ART. 59] PAUPERS. 1417

the city of Baltimore, before whom any such alleged lunatic or insane
person is brought for commitment under this section, if not satisfied
that such person is lunatic or insane, as defined in section 3, to notify
the state's attorney of said county or city, and he shall immediately
thereupon bring the said question before the circuit court for the said
county or the criminal court of Baltimore for determination in accord-
ance with the provisions of this section. Nothing contained in this
section shall prevent the friends or relatives of such lunatic or insane
person from confining him or her or providing for his or her comfort.

Cited but not construed in Baltimore v. Keeley Institute, 81 Md. 114.
As to inebriates or habitual drunkards, se.e art. 16, sec. 51.
As to hospitals for the insane, see also, art. 44.

1904, art. 59, sec. 2: 1888, art. 59, sec. 2. 1860, art. 58, sec. 2. 1817, ch. 78.
1904. ch. 421. 1908, ch. 435.

2. From and after the first day of January, 1911, the State of
Maryland shall be charged with the maintenance, care, control and
treatment of all dependent insane persons who are at that time resi-
dents of the State of Maryland, and as soon as practicable after the
said first day of January, 1911, 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 section 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 fifteenth day of January, 1910, such amendments to
the present law regulating the care and treatment of the insane and
such other measures, including plans for the enlargement of the pres-
ent state hospitals or the creation of other state hospitals, as may to
such commission seem necessary.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1888. art. 59, sec. 3. 1860, art. 58, sec. 3. 1824, ch. 49. 1900, ch. 603.

3. No person shall be deemed entitled to the benefit of the preced-
ing sections who shall possess or be entitled to receive sufficient income
for his or her maintenance and support as a patient in any home, retreat
or hospital for the insane in this State or who has relatives or others
legally chargeable with his or her support who are able to pay for the
"maintenance and support of the said person as a patient at any home
retreat or" hospital for the insane in this State. The county commis-
sioners of any county or the supervisors of city charities of the depart-
ment of charities and corrections of the city of Baltimore may consent
in writing to the commitment in accordance with the provisions of
section 1, of any indigent insane person from the respective counties or
the city aforesaid not able to pay the whole cost of his or her mainte-
nance, but who may be able to pay for part thereof, as a reimbursing