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 officers of the hospital against all liability to prosecution of any kind, on account of the reception and detention of such persons in the hospital, provided such detention shall be otherwise in accordance with the laws and by-laws regulating its management.

§ 257. The superintendent shall affix the seal of the hospital to any notice, order of discharge, report, or other paper required to be given or issued by him.

§ 258. The trustees of the hospital shall provide for furnishing the commissioners of insanity of the counties entitled to send patients to the hospital, with such blanks for warrants, certificates, etc., as will enable them with regularity and facility to comply with the provisions of the law, and also with copies of the by-laws of the hospital, when printed.

§ 259. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use any portion of section thirty-six, township ninety-four, range fifty-six, as a burying ground, or to bury any dead body thereon, and any person or persons violating or causing any other person to violate the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 260. The boards of commissioners of insanity in each organized county lying north of the forty-sixth paralel of latitude, and in each county in which the greater portion shall be north of said parallel, shall transact all business arising under this article with the trustees and officers of the North Dakota hospital for the insane. The boards of commissioners of all organized counties south of the above described territory, shall transact all business with the Dakota hospital for the insane at Yankton; and the territory of Dakota is hereby divided into two districts as above described for the purposes of this act, and shall be known as the district of South Dakota, and the district of North Dakota, and the patients from the district of South Dakota shall be taken to and cared for at the said Dakota hospital for the insane, and the patients from the district of North Dakota shall be taken to and cared for at the said North Dakota hospital for the insane.

§ 261. The Dakota school for deaf mutes is hereby established and located on the southwest quarter of section number fifteen, in township number one hundred and one, range number forty-nine, in the county of Minnehaha, and within the corporate limits of the city of Sioux Falls, Dakota territory, and shall be under the charge of a board of trustees to consist of five residents of this territory.

§ 262. The governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the council, appoint said trustees, whose term of office shall be for two years and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

§ 263. The trustees so appointed, before entering upon their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the act organizing the territory of Dakota, and to faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge the