LibGuides: Locked Away: Historical Incarceration of the Insane in Louisiana: Legislative Acts

1820s

AN ACT to amend the several acts relative to the administration of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in the general plan of the buildings to be erected on the tract of land purchased from John Baron, for the account of that charitable institution, for the purpose of establishing the hospital in a permanent manner, it shall be the duty of the administrators to cause a separate building to be erected as an appertenance of said establishment, in order to receive and attend such persons as may have fallen into a state of insanity.

Approved, March 11th, 1820

1850s

1852 Act No. 130
AN ACT Relative to the Lunatic Asylum
1853 Resolution 133
Creation of inspection team
1855 Act No. 121
An ACT Relative to Criminal Proceedings (see section 18)
1855 Act No. 327
AN ACT To establish an Insane Asylum, and to regulate the same.

1900s

1902 Act No. 92
AN ACT To establish an insane asylum for colored persons; providing for its management and regulation; imposing fines and penalties for the violation of its provisions, and making
appropriation for the construction of necessary buildings.
1904 Act No. 143
AN ACT To amend and re-enact, the title and Sections 1, 2, 8, 9, 15 and 16 of Act No. 92 of the session of the General Assembly of 1902, approved July 5, 1902, entitled An act to establish an insane asylum for colored persons; providing for its management and regulation; imposing fines and penalties for the violation of its provisions, and making appropriations for the construction of necessary buildings.
1906 Act No. 154
AN ACT To apportion the insane to the State Insane Asylums.
1908 Act No. 88
Appropriations. (portion)
1908 Act No. 98
Section 7, lists of criminals and insane

19teens

1914 Act No. 98
AN ACT Making an appropriation to pay a deficiency of Sixteen Thousand
Nine Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($16,950) in the cost of two new dormitories at the Louisiana Hospital for the Insane, at Pineville.
1918 Act No. 42
AN ACT To authorize the Superintendents and other officers of Hospitals for the Insane to arrest offenders violating the laws designed to protect the property and inmates of such hospitals.
1918 Act No. 141
AN ACT To establish the "State Colony and Training School" for the
feeble-minded and to provide for its government, management, control and maintenance and making an appropriation therefor, providing for the trial and conduction of the feeble-minded to said institution; imposing fines and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.
1918 Act No. 261
AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section four of Act No. 264 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, Session of 1910, relative to the Criminal insane.

1840s

1840 Act No. 114
AN ACT For the relief of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans to put the insane into Charity Hospital
1844 Act No. 32
AN ACT in relation to Insane persons
1847 Act No. 69
AN ACT To establish an Insane Asylum in the State of Louisiana
1848 Act No. 67
Supplementary to an act entitled, "An act to establish an Insane Asylum in the State of Louisiana," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

1870s

1874 Act No. 50
AN ACT To amend an act entitled " An Act to establish an Insane Asylum and to regulate the same," approved March 15, 1855 [1761 Revised Statutes].
1875 Act No. 10 Ex. Sess.
AN ACT To amend an act entitled an act to establish an insane asylum, and to regulate the same, approved March 15, 1855 (1761 Revised Statutes), and also to amend an act in reference thereto, approved March 12, 1874.

1910

1910 Act No. 174
Name change for the Jackson asylum
1910 Act No. 253
AN ACT To provide proper proceedings relative to the insane, and for their admission to the Insane Hospitals of the State, and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.
1910 Act No. 264
AN ACT Relative to the criminal insane; to provide for separate wards for the criminal insane in the State Hospital for the Insane at Jackson, Louisiana, and to provide the conditions upon which the criminal insane may be restored to liberty, returned to the several parishes for trial, or delivered to the proper sheriff or official for the carrying out of the sentence of the court, upon regaining their sanity, and to repeal all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.

1920s

1920 Act No. 133
AN ACT To provide for the admission of feebleminded perscons to the
"State Colony and Training School" by the Superintendent; for the transfer of the feebleminded persons from the Louisiana Hospital for the insane and the East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane to the "State Colony and Training School;" for the transfer of insane persons from the "State Colony and training School" to a hospital for the insane; and for the parole to homes, of inmates of the "State Colony
and Training School."
1921 Act No. 101 Ex. Sess.
AN ACT An Act creating, a Board of Charities and Corrections and to
carry into effect Section-10 of Article 6 of the Constitution.
1922 Act No. 27
AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 1 of Act No. 133 of 1920, entitled "'To provide for the admission of feebleminded persons to the 'State Colony and Training School' by the Superintendent; for the transfer of the feebleminded persons from the Louisiana Hospital for the Insane and the East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane to the 'State Colony and Training School'; for the transfer of insane persons from the 'State Colony and Training School' to a Hospital for the insane; and for the parole to homes, of inmates of the 'State Colony and Training School.' "
1928 Act No. 174
AN ACT To make it the duty of the members and heads of certain public boards, commissions, state institutions, state departments and officials handling public funds, to file with the Secretary of State and the State Auditor at fixed periods, certain statements and reports showing their receipts and expenditures of all funds in detail, together with the names of all employees and salaries or compensations paid each, and to provide a penalty for the violation hereof, and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.

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