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to give him or her proper care, but no subsequent extension of
such leave of absence or parole shall be made, nor shall any
patient be again admitted or received into or detained in any
institution who has been absent therefrom for more than sixty
days, or for more than thirty days in case the parole has not
been extended as above provided, except under a new commit-
ment, according to, law, except in accordance with the provi-
sion made for the reception of voluntary cases. Any such pa-
tient may be returned by his friends or brought back by the
duly designated officers of the institution from which he has
been paroled at or before the expiration of the period of parole,
as provided for the return of patients who have escaped from
institutions, asylums, hospitals, homes or retreats for the in
sane within this State.

38D. The superintendent or chief medical officer of every in-
stitution, hospital, asylum, home or retreat for the insane to
which persons may be admitted in accordance with this Act
shall discharge any patient, except one under criminal charge,
upon being satisfied by personal examination and inquiry that
said patient has recovered. He may also discharge any patient
who appears quiet and harmless and who is not likely to im-
prove under further treatment, upon being satisfied that such
patient's relatives or friends are able to give him proper care
and supervision. He shall not discharge any patient now or
hereafter detained in any institution, asylum, home or retreat
whom he has reason to believe to be dangerous to himself or
others, except upon the order of some court of competent juris-
diction. Nothing in this section shall prevent the relatives or
friends of any patient maintained by them at private expense
in any institution, hospital, asylum, home or retreat for the in-
sane in this State, removing such patient at any time, but in
the event of the removal of any patient so maintained who is
believed by the superintendent or chief medical officer of any
institution from which such removal is made, to be dangerous
to himself or others, it shall be the duty of the superintendent
or chief medical officer to give notice in writing to the relatives
or friends making such removal that, in his belief, the said
patient is dangerous, and his reason for such belief, and to
cause a copy of said notice to be filed with the papers upon
which said patient was committed.

38E. The Lunacy Commission shall have the power to ap-
point a board of visitors for each county asylum and alms-
house where the insane are confined. Said board of visitors
shall consist of five persons in good repute, two members of
whom shall be women. Any member of the board of visitors
shall have power to visit and inspect every part of the institu-
tion under their supervision. The board shall send a /written