124 ALIENS. [AETS. 3 & 4

ARTICLE III.

ALIENS.

1. Rights of aliens to hold and dispose of real estate.

1904. art. 3, sec. 1. 1888, art. 3, sec. 1. 1S74, ch. 354
1. Aliens, not enemies, may take and hold lands, tenements and
hereditaments acquired by purchase, or to which they would, if citizens,
be entitled by descent; and may sell, devise or dispose of the same, or
transmit the same to their heirs, as fully and effectually, and in the
-tame manner, as if by birth, they were citizens of this State.

ARTICLE IV,

ALMSHOUSES AND TRUSTEES OF THE POOR.

1. Name of institutions for care of 3. Pauper children to be placed in
poor. family or school and visited.

2. Time certain children may be re-
tained in county home.

1906, ch. 32.

1. From and after February 27, 1906, all institutions in the counties
of this State which are maintained by the county for the care and
custody of the indigent poor shall be known under the name and style
of the County Home for the respective counties; that is to say, the
institution now known as the Almshouse of Allegany county shall be
called the Allegany County Home, and so with the almshouses in all
other counties of the State. The Trustees of the Poor of the repective
counties of this State shall have painted an appropriate sign bearing
the name of the County Home, to wit: "Allegany County Home," ot
other county, as the name shall require, which name shall be placed over
the front door or entrance to such home, and shall be kept in good order.

1904, art. 4, sec. 1. 1888, art. 4, sec. 1. 1886, ch. 262. 1906, ch. 32.

2. It shall not be lawful for the Trustees of the Poor of the city of
Baltimore, or the County Commissioners or Trustees of the Poor of
any of the counties of this State to receive into or retain in any County
Home any child between three and sixteen years of age for a longer
period than ninety days, unless such child be an unteachable idiot, an
epileptic, or a paralytic, or be otherwise so disabled or deformed as to
render it incapable of labor or service.