Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty : resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that His Excellency the governor, by and with the advice and consent of Council, be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to erect, or cause to be erected, a hospital, within this commonwealth, suitable for the accommodation of one hundred and twenty lunatics, or persons furiously mad, and for a superintendant over the same, at such place, and of such materials as he shall deem most eligible therefor ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts. General Court.

Series:

House (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives) ; 1830, no. 13.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

House ; no. 13

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill--Massachusetts.

Mentally ill.

Psychiatric hospitals--Massachusetts.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 unnumbered page).

Manufacture:

[Boston] : [Dutton and Wentworth], [1830]

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1830]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Caption title. Series statement at head of title.

Dutton and Wentworth were printers to the state in 1830.

Imprint information partially inferred from caption.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

937011312

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.