An Act to amend an Act of the last Session, for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics, and for the Provision, Maintenance, and Regulation of Lunatic Asylums, in Scotland.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Fifty-fifth Year of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to regulate Madhouses in Scotland, Sheriffs of Counties are authorized to grant Licences for the Reception and Confinement of Lunatics, and have been in use to license separate Portions or Wards of Poorhouses for the Reception of Pauper Lunatics: And whereas by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics, and for the Pr...