2094. ARTICLE 59.

Commissioners or the Supervisors of City Charities, as the case may be,
shall have power to institute and prosecute all proper proceedings to subject
the same thereto, and all payments made as a result of such proceedings
shall be accounted for and paid as hereinbefore provided.

Upon the death of any person committed to any of the said institutions
as aforesaid, the County Commissioners or the Supervisors of City Chari-
ties, as the case may be, shall be entitled to make claim against the estate
of any such person for his or her maintenance and support while in such
institution, or for the balance due therefor if part has been paid. Such
claim shall constitute a preferred claim against the estate of any such
person, and all claims arising hereunder against the relatives and other
persons legally chargeable with the maintenance and support of such
inmates, shall constitute preferred claims. All such claims may be waived
by the County Commissioners or Supervisors of City Charities, as the
case may be, in their discretion, if in their judgment the enforcement of
the same will result in hardship to others dependent upon those against
whom such claims exist. All payments received as a result of the enforce-
ment of such claims shall be accounted for and paid as hereinbefore
provided.

An. Code, sec. 3B. 1916, ch. 566, sec. 3B.

5. The County Commissioners or the Supervisors of City Charities,
as the case may be, shall have full power and authority, in the case of all
persons heretofore committed to any institution under the provisions of the
preceding Sections of this Article and still confined therein, to exercise
all of the powers conferred upon them by Section 4 of this Article with
respect to persons hereafter to be so committed, to the end that payment
for the future maintenance and support of such persons while in such
institutions may be required, made, collected, and accounted for as in the
case of persons hereafter to be committed under the provisions of said
Section 4.

Insanity as a Defense in Criminal Cases.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, see. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1826, ch. 197, sec. 1. 1916, ch. 699.

6. When any person indicted for a crime, offense or misdemeanor
shall allege insanity or lunacy in his or her defense, the jury impaneled
to try such person shall find by their verdict whether such person was at
the time of the commission of the alleged offense or still is insane, lunatic
or otherwise. The judge of the court in which such indictment is pending
shall have full power and authority at any time before trial to order an
examination of the mental condition of such person by the Board of Mental
Hygiene, which examination shall be made in the same manner and under
the same conditions as examinations of convicts are now required to be
made by the said Board of Mental Hygiene when summoned to do so by
the Board of Welfare, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 715 of the