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The Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, 1911
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1160 HOSPITAL——MARYLAND. [ART. 44

and employe, and compensation of each; all which reports shall be laid
before the general assembly during the first ten days of its session.

1904, art. 44, sec. 11. 1888, art. 44, sec. 11. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 9. 1894, ch. 450.

11. They shall provide accommodation for at least four hundred
pauper lunatics of this State, who may be sent to the said hospital foi
curative treatment; which number shall be from time to time appor-
tioned by them among the several counties and the city of Baltimore,
according to the population as ascertained by the preceding census.
The sum. of money to be paid by the several counties, respectively, for
the support and care of their insane paupers, shall be annually esti-
mated and determined by the board of managers of said hospital, who
shall report to the county commissioners of each county the amount so
due by it, not later than the tenth day of January in each year, and
such estimate shall be upon the basis of the number of patients in said
hospital from said county of the first day of each year, at the rate of
one hundred and fifty dollars per capita per annum; and the money so
ascertained to be due by each county, the county commissioners of said
county are hereby authorized and required to levy annually upon the
assessable property of said county, to be collected in the same manner
as other taxes now or shall hereafter be collected; and the treasurer of
said county, and if there be no treasurer, the county commissioners of
said county, is and are hereby authorized and-directed to pay said sum
of money to the comptroller of the State in two equal instalments, one-
half on the thirty-first day of December, and the other half on the
thirtieth day of September in each year; and said comptroller shall,
immediately upon the receipt of any of said instalments, pay over the
same to the board of managers of said hospital. The expenses of any
patients in said hospital from any county in excess of its quota, as herein
provided, shall be ascertained, levied and paid for in like manner,
as provided for its quota. The board of managers of said hospital are
hereby empowered and authorized to enforce the provisions of this sec-
tion by writs of mandamus, or to collect the moneys so ascertained by
them to be due and payable in any other way authorized by law, and
may bring suit upon the bond of the treasurer of any county, and if
there be no treasurer, may bring suit against the county commissioners
of said county, in case the moneys so due by said county shall have been
paid to said treasurer or county commissioners, and he or they, as the
case, may be, shall not have forwarded it to the comptroller as required
herein.

See notes to sec. 2.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1888. art. 44, sec. 12. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 10.

12. They may receive into the hospital as pay patients insane per-
sons, other than the pauper lunatics referred to in the preceding sec-
tion, to a number not exceeding seventy-five at any one time.
See notes to sec. 2.

 

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