962 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59.

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.

1886, ch. 487, sec. 26.

25. Any officer or other person in charge of the insane, who
may refuse to comply with any of the provisions of sections 21,
24:, 26, 31, 32, 33 and 38 of this article, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction of same, shall be fined or im-
prisoned, in the judgment of the court before which the case may

be tried.

Ibid. sec. 27.

26. The superintendent or other officer or keeper of any in-
stitution, 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 commission.

Ibid. 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 for compensation or hire without first obtaining a
license therefor from said lunacy commission. This section shall
not apply to any State or incorporated institution or almshouse
in any of the counties, except when a county almshouse shall
receive insane persons from other counties for pay.

Ibid, sec 29.

28. Every application for such license made to the said com-
mission shall be accompanied by a plan of the premises proposed
to be so occupied, number of patients, male and female, location,
and whatever other details the commission may think proper to
require in order to form an opinion as to the propriety of issuing
such license; said commission are authorized to grant or refuse
such license in their judgment; if such license be refused to an
applicant, then and ir that case said applicant may appeal from
the decision of the commission to the superior court of the city