ART. 44] SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL. 1161

1904, art. 44, sec. 13. 1888, art. 44, sec. 13. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 11.

13. The circuit courts for the several counties, and the criminal

court of Baltimore, in accordance with the provisions of this code, are
hereby authorized to send, from time to time, to the said hospital,
pauper lunatics of this State, to the number to which the respective

counties and city of Baltimore shall respectively be entitled under sec-
tion 11.

See notes to sec. 2.

Ibid. see 14. 1888, art. 44, sec. 14. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 12.

14. There shall be appropriated, and the treasurer of the State,
upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay to the managers of the
Maryland hospital for the insane, annually, in equal quarterly pay-
ments, on the first days of January, April, July and October in each
and every year, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the support of
said hospital.

See notes to sec. 2.

See art. 19, sections 41 and 42.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1888, art. 44, sec. 15. 1886, ch. 205, sec. 14.

15. The said board of managers shall erect and maintain in safe
and proper repair a substantial and sufficient fence and enclosure of the
height of at least seven feet, constructed of palings not less than six
inches in width, with proper gates, securely fastened and guarded at
all times, around the said hospital and hospital grounds; and shall
adopt and enforce all other reasonable and necessary safeguards to
prevent lunatic patients, who may be confined or under treatment in
said hospital, from escaping or wandering beyond the limits of said
grounds and enclosure.

Springfield State Hospital.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1894, ch. 231, sees. 1 and 2. 1900, ch. 70, sec. 16 A.

16. There shall be established in this State accessible by railroad
or water transportation an institution to be called the Springfield state
hospital, which shall be under the control of the board of managers
hereinafter provided for. The said board of managers shall consist of
the governor, for the time being, ex officio, state treasurer, comptroller of
the treasury and six other persons, who shall be appointed by the gov-
ernor, as follows: Two to serve for the term of six years, two to serve
for the term of four years and two to serve for the term of two years
each from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and
the board so created shall constitute a body corporate under the title of
Springfield state hospital, and shall have power to make such by-laws,
rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as they may deem neces-
sary and proper for the public welfare and the best interests of the insti-
tution and its inmates, and shall also have power to appoint the neces-
sary officers and agents, who shall be removable at their pleasure, and