SECTION 7. The court to which such application may be t order may made, shall proceed in a summary way to hear the proofs and rt how to ceed, and te. er in which tives shall port poor Jons. > or more tives may rdered to port poor on, &c. er what to allegations of the parties, and shall order such of the relatives SECTION 8. The said court shall also, in such order, direct the cify; may be ed. SECTION 9. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court, that any such relative is unable wholly to maintain such poor person, but is able to contribute toward his support, the said court may, in its discretion, direct two or more such relatives to maintain such poor person, and shall prescribe the proportion which each shall contribute for that purpose; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said court that the relatives liable as aforesaid, are not of sufficient ability wholly to maintain such poor person, but are able to contribute something therefor, then the said court shall direct the sum, in proportion to their ability, which such relatives shall severally pay weekly for that purpose. SECTION 10. Such order may specify the time during which the relatives aforesaid shall maintain such poor person, or during which any of the said sums so directed by the court shall be paid, or it may be indefinite, or until the further order of the court; and the said court may from time to time vary such order, whenever circumstances shall require it, on the application of any relative affected thereby, or of any supervisor of the town in which such poor person may be, upon fourteen days' notice being given in the manner aforesaid. ts of pro- ts may be intained Supervisors neglect to ply with er. SECTION 11. The costs and expenses of such application shall be ascertained by the court and paid by the relatives against whom any order may be made; and the payment thereof, and obedience to the order of maintenance, and to any order for the payment of money, may be enforced by process of attachment. SECTION 12. If any relative who shall have been required by inst relatives such order to relieve or maintain any poor person, shall neglect to do so in such manner as shall be approved by the supervisors of the town where such poor person may be, and shall neglect to pay to the said supervisors, weekly, the sum prescribed by the court for the support of such poor person, the said supervisors may maintain an action against such relative, as for moneys paid, laid out, and expended, and shall recover therein the sum so prescribed by the said court, for every week the said order shall have been disobeyed, up to the time of such recovery, with costs of suit, for the use of the poor. sconding faer, mother, or sband, how SECTION 13. Whenever the father, or mother, being a widow or living separate from her husband, shall abscond or be about to nd from his or ach father, m move from the ant to seize the the person s NCTION 15. A ty court for th e filed. lied toward th son so abscondi SECTION 17. perty so ordere real estate of me to the main person so absc nder such accou e proceedings a seized. ch. Upon due proof of the facts as aforesaid, the How warrant their warrant, authorizing the said supervisors and their goods, may be issued, the goods, chattels, effects, things in action, and lands, &c., ments of the person so absconding; and the tue of such warrant, may seize and take the gs in action, and effects, wherever the same may me county; and they shall be vested with all the the said property, things in action, and effects, so absconding had at the time of his or her warrant issued, All sales and transfers of any personal property Sales of personal from which such person absconded, made by him property after suing of such warrants, whether in payment of void. ot or for a new consideration, shall be absolutely supervisors shall immediately make an invenSupervisors to erty, things in action, and effects, so seized by make inventory the same, with the proceedings, to the next and return same with proceedhe county in which such supervisors reside, there ings. The said county court, upon inquiring into the County court how to proceed stances of the case, may confirm the said warrant upon return of may discharge the same; and if the same is con- warrant, &c. t shall, from time to time, direct what part of the y shall be sold and how much of the proceeds of the rents and profits of the real estate, shall be the maintenance of the wife or children of the ding. sors in selling same. The supervisors shall sell, at public vendue, the Duty of supervired to be sold, and receive the rents and profits of and applying of the person so absconding, and shall apply the property. intenance and support of the wife or children of sconded, and they shall account to the said county To account for neys so received by them, and for the application me to time, and may be compelled by said court to ount at any time. - If the person so absconding shall return, and When property e or children so abandoned, or give security to the he town, to be approved by two justices of the peace ing. that the wife or children so abandoned shall not eafter be chargeable to the town, then such warrant rged by an order of such justices, and the property e thereof and remaining unappropriated, or the I proceeds thereof, after deducting the expenses of s as aforesaid, shall be restored to the party. to be restored to person abscond n supervi bind ures how uted, &c. SECTION 19. When any minor shall become or be likely to mayin. become chargeable to any town, either because of being an orphan, or because the parents or other relations are unable or refuse to support such minor, it shall be the duty of the supervisors of such town to bind such minor as an apprentice to some respectable householder of the county in which such town is situate, by written indenture, which shall bind such minor to serve as an apprentice, and shall be executed in like manner, and shall be of the same tenor and effect, as indentures executed pursuant to the provisions of the chapter entitled "of masters and apprentices;" and every minor so bound, and the supervisors binding him, and his master, shall be subject to all the provisions of said chapter. ef to poor ons not hav SECTION 20. When any non-resident stranger, or any other settlement, person, shall be taken sick, lame, or become otherwise disabled, granted, &c. in any town in this state, having no legal settlement therein, and not having money or property to pay his board, attendance, and medical aid, it shall be the duty of the supervisors of such town, on complaint being made, to give or order to be given such assistance to such poor person, as they may deem just and necessary; and if said poor person shall die, the said supervisors shall give or cause to be given to such person, a decent burial; and the said supervisors shall make such allowance for board, nursing, medical aid, or burial expenses, as they shall deem just and equitable, and order the same to be paid out of the town treasury. port of poor a settlement, e a charge nst the SECTION 21. If any such poor person shall not have a legal ons not hav- settlement in said town, the expenses incurred by the town for his relief or maintenance shall be a charge against the county in which such town is situated, and shall be audited by the county board of supervisors, and paid out of the county treasury; unless the town in which such poor person has a legal settlement shall pay the expenses for his relief and maintenance. ty. ount for such port to be fied by avit, &c. loving or pauper eanor. SECTION 22. Every account for the relief or maintenance of SECTION 23. Any person who shall send, convey, transport, cing power remove, or bring, or who shall cause or procure to be sent, carried, ther, a mis- transported, removed, or brought, any pauper, from any town into any other town, knowing him to be a pauper, without legal authority, and there leave such pauper, or who shall entice such pauper so to remove, with intent to make any such town, to which the removal shall be made, chargeable with the support of such pauper, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court. wn in which a per has a setnent liable to SECTION 24. If any person shall become a charge to any town for his support, and shall have no legal settlement therein, the ervisors of the Cement, shall be ECTION 25. I when any pa Town, or any not having a red and provi may be; and visors, or any per was remov red in giving mere such poor ving such not ions contained same of such enced within th no action sha SECTION 28. be brought or ace without this ach town charge feit and pay fi peace of the Thom such perso or may be incurr County jail for a own in which such person may have a legal town supporting liable for the support of such poor person. him. lieved in the liable. all cases mentioned in the two preceding sec- Pauper to be reper shall be brought, removed, or enticed into town where he erson shall have become chargeable in such may be, but supervisors to give egal settlement therein, such persons shall be notice to town ed for by the supervisors of the town where the said supervisors may give notice to the one of them, of the town from which any such d, brought, or enticed, or of the town in which ho shall have become chargeable, has a legal g such supervisors thereof, and requiring them harge of such person. whom notice The supervisors to whom such notice may be Duty of supervisin thirty days after the service thereof, take or of town to oor person to their town, and pay the expenses given. such notice, and in maintaining such poor perof his becoming a charge to the town in which neglect to re f the said supervisors shall omit to take and re- Liability of superson, and pay such expenses, within the said pervisors if they nd their successors in office shall be liable for move pauper, f maintaining such poor person, so long as he &c. blic charge; and the supervisors of the town person may bé, may from time to time sue for deny the allega brought, &c. me, with costs: provided, that if the supervisors If supervisors ice, shall, within said thirty days, deny the alle- tion of the notice, in such notice, and notify the supervisors giving &c., suit to be denial, an action for such expenses shall be comee months after such denial, or be forever barred, ll thereafter be brought for such expenses. Any person who shall bring or remove, or cause Penalty for removed, any poor or indigent person, from any into this state. -state, into any town within it, with intent to make able with the support of such poor person, shall fty dollars, to be recovered before any justice of town into which such poor person shall be brought, offender may be; and shall also be obliged to conerson out of the state, or support him at his own bringing pauper from person of of state, &c. It shall be lawful for the justice or court before Court may reon shall be convicted for a violation of the provis-quire security ding section, to require of such person satisfactory fending to transwill, within a reasonable time to be named by the port pauper out transport such poor person out of the state, or inwn for all charges and expenses which have been red in the support of such poor person; and if such lect or refuse to give such security when required, uty of the justice or court to commit him to the term not exceeding three months. The supervisors of the several towns shall present Supervisors to re to town tures for at each annual town meeting therein, a report showing the amount ng the ex- of money expended by them for the relief and support of poor perort of poor, sons in such town during the then preceding year, the name of each poor person or family relieved, and the amount appropriated for the support of each, together with all such other items of expenditure incurred agreeably to the provisions of this chapter; they shall also in said report present an estimate of such sum as in their opinion will be required for the support of the poor in such town for the then ensuing year. als from de SECTION 31. Every decision of any justice of the peace, in any as of justices matter, proceeding, or action, authorized by this chapter, may be under this appealed from in like manner, and under like regulations, as in er allowed. other cases. proceed nses of in t insane Chapter 71, Acts of general nature of 1858. SECTION 1. The county board of supervisors of each county ns to be de- in this state, is hereby authorized and required to audit the by coun- accounts hereafter incurred for the relief or maintenance of all indigent insane persons within their respective counties as hereinafter provided. ty judge satisfactory afine such e person. Such SECTION 2. Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of ace to issue any county judge, by the petition of a majority of the board of to sheriff supervisors of any town, or a majority of the common council or board of aldermen of any city, within his county, that the public safety requires the close custody of any insane person or lunatic, having a legal settlement in the town or city represented by the petition, it shall be the duty of the said judge to make and deliver to the sheriff of the proper county an order in writing, requiring the sheriff to forthwith take and confine such insane person or lunatic in some proper place, as he may order and direct. petition shall contain a statement of all the facts in the case, so that the judge may determine from the evidence before him whether it is safe to allow such insane person or lunatic person to be at large. Such insane person or lunatic, when thus confined by the order of the judge, shall be subject to the direction of the said judge, and shall receive such care, attention, and treatment as the judge may deem proper and necessary. All expenses incurred in confining, taking care of, or attending upon such person, shall be audited by the county board of supervisors, when properly certified to them by the judge having the care and direction of such person, and when so audited shall be paid out of the county treasury. ct to direcof judge. penses to id by cy. Approved May 1st, 1858. |