While engaged in the practice of the law in my state, it fell to my lot to be appointed by the Court in my county, as the "Committee" of a so-called hopeless lunatic; a man who otherwise seemed to be of sturdy frame and vigor. Having assumed control and charge of his estate and affairs in compliance with the law, I decided, for certain reasons, to visit the unfortunate, who was then closely confined in a narrow cell in jail awaiting his transference to the State Asylum.
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