Pennsylvania Act 1887-80 — SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, STATE HOSPITALS

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SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, STATE HOSPITALS
                  Act of May 19, 1887, P.L. 135, No. 80               Cl. 35
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "An act to provide for the selection of a
        site and erection of a State hospital for injured persons, to
        be located in the counties of Schuylkill, Carbon, Dauphin,
        Northumberland and Columbia, to be called the State Hospital
        for Injured Persons of the Anthracite Coal Region, and for
        the management of the same, and making an appropriation
        therefor," approved the eleventh day of June, Anno Domini one
        thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine; also amending
        section nine of said act.

        Section 1.  Contributions; quarterly statement
        It shall be lawful for the trustees of said hospital to
     receive contributions or donations from any person, firm or
     corporation offering to contribute or donate any money, or other
     valuable consideration, whether by will, deed, gift or
     otherwise, to aid in the support, maintenance, and for improving
     the property of said hospital: Provided, That the proceeds of
     all contributions or donations received by the said trustees,
     under the provisions of this section, shall be specially
     appropriated for the purpose herein stated: Provided further,
     That an itemized statement of the same, showing the whole amount
     of money received by the said trustees, under the provisions of
     this section, and the name or names of any person, firm or
     corporation contributing or donating the same, together with an
     itemized statement of the expenditures of said money, shall be
     made quarterly, under oath, to the Auditor General, the same as
     statements for State appropriations are now required by law.
     1887, May 19, P.L. 135, Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  Certain patients may be charged for treatment
        The trustees of said hospital may, from time to time, charge
     any patient, other than those of the classes named in section
     three of this act, an amount sufficient to cover the cost of
     treatment: Provided however, That paying patients shall not be
     admitted to said hospital to the exclusion of the classes named
     in said section three of this act. 1887, May 19, P.L. 135, Sec.
     2.