24. 1888, art. 59, sec. 24. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 25.

24. They shall be authorized to require a written report from all
institutions, public, corporate and private, including almshouses, in
which the insane or idiotic may be kept; said report to be in such form
and at such time as they may adopt and to contain such statement of
facts concerning the treatment of the insane, as they may require.

Ibid. sec. 25. 1888, art. 59, sec. 25. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 26.
1910, ch. 715, sec. 25 (p. 189).

25. Any officer or other person in charge of the insane or feeble-
minded who may refuse to comply with any of the provisions of sections
21, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 38 and 40 shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and, on conviction of same, shall be fined or imprisoned, in the
judgment of the court before which the case may be tried.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1888, art. 59, sec. 26. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 27.

26. The superintendent or other officer or keeper of any institution,
public, corporate or private, or almshouse where the insane may be
kept shall be required to keep a report of all patients, in such form as
the commission shall direct; also a record in which shall be entered
the incidents and accidents that may occur, also the number and kind
of restraints used, with details of the same, to be reported to the com-
mission.

Ibid. sec. 27. 1888, art. 59, sec. 27. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 28.

27. No person or association of persons shall establish or keep an
asylum or retreat or private place or home for the care or custody of
the insane or treatment of such cases or of persons of unsound mind