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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 603.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 1i, 3 and 31, of Article 59, of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Lunatics and Insane,"
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

lunatics and
insane.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 1, 3 and 31, of Article 59, of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Lunatics and Insane," be and
the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read,
respectively, as follows:

Indigent
insane.
How cared for

1. When any person is alleged to be a lunatic or insane,
and without sufficient means to pay for his or her maintenance
at an asylum, and who has no relative or relatives, or others
legally chargeable with his or her support, the County Com-
missioners of the county in which such person may reside, or
the Supervisors of City Charities of the Deparment of Chari-
ties and Corrections of the City of Baltimore (if such person
resides in the City of Baltimore) shall, upon the written cer-
tificates of two qualified physicians, made in accordance with
the provisions of Section thirty-one, of this Article, cause
such person to be sent to the almshouse of the county or city
to which he belongs, or to an hospital or some other place
better suited to his condition, there to be confined at the ex-
pense of the county or city until he shall have recovered and
be discharged in due course of law; but if demanded by the
alleged lunatic or insane person, or any of his relatives or
friends, or if requested by the Board of County Commissioners
of the county in which the alleged lunatic or insane person
resides, or by the Supervisors of the City Charities of the
Department of Charities and Corrections of the City of Balti-
more, if said person resides therein, the Circuit Court for the

Jury shall
investigate
cases of in-
sanity, etc.

county in which such person may reside, or the Criminal
Court of Baltimore (if such person resides in the City of Balti-
more) shall cause a jury of twelve good and lawful men to be
empaneled forthwith, and shall charge the said jury to in-
quire whether such person is insane or lunatic, and if found
so, it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners or the
Supervisors of City Charities of the Department of Charities
and Corrections of Baltimore City to cause such person to be
sent to the almshouse of the county or city to which he belongs,
or to an hospital, or to some other place better suited to his
condition, there to be confined at the expense of the county
or city, until he shall have recovered and be discharged in
due course of law. It shall be the duty of any Board of County
Commissioners and the Supervisors of the City Charities of