Volume 6
Private Law 26–IV
making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia.
Approved February 2, 1841
Statutory text
An Act
making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the marshal for the District of Columbia be, and he is hereby, authorized to send to the lunatic asylum, in Baltimore, all such lunatic persons, who are paupers, as are now confined in the jails of Washington and Alexandria counties, and all such as may hereafter be committed as lunatics, by order of the circuit or criminal courts, they being paupers of the said District of Columbia, and their support being legally chargeable thereto; and that he pay the expenses of their removal, and of their maintenance in said asylum, and be allowed for the same in the settlement of his accounts
Proviso.
at the Treasury of the United States: Provided, Said expenses shall not exceed, in the whole, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force until the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and no longer.
Approved, .