Chap. 0321 An Act relative to the care of the insane of the city of boston.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloics:

Section two of chapter four hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred is hereby amended by inserting after the word "city", in the fourth line, the words: - and are cared for in said hospitals, - so as to read as follows : - Section 2. The hospitals now or hereafter established and maintained by the city of Boston for the board, care and treatment of the insane, and all insane persons who have a settlement in said city and are cared for in said hospitals, shall be excepted from the operation of this act and shall be and remain under the operation of the existing acts relating to insane persons; and the
bills for the board, care and treatment of patients in said hospitals, from and after said first day of January, at the rate of three dollars and twenty-live cents per week, or as hereafter fixed by the legislature, shall be paid by the Commonwealth, except the bills of patients who, or whose kindred bound by law to support such patients, are of sufficient ability to pay for such board, care and treatment as determined by the board having charge of said hospitals. Approved May 5, 1903.