furnish all needed medical treatment, seclusion, rest, restraint, attendance, amusement, occupation and support which may tend to restore their health and recover them from insanity or to alleviate their sufferings; provided, that the trustees shall have power to discharge patients and to refuse additional applications for admission to the hospital under their care, whenever in their judgment the interests of the insane demand such discharge or refusal; and that in the admission and attention of patients, curables and recent cases shall have the preference over cases of long standing, and that violent, dangerous or otherwise troublesome cases shall have preference over those of an opposite description.
Trustees may take land.s. 4, c. 68, 1885.
§ 237. The board of trustees of each hospital may take in the name of the territory and hold in trust for the hospitals, any lands conveyed or devised, and any money or personal property given or bequeathed, to be applied for any purpose connected with either institution; provided, they shall not have power to bind the territory by any contract, beyond the amount of the appropriation which may at the time have been made for the purpose expressed in the contract, nor to sell or convey any part of the real estate belonging to said hospitals without the consent of the legislature, except that they may release any mortgage or convey any real estate which may be held by them as security for any money or upon any trust, the terms of which authorize such conveyance. No trustee or officer of either hospital shall be either directly or indirectly interested in any contract for the purchase of building material, supplies or other articles for the use of the institution. They shall provide and keep a seal upon which shall be inscribed the name of the hospital, with such other words and devices as they may deem appropriate.
Per diem of trustees.s. 5, c. 68, 1885.
§ 238. The trustees shall be paid at the rate of three dollars per day for the time necessarily incurred in the discharge of their official duties, and five cents per mile going and returning necessarily traveled in the discharge of said duties. Upon the presentation of the proper vouchers containing an itemized statement of the sum due each trustee for services rendered, and for mileage, duly signed by the president of the board of trustees and countersigned by the secretary of said board, the territorial auditor shall draw his warrant upon the territorial treasurer therefor, to be paid out of the territorial treasury.
Officers of board.s. 6, c. 68, 1885.
§ 239. The trustees of each board shall elect a president and secretary from their own number, whose term of office shall be for one year or until said board shall elect their successors. They shall make a record of their proceedings at all meetings, in a book kept for that purpose; and at their annual meeting next preceding the regular session of the legislature they shall each make a report to the governor of the condition and wants of their respective hospitals, which shall be accompanied by a full and accurate report of the superintendent, which shall show the annual cost per capita of the inmates and the per cent. of discharges and recoveries, and a detailed account of all moneys received and paid out by the steward, and shall have not less than five hundred copies of said report printed.
Fiscal year-Meetings of the board.s. 7, c. 68, 1885.
§ 240. The fiscal year of the hospital shall close on the thirtieth day of November each year, and the annual meeting of the boards of trustees respectively shall be held on the first Wednesday of December thereafter at the hospital. Special meetings for the appointment or removal of resident officers, or for the
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