The trustees shall have and exercise the same powers relative to patients and their property as towns and boards of public welfare have relative to persons supported or relieved by them, and the same powers as said boards to return patients of said hospital to the place or country from which they came.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 122, § 10
Powers of trustees relative to patients and their property
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