1480 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

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 alms-
houses, 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. 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 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. 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 commission.

Ibid. 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 per-
sons 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 insti-
tution or almshouse in any of the counties, except when a
county almshouse shall receive insane persons from other
counties for pay.

Ibid sec 28 1886, ch. 487, sec. 29.

28. Every application for such license made to the said
commission 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 in that
case said applicant may appeal from the decision of the com-