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Excerpt from Sixth Biennial Report of the Board of Control of Minnesota: Period Ending July 31, 1912 In our judgment the county should be made responsible for the main tenance charge to the extent of at least one-half of such cost and be given authority to recoup itself in the ways suggested. The county, however, should not be responsible for maintenance of non-resident insane. Where residence cannot be fixed in some county, the state should assume the main tenance charge. We do not believe this plan unjust, The state contributes its vast investment in institution buildings and grounds, amounting to mil lions of dollars. From 1861 to 1910, inclusive the state expended for sup port of the insane without counting the cost of buildings. It will continue to construct new buildings as needed and to acquire ad ditional lands, at the cost of the general treasury. There has been for many years a charge for the keeping of the inmates of the institution for the feeble-minded. The system has worked well there and has never been seriously criticised. We believe it due to the people of the state that this reform in the laws governing the care of the insane, so often urged, become embodied in legislation without further delay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.