Chap. 0314 An Act relative to the charges for support of inmates of state hospitals under the department of mental diseases and of insane inmates of the state infirmary and of the bridgewater state hospital, not under orders of court.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section ninety-six of chapter one hundred and twenty-three of the General Laws, as amended in the first paragraph by section three of chapter three hundred and seventeen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-one, is hereby further amended by striking out said first paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following: - Section 96. The price for the support of inmates of state hospitals and insane inmates of the state infirmary and of the Bridgewater state hospital, not under orders of a court, shall be determined by the department at a sum not exceeding ten dollars per week for each person, and may be recovered of such persons or of the husband, wife, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, child or grandchild if of
sufficient ability. A married woman shall be subject to the said liability as though sole. Such action shall be brought by the attorney general in the name of the state treasurer.
Approved April 80, 1925.