1900. ] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 743
No 3. No person shall be deemed entitled to the benefit
of the preceding sections who shall possess or be entitled
to receive a sufficient income for his maintenance and sup-
port as a patient in any home, retreat, or hospital for the
insane in this State, or who has relatives or others legally
chargeable for the support of the said person who are
able to pay for the maintenance and support of the said
person as a patient at any home, retreat or hospital for
the insane in this State. The County Commissioners of
any county, or the Supervisors of City Charities of the
Department of Charities and Corrections of the city of
Baltimore, may consent in writing to the commitment in
accordance with the provisions of section one of this
Article, of any indigent insane person from the respec-
tive counties or the city aforesaid not able to pay the
whole cost of his maintenance, but who may be able to
pay for part thereof, as a reimbursing patient, and
designate the rate per week which shall be reim-
bursed to the county or city of Baltimore, from which
said patient is committed; but no person shall be com-
mitted as a reimbursing patient who is himself able, or
who has relatives or others legally chargeable with the
support of sai4 person, who are able to pay the rates for
private patients at the State hospitals, or at any institu-
tion or retreat for the insane within the State.
31. No person shall be committed to or confined as a
patient in any institution, public, corporate or private, or
almshouse or other place for the care and custody of the
insane or idiotic, except upon the written certificates of
two qualified physicians cf the State of Maryland, made
within one week after separate examination by them of
said alleged lunatic, and setting forth the insanity or
idiocy of such person, and the reason for such opinion.
No certificate shall be of force which shall be presented
for the commitment of any patient more than thirty days
After date of examination. The form of physician's cer-
tificates shall be substantially as follows:
State of Maryland, county of, dated.
I, a resident of the county or city of, being
a graduate of. Medical College, and having
practiced as a physician five years, do hereby certify,
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