322 HOSPITAL—MARYLAND. [ART. 44.

15. If any judge, whether in court or out of court, shall refuse
any writ of habeas corpus by this article required to be granted,
he shall be liable to the action of the party grieved.

16. No citizen of this State committed to the custody of an
officer for any criminal matter, shall be removed from thence into
the custody of another officer, unless it be by habeas corpus or
by other legal writ, except where the prisoner shall be delivered
to a constable or other inferior officer, to be carried to some
common jail, or shall be removed from one place to another
within the said county or an adjoining county, in order to his
discharge or trial in due course of law; or in case of sudden fire
or infection, or other necessity; or where the prisoner shall be
charged by affidavit or other lawful evidence, with treason, felony
or other crime alleged to be done in any other of the United
States of America or the Territories thereof—in which last case
he shall, on the demand of the executive authority of the State,
District, or Terrritory from which he fled, be immediately de-
livered up.

ARTICLE XLIV.
Hospital-Maryland.

SEC. 1. The present Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, con-
sisting of one from each county and eleven from the city of
Baltimore, and the president and vice president chosen as here-
inafter directed, are a body politic and corporate, by the name
of the President and Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, and
shall by that name have perpetual succession, may sue and be
sued in any court of this State, may have and use a common seal,
and may at their pleasure alter and change the same, and may
purchase, hold and receive, sell, demise or dispose of, any pro-
perty, real, personal or mixed, as they shall judge to be most
beneficial and advantageous to the good and charitable ends and
purposes of the institution.

2. At any meeting of the Board of the Maryland Hospital,
which consists of President, Vice President and Visitors, any
seven members shall be a quorum, competent to exercise all the
powers and execute all the duties conferred by this article.