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the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent shall be a well-edu-
cated physician, possessing competent experience in the care and treat-
ment of the insane; he shall reside on the premises and devote his whole
time to the welfare of the institution; he shall, subject to the approval
of the visitors, engage and discharge all needful and usual employés in
the care of the insane, and all laborers on the farm, and determine their
wages and duties; he shall be the responsible disbursing agent of the
institution, and shall be ex-officio secretary of the board of visitors.
SEC. 4813. The superintendent, upon the order of the Secretary of Admission of
insane persons
of
War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secretary of the Treas-
the Army, Navy,
ury, respectively, shall receive, and keep in custody until they are cured, Marine Corps, &c.
or removed by the same authority which ordered their reception, insane
persons of the following descriptions:

First. Insane persons belonging to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
and revenue-cutter service.

Second. Civilians employed in the Quartermaster's and Subsistence Departments of the Ariny who may be, or may hereafter become, insane while in such employment.

Third. Men who, while in the service of the United States, in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, have been admitted to the hospital, and have been thereafter discharged from it on the supposition that they have recovered their reason, and have, within three years after such discharge, become again insane from causes existing at the time of such discharge, and have no adequate means of support.

Fourth. Indigent insane persons who have been in either of the said services and been discharged therefrom on account of disability arising from such insanity.

Fifth. Indigent insane persons who have become insane within three years after their discharge from such service, from causes which arose during and were produced by said service.

sane of the Dis

SEC. 4844. All indigent insane persons residing in the District of Admission of Columbia at the time they became insane shall be entitled to the bene- the indigent infits of the Hospital for the Insane and shall be admitted on the author- trict of Columbia. ity of the Secretary of the Interior, which he may grant after due process of law showing the person to be insane and unable to support himself and family, or himself, if he has no family, under the visitation of insanity.

Order of admis

SEC. 4845. The Secretary of the Interior may grant an order for the
admission into the hospital of any insane person not charged with a sion.
breach of the peace, when he shall receive the certificate, as provided
in the next section, of any judge of the supreme court for the District
of Columbia, or of any justice of the peace of the District, and an ap-
plication in writing, as provided in the next section, by a member of the
board of visitors, requesting that such order may be issued.

Certificate of

SEC. 4846. It must appear by the certificate aforesaid that two respectable physicians, residents of the District, appeared before said judge or judge or justice. justice and deposed, in writing sworn to and subscribed by them, that they knew the person alleged to be insane; that, from personal examination, they believed such person to be in fact insane, and a fit subject for treatment in said hospital, and that said person was a resident of the District at the time he or she was seized with the mental disorder under which he or she then labored. And it must further appear by such certificate that two respectable householders, resident of the District, appeared before said judge or justice and deposed, in writing sworn to and subscribed by them, that they knew the person alleged to be insane, and that, from a personal examination of his or her affairs, they believed said person to be unable, under the visitation of insanity, to support himself, or herself, and family, in case such person have a family, or to support himself or herself alone, in case such person have no family, and unable to pay his or her board and other expenses in the hospital. The affidavits of said physicians and householders shall accompany the certificate of said judge or justice of the peace.

SEC. 4847. The application by a member of the board of visitors must Application by be made within five days after the date of the affidavits aforesaid, and visitor.

it must appear therein that the visitor made the application after an in-
spection of the affidavits and certificate. It shall be the duty of such
visitor to withhold his application, if he has reason to doubt the indi-
gence of the party in whose behalf the application is desired, until his
doubt is removed by satisfactory testimony.

Conveyance to hospital.

Admission of

SEC. 4848. The order of the Secretary of the Interior, granted upon the certificate of a judge or justice and the application of a member of the board of visitors, shall authorize any police officer or constable to assist in carrying such indigent insane person to the hospital, whenever such assistance is represented to be necessary by the person holding the order; but all the expenses of witnesses before the judge or justice of the peace, and of carrying such patient to the hospital, shall be borne by his friends, or by the local authorities of the District.

SEC. 4849. Whenever it appears in the case of any insane person insane persons whose insanity commenced while he was a resident of the District of having property. Columbia that he is able to defray a portion but not the whole of the expenses of his support and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, the board of visitors of the hospital is authorized to inquire into the facts of the case; and if it appears to the board, upon such inquiry, that such insane person has property and no family, or has more property than is required for the support of his family, then, as a condition upon which such insane person, admitted or to be admitted upon the order of the Secretary of the Interior, shall receive or continue to receive the benefits of the hospital, there shall be paid to the superintendent from the income, property, or estate of such insane person such portion of his expenses in the hospital as a majority of the board shall determine to be just and reasonable, under all the circumstances. Admission of SEC. 4850. Any indigent insane person who did not reside in the non-residents of District at the time he became insane may, in like manner, upon the certificate of a judge or justice and the application of a member of the board of visitors, be admitted into the hospital upon the application of the governor of the District, and at the expense of the District during the continuance of such insane person therein, it being hereby designed to give the superintendent thereof authority to take charge of such insane person until the governor can discover who his friends are, or whence he came, with a view to the return of such person to such friends, or to the place of his residence, and thus relieve the District of the expense and charge of such indigent insane non-resident.

District.

Admission of

accused of crime.

SEC. 4851. If any person charged with crime be found, in the court insane persons before which he is so charged, to be an insane person, such court shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior, who may order such person to be confined in the Hospital for the Insane, and if he be not indigent, he and his estate shall be charged with expenses of his support in the hospital.

Insane convicts.

Private pa

tients.

SEC. 4852. Any person becoming insane during the continuance of his sentence in the United States penitentiary shall have the same privilege of treatment in the hospital during the continuance of his mental disorder as is granted in the preceding section to persons who escape the consequences of criminal acts by reason of insanity, unless it be the opinion, both of the physician to the penitentiary and the superintendent of the hospital, that such insane convict is so depraved and furious in his character as to render his custody in the hospital insecure, and his example pernicious.

SEC. 4853. Whenever there are vacancies, private patients from the District may be received at a rate of board to be determined by the visitors, to be in no case less than the actual cost of their support. Admission of SEC. 4854. The independent or pay patients may be received into the pay patients. hospital for the insane on the certificate of two respectable physicians of the District, stating that they have personally examined the patient, and believe him to be insane at the time of giving the certificate, and a fit subject for treatment in the institution, accompanied by a written request for the admission from the nearest relatives, legal guardian, or friend of the patient, where he may remain until restored to reason. The friends of the patient shall comply with the regulations of the hospital in respect to payment of board, and in all other respects. The request for admission must be made within five days of the date of the certificate of insanity.

Delivery of insane criminals restored to sanity.

Discharge of patients upon bond.

SEC. 4855. When any person confined in the Hospital for the Insane charged with crime and subject to be tried therefor, or convicted of crime and undergoing sentence therefor, shall be restored to sanity, the superintendent of the hospital shall give notice thereof to the judge of the criminal court, and deliver him to the court in obedience to the proper precept.

SEC. 4856. If any person will give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, or by any

judge thereof in vacation, payable to the United States, with condition to restrain and take care of any independent or indigent insane person not charged with a breach of the peace, whether in the hospital or not, until the insane person is restored to sanity, such court or judge thereof may deliver such insane person to the party giving such bond. *

Sec.

INSURRECTION-CONSPIRACY.

5297. Insurrection against a State government. 5298. Insurrection against the Government of the United States.

5299. Power to suppress insurrection in violation of civil rights.

5300. Proclamation to insurgents to disperse. 5301. Suspension of commercial intercourse. 5302. In loyal States.

5303 To whom prohibition shall extend.

5304. Commercial intercourse; to what extent

permitted.

5305. Appointment and compensation of officers. 5306. Trading without license, &c.

5307. Investigations to detect frauds.

5308. Confiscation of property employed in aid of insurrection.

5309. Proceedings, where had.

5310. Property taken on inland waters.

Sec.

5311. How proceedings shall be instituted.
5312. Prohibition upon transportation of goods to
aid insurrection.

5313. Prohibition upon trade in captured or aban-
doued property.

5319. Forfeiture of vessels belonging to citizens of insurrectionary States.

5320. Refusal of clearance to vessels laden with suspected merchandise.

5321. Bond upon clearance.

5322. Liens upon condemned vessels.

5406. Conspiring to intimidate witnesses, &c.

5407. Conspiracy to defeat the enforcement of the

laws.

5440. All parties to a conspiracy equally guilty.
5518. Conspiracy to prevent holding office.
5519. Conspiracy to deprive any person of equal
protection of the laws.

SEC. 5297. In case of an iusurrection in any State, against the gov- Title 69. ernment thereof, it shall be lawful for the President, on application of

Insurrection

the legislature of such State, or of the executive, when the legislature against a State cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any government. other State or States, which may be applied for, as he deems sufficient to suppress such insurrection; or, on like application, to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as he deeme necessary.

United States.

SEC. 5298. Whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combina- Insurrection tions, or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of against the Govthe Government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in ernment of the the judgment of the President, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States within any State or Territory, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the militia of any or all the States, and to employ such parts of the land and naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, or to suppress such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory thereof the laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed, or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed.

Power to sup. press ins arrec

SEC. 5299. Whenever insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State so obstructs or hinders the exe- tion in violation cution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any of civil rights. portion or class of the people of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection, named in the Constitution and secured by the laws for the protection of such rights, privileges, or immunities, and the constituted authorities of such State are unable to protect, or, from any cause, fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States; and in all such cases, or whenever any such insurrection, violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, opposes or obstructs the laws of the United States, or the due execution thereof, or impedes or obstructs the due course of justice under the same, it shall be lawful for the President, and it shall be his duty, to take such measures, by the employment of the militia or the land and naval forces of the United States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary, for the suppression of such insurrection, domestic violence, or combinations.

Proclamation

SEC. 5300. Whenever, in the judgment of the President, it becomes necessary to use the military forces under this Title, the President shall to insurgents to forthwith by proclamation, command the insurgents to disperse and disperse. retire peaceably to their respective abodes, within a limited time.

*An act approved March 3, 1875, provides for the admission into the Government Hospital for the Insane, on the order of the Secretary of the Treasury, of insane persons of the merchant marine, at a cost not exceeding four dollars and fifty cents a week, to be paid out of the marine hospital fund.

An act approved June 23, 1874, provides for the custody of persons convicted in the courts of the United States, who have or may become insane while imprisoned.

Suspension of

course.

SEC. 5301. Whenever the President, in pursuance of the provisions of commercialinter- this Title, has called forth the militia to suppress combinations against the laws of the United States, and to cause the laws to be duly executed, and the insurgents shall have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President, and when the insurgents claim to act under the authority of any State or States, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of government in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which such combination exists, and such insurrection is not suppressed by such State or States, or whenever the inhabitants of any State or part thereof are at any time found by the President to be in insurrection against the United States, the President may, by proclamation, declare that the inhabitants of such State, or of any section or part thereof where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the United States; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue; and all goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from such State or section into the other parts of the United States, or proceeding from other parts of the United States to such State or section, by land or water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons to or from such State or section, be forfeited to the United States.

In loyal States;

tend.

SEC. 5302. Whenever any part of a State not declared to be in insurrection is under the control of insurgents, or is in dangerous proximity to places under their control, all commercial intercourse therein and therewith shall be subject to the prohibitions and conditions of the preceding section for such time and to such extent as shall become necessary to protect the public interests, and be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President.

To whom proSEC. 5303. The provisions of this Title in relation to commercial inhibition shall ex- tercourse shall apply to all commercial intercourse by and between persons residing or being within districts within the lines of national military occupation in the States or parts of States declared in insurrection, whether with each other or with persons residing or being within districts declared in insurrection and not within those lines; and all persons within the United States, not native or naturalized citizens thereof, shall be subject to the same prohibitions, in all commercial intercourse with inhabitants of States or parts of States declared in insurrection, as citizens of States not declared to be in insurrection.

Commercial in

mitted.

SEC. 5304. The President may, in his discretion, license and permit tercourse, to commercial intercourse with any part of such State or section, the inwhat extent per- habitants of which are so declared in a state of insurrection, so far as may be necessary to authorize supplying the necessities of loyal persons residing in insurrectionary States, within the lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States, as indicated by published order of the commanding general of the department or district so occupied; and, also, so far as may be necessary to authorize persons residing within such lines to bring or send to market in the loyal States any products which they shall have produced with their own labor or the labor of freedmen, or others employed and paid by them, pursuant to rules relating thereto, which may be established under proper authority. And no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be taken into a State declared in insurrection, or transported therein, except to and from such places and to such monthly amounts as shall have been previously agreed upon, in writing, by the commanding general of the department in which such places are situated, and an officer designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose. Such commercial intercourse shall be in such articles and for such time and by such persons as the President, in his discretion, may think most conducive to the public interest; and, so far as by him licensed, shall be conducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Appointment SEC. 5305. The Secretary of the Treasury may appoint such officers at and compensa- places where officers of the customs are not now authorized by law as tion of officers. may be needed to carry into effect such licenses, rules, and regulations. In all cases where officers of the customs, or other salaried officers, are appointed by him to carry into effect such licenses, rules, and regulations, such officer shall be entitled to receive one thousand dollars a year for his services, in addition to his salary or compensation under any

other law. But the aggregate compensation of any such officer shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year.

SEC. 5306. Every officer of the United States, civil, military, or naval, and every sutler, soldier, marine, or other person, who takes, or causes to be taken into a State declared to be in insurrection, or to any other point to be thence taken into such State, or who transports or sells, or otherwise disposes of therein, any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, except in pursuance of license and authority of the President, as provided in this Title, or who makes any false statement or representation upon which license and authority is granted for such transportation, sale, or other disposition, or who, under any license or authority obtained, willfully and knowingly transports, sells, or otherwise disposes of any other goods, wares, or merchandise than such as are in good faith so licensed and authorized, or who willfully and knowingly transports, sells, or disposes of the same, or any portion thereof, in violation of the terms of such license or authority, or of any rule or regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the same, or who is guilty of any act of embezzlement, of willful misappropriation of public or private money or property, of keeping false accounts, or of willfully making any false returns, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than three years. Violations of this section shall be cognizable before any court, civil or military, competent to try the same.

Trading without license, &c.

SEC. 5307. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from Investigations time to time, to institute such investigations as may be necessary to de- to detect frauds. tect and prevent frauds and abuses in any trade or transactions which may be licensed between inhabitants of loyal States and of States in insurrection. And the agents making such investigations shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to make examinations on oath. [See § 183, FRAUDS, &C.]

ed in aid of in

SEC: 5308. Whenever during any insurrection against the Government Confiscation of of the United States, after the President shall have declared by procla- property employmation that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execu-surrection. tion thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals by law, any person, or his agent, attorney, or employé, purchases or acquires, sells or gives, any property of whatsoever kind or description, with intent to use or employ the same, or suffers the same to be used or employed in aiding, abetting, or promoting such insurrection or resistance to the laws, or any person engaged therein; or being the owner of any such property, knowingly uses or employs, or consents to such use or employment of the same, all such property shall be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found; and it shall be the duty of the President to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, and condemned.

where had.

SEC. 5309. Such prizes and capture shall be condemned in the district Proceedings, or circuit court of the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty in any district in which the same be seized, or into which they may be taken and proceedings first instituted.

SEC. 5310. No property seized or taken upon any of the inland waters Property taken of the United States by the naval forces thereof shall be regarded as on inland waters. maritime prize; but all property so seized or taken shall be promptly delivered to the proper officers of the courts.

stituted.

SEC. 5311. The Attorney-General, or the attorney of the United States. How proceedfor any judicial district in which such property may at the time be, may ings shall be ininstitute the proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for the benefit of the United States; or any person may file an information with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use of such informer and the United States in equal parts. [See § 629.]

SEC. 5312. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prohibit and prevent the transportation in any vessel, or upon any railroad, turnpike, or other road or means of transportation within the United States, of any property, whatever may be the ostensible destination of the same, in all cases where there are satisfactory reasons to believe that such property is intended for any place in the possession or under the control of insurgents against the United States, or that there is imminent danger that such property will fall into the possession or under the control of such insurgents; and he is further authorized, in all cases where he

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