Anno quarto & quinto Victoriae Reginae. Cap. LX. An Act to alter and amend certain Acts regulating madhouses in Scotland; and to provide for the custody of dangerous lunatics.

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Date:
1841]
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Credit: Anno quarto & quinto Victoriae Reginae. Cap. LX. An Act to alter and amend certain Acts regulating madhouses in Scotland; and to provide for the custody of dangerous lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or Lunatic committed upon such Application : Provided always, that such Expence of keeping and Maintenance, together with the Licence Duty, shall he defrayed by such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic, if he or she has the Means of defraying the same ; or if such Expence cannot, in the Opinion of the Sheriff, be immediately recovered from such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic, or out of his or her Estate, then the same shall be defrayed by the Parish which would be liable for the Mainten¬ ance of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic if he or she were a Pauper; and it shall be competent to the Sheriff, at the Time of granting Warrant of Commitment to such licensed Madhouse or public Hospital or public Asylum, if such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic shall not be known to be in the Possession of any adequate Means or Estate, also to pro¬ nounce Judgment in favour of the Procurator Fiscal for such Sum as may be necessary for the Maintenance of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic in such licensed Madhouse or public Hospital or public Asylum, against the Parish which in the Opinion of the Sheriff would be liable, either ad interim, or permanently or ultimately, or with Relief for the Mainten¬ ance of such Person ; which J udgment shall be final and con¬ clusive, and not subject to Review, by Suspension, Advocation, or Reduction, or otherwise; but reserving always to the Parish paying such Sum and Expences its Recourse against all others liable therefor, as accords of Law : Provided also, that the Procurator Fiscal shall repay to the Clerk of Supply, out of the Monies so to be recovered, the Sums which such Clerk of Supply shall have advanced for the keeping and maintaining of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic, as herein-before provided. Lunatic VI. And be it enacted, That if the Procurator Fiscal of any may be re- County shall make Application to the Sheriff for the Removal Application °f. any furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic from any licensed by Procur- Madhouse, accompanied by a Certificate of Two Medical Men, ator Fiscal, qualified as aforesaid, to the Effect that such licensed Madhouse is unfit or unsuitable for the Confinement of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic, it shall be lawful for the Sheriff thereupon to grant Warrant for the Removal of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic from such licensed Madhouse to some other licensed Madhouse or public Hospital or Asylum, either in his own or in some adjoining County: Provided always, that Intimation of the Intended Application shall be given (to be proved to the Satisfaction of the Sheriff) to the Party at whose Instance such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic was confined ; and the Expences attending such Application for Removal, and of the Keeping and Maintenance of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic in the public Hospital or Asylum or licensed Madhouse to which he or she shall be so removed, shall