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LUNATICS AND INSANE.

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48. Care and treatment of epileptic children. 49. Annual appropriation. 50. Visitors to report to lunacy com- mission as to wards of state. 51. Lunacy commission to examine In- mates and report to court. 52. Court to examine report. 53. Gifts, legacies, etc., sanctioned. Hospital for Negro Insane. 54. Hospital established; proviso.

55. Board of managers. By-laws. Re- ports. 56. Expiration of term of office of board; vacancies. 57. Land to be purchased; buildings constructed. 58. Expenses. New Buildings. 59. Plans to be prepared and buildings erected. 60. Appropriations from Insane hos- pitals loan.

Lunatic or Insane Paupers.

1904, art. 59, sec. 1. 1888, art. 59, sec. 1. 1860, art. 58, sec. 1. 1834. ch. 194.

1900, ch. 603.

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 commissioners of the county in which such
person may reside, or the supervisors of city charities of the depart-
ment of charities and corrections of the city of Baltimore (if such per-
son resides in the city of Baltimore), shall, upon the written certificates
of two qualified physicians made in. accordance with the provisions
of section 31, cause such person to be sent to the almshouse of the
county or city to which he or she belongs, or to a hospital or some
other place better suited to his or her condition, there to be confined
at the expense of the county or city until he or she shall have recovered
and he discharged in due course of law; but if demanded by the alleged
lunatic or insane person or any of his or her 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 Baltimore, if said person resides therein, the circuit court for
the county in which such person may reside, or the criminal court of
Baltimore, (if such person resides in the city of Baltimore) shall cause
a jury of twelve good and lawful men to be empanelled forthwith and
shall charge the said jury to inquire whether such person is insane or
lunatic, and if found so it shall 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 or she belongs, or to a
hospital, or to some other place better suited to his or her condition.
there to be confined at the expense of the county or city, until he or she
shall have recovered and be discharged in due course of law. It shall
be the duty of any board of county commissioners or the supervisors
of the city charities of the department of charities and corrections of