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 318 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1618. 1904. station or house of detention in said District pending the completion of arrangements for his or her temporary detention in the Government Hospital for the Insane or any other hospital or insane asylum; and such persons may be detained in any police station or house of detention 1D said District until formal y committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane or any other hospital or asylum, in the manner rovided by law, in case he or she can not be provided for by the said Government Hospital for the Insane and no arrangement can be made for his or her temporary detention in any other hospital or asylum: mgudelm Pm/vided, hvwever, That if, pending the formal commitment of such me- alleged insane person or person of unsound mind to the Government Hospital forthe Insane or to an other hospital or asylum, the superintendent of said Government Hospital for the Insane, in the case of the commitment of a person to said hospital under the provisions of this Act, or if two or more physicians in regular attendance at any other hospital or asylum where any person is committed under the provisions of this Act, or if two or more surgeons of the police and re de rtments, in the case of any person detained at any] police stat:ionTo¤1se or house of detention im er the rovisions of t isAct, shall certify in writing to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia that such person is not insane or that he or she has recovered his or her reason, the official in charge of the Government Hospital for the Insane or the hospital or asylum in which such person is confined, or the major and su rintendent of said Metropolitan police, if such person be confinedpiajn a police station house or in a house of detention, R°P°"'· shall dischar e such alleged insane person or person of unsound mind forthwith and immediately report such action to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. ughdlty °* °“"m‘ Sec. 5. That for the {purposes of this Act no certificate as to the sanity or the insanity o any person shall be valid which has been . issued (a) by a physician who has not been regularly licensed to prac- ‘ tice medicine in the District of Columbia, unless he be a commissioned surgeon of the United States Army, Navy, or Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service; or (b) by a physician who is not a permanent resident of the District of Columbia; or (c) by a. physician who has not been actively en d in the practice of his rofession for at least three years; or (d)  a physician who is related) by blood or by marriage to the person w ose mental condition is in uestion. Nor. shall any certiiicate alleging the insanity of an person(l>e valid which has been issued by a hysician who is financially interested in the hospital or asylum in which the alleged insane rson is to be confined, or who is grofessionally or officially connectedxtherewith. w§’jf,‘,'§f,§._ '°" “‘l‘° Sec. 6. hat any rson who makes an afiidavit, as required by section one or two ofpthis Act, by which he or she secures or attempts to Secure the apprehension, detention, or restraint of any other person in the District of Columbia without probable cause for believing such person to be insane or of unsound mind, or any physician who knowingly makes any false certificate as to the sanity or insanitv of any other person shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more thats filve hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or ot . B"`*’““· Sec. 7. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, April 27, 1904.