EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 420.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 19 of the Code of

Public Local Laws, title "St. Mary's County," to be known

as Section 119 of said Article.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

New section.

land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to

Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "St. Mary's

County," to be known as Section 119 of said Article.

119. The clerk to the Board of Supervisors of Elections for

Salary of

St. Mary's County shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars

clerk.

per year for services to said Board, to be paid by the County

Commissioners of said county, after the account for services of

said clerk has been approved by the said Board of Supervisors

of Elections.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 421.

AN ACT to repeal Section 2 of Article 59 of the Code of Public

Genera] Laws, entitled "Lunatics and Insane," and to re-en-

act the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Lunatics and

land, That Section 2 of Article 59 of the Code of Public General

insane.

Laws, entitled "Lunatics and Insane," be and the same is here-

by repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

2. From and after the first clay of January, 1909, the State

Department
insane per-

of Maryland shall be charged with the maintenance, care, con-

sons.

trol and treatment of all dependent insane persons who are at

that time residents of the State of Maryland. And as soon as prac-

ticable after the said first day of January, 1900, the State Board

of Lunacy shall transfer from the several county almshouses

and county and city asylums to one of the State hospitals for

the insane such dependent insane persons who are residents of

the State of Maryland as in the judgment of the said Board of

Lunacy should be so removed ; and all such dependent insane

persons, after their removal to one of the State hospitals for

the insane, shall be maintained therein at the expense of the

State. In furtherance of the purposes of this Act a commission

shall be appointed by the Governor, of which he shall be a

member ex-officio, consisting of the Lunacy Commission, who

shall report to the Legislature on or before the 15th day of

January, 1906, such amendments to the present law regulating

the care and treatment of the insane and such other measures,

Care and

including plans for the enlargement of the present State hos-

treatment
of same.

pitals or the creation of other State hospitals, as may to such

commission seem necessary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from

the date oi its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.