City of New York Municipal Court December 12, 1889 (In re Approval of Medical Certificates of Insanity)

Per Curiam.

Under Act of 1874, c. 446, no person can be confined as a patient in an asylum for the insane except upon the certificate of two duly-qualified physicians, setting forth the insanity of such person. The confinement cannot exceed five days, unless within that time the certificate shall be approved by a judge of a court of record of the county in which the alleged lunatic resides.