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1 & 2 Vict. c. 27. s. 2.
Lord lieutenant may discharge a person committed as a dangerous lunatic if cured.
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11. And whereas by the said Act it is also amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for the lord lieutenant, if he should so think fit, to direct, by warrant under his hand, that any person who might be detained in custody in any gaol by virtue of any such warrant as aforesaid should be removed to the lunatic asylum established either wholly or in part for the county, county of a city, or county of a town in which such person should be in custody; and every such person so removed should remain under confinement in every asylum to which such person might be removed until it should be duly certified to the said lord lieutenant, by two physicians or surgeons, or a surgeon and physician, that such person had become of sound mind, whereupon the said lord lieutenant was thereby authorized to issue his or their warrant to the keeper or other person should be discharged: Be it enacted, that whenever it shall be duly certified to the said lord lieutenant, in manner aforesaid, that any such person has become of sound mind, or has ceased to be or is not a dangerous lunatic or a dangerous idiot, it shall and may be lawful for the said lord lieutenant, and he is hereby authorized, to issue his warrant to the keeper or other person having the care of any such asylum, directing that such person shall be discharged.
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