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Educational Institutions. other cases, unless the patient shall be discharged, or unless for good reasons they shall relieve the relatives from any part or all of such burden, as may seem to them reasonable and just.

§ 252. Any patient who is cured shall be immediately discharged by the superintendent. Upon such discharge the superintendent shall furnish the patient, unless otherwise supplied, with suitable clothing, and a sum of money not exceeding twenty dollars, which shall be charged with the other expenses, in the hospital, of such patient. The relatives of any patient not susceptible of cure by medical treatment in the hospital, and not dangerous to be at large, shall have the right to take charge of and remove such patient on consent of the board of trustees; provided, fiat in the interim of the meetings of the board the consent of two of the trustees shall be sufficient.

§ 253. On application of the relatives or immediate friends of any patient in the hospital who is not cured, and who cannot be safely allowed to go at liberty, the commissioners of insanity of the county where such patient belongs, on making provision for the care of such patient within the county as in other cases, may authorize his or her discharge therefrom; provided, that no patient who may be under charge or conviction of homicide shall be discharged without the order of the board of trustees.

§ 254. When patients are discharged from the hospital by the authorities thereof, without application therefor, notice of the order of discharge shall at once be sent to the commissioners of insanity of the county where they belong, and the commissioners shall forth with cause them to be removed, and shall at once provide for their care in the county, as in other cases, unless such patients are discharged as cured. And if the said commissioners of such county where the said patient belongs fail or neglect to take and remove such patient so discharged, as provided in this section, within thirty days from the date of the order discharging him, and of the notice of the order so sent, the said county where said patient belongs shall be liable for and pay to the territory of Dakota at the rate of two dollars per day for the care and keeping of such patient at the said hospital; such time for said keeping to be computed and commence thirty days after the date of said order and notice. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of said hospital to report any and all such delinquencies, and the time of any and all patients so kept beyond such time aforesaid, giving the names thereof, the county where the said patient or patients belong, the amount due from such county for such charge, to the governor of the territory, for the year ending on the thirtieth day of November of each year. It shall be the duty of the territorial board of equalization to include and charge said amount or amounts so reported as aforesaid to each county or counties so named, and the same shall be included and made a part of the tax levied against such county or counties, in addition to the amount so levied by said board for territorial purposes.

§ 255. Upon the report of the superintendent, provided in section 254, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to bring suit against the county so indebted, for the amount due the territory, and any judgment obtained in such action may be enforced as other judgments against counties are enforced.

§ 256. The warrant of the commissioners of insanity authorizing the admission of any person to the hospital as a patient, accompanied by a physician's certificate as herein provided, shall operate to shield the superintendent and other