LUNATICS AND INSANE. 2103

there is reason to believe that any person is wrongfully deprived of his or
her liberty, or had been cruelly, improperly or negligently treated in any
place or institution or almshouse; but in all cases in which said Board
shall take action or determine any question affecting any insane person
or persons supposed to be insane, or any institution in which such insane
or supposed insane person is confined, the managers of said institution
shall have the same right to appeal from said action or determination of
said Board as is now allowed by law in cases instituted before justices of
the peace of the State; the Board shall be empowered to present the offen-
ders before the grand jury of the city or county in which such offense may
have occurred.

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

24. The Board 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 indi-
vidual 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 institutions under the supervi-
sion of the Board for the year preceding, and such suggestions and recom-
mendations as to said institutions and as to the general interests of all
persons under its supervision as it considers 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 Board.

An. Code, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 24. 1888, sec. 24. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 25.

25. They shall be authorized to require a written report from all insti-
tutions, 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 concern-
ing the treatment of the insane, as they may require.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1904, sec. 25. 1888, sec. 25. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 26.
1910, ch. 715, sec. 25 (p. 189).

26. 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
22, 25, 27, 32, 33, 34, 39 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.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1904, sec. 26. 1888, sec. 26. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 27.

27. 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
Board 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 Board.