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whether corporate or under individual management or con-
trol, including almshouses and county asylums where the in-
sane or feeble-minded are kept. The report shall include a
concise review of the work of the several institutions 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 super-
vision 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 per-
sons as come under the supervision of the Commission.

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

37. The medical superintendent or chief officer of any in-
stitution, hospital, home or retreat for the insane, except alms-
houses, may receive and detain therein for purposes of care and
treatment at the expense of such persons, or the expense of
the relative or friends, any one who is desirous of submitting
himself for treatment and makes application therefor in writ-
ing. No such person shall be detained for more than three
clays after having given notice of his or her desire and inten-
tion to leave such institution, unless such person shall in the
meantime have been legally committed upon and after due no-
tice to him or her on the request of his or her relatives or
friends, in accordance with Section 31 of this Act regulating
the commitment and detention of the insane in hospitals and
asylums; nor shall any person be received or detained as a
voluntary patient whose mental condition is such, or becomes
such, that such person cannot comprehend the act of voluntary
commitment, or be able to request his or her discharge, or give
continuous assent to detention. Every such voluntary patient
so admitted shall be reported to the Lunacy Commission, as
provided in cases legally committed, and shall be further re-
ported to the Lunacy Commission, with a statement of the
mental condition of said person at the end of each three months
of said patient's residence in the institution to which he or
she has requested admission, and when discharged therefrom a
copy of this section shall be read or exhibited to every person
requesting admission to any institution, in accordance with its
provisions.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That seven additional
sections be and the same are hereby added to said Article 59