1426 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

said superintendent or manager or keeper, to arrest and return to such
asylum or other institution for the treatment of the insane any insane
person who may escape therefrom.

1904, art. 59, sec. 31. 1888, art. 59, sec. 31. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 32. 1900, ch. 603.

31. No person shall be committed to or confined as a patient in
any institution, public, corporate or private, or almshouse or other
place for the care and custody of the insane or idiotic except upon the
written certificates of two qualified physicians of the State of Mary-
land made within one week after separate examination by them of said
alleged lunatic and setting forth the insanity or idiocy of such person

and the reason for such opinion. No certificate shall be of, force which
shall be presented for the commitment of any patient more than thirty
days after date of examination. The form of physician's certificate
shall be substantially as follows:

State of Maryland, county or city of ————. Dated ————, I, a
resident of the county or city of ————, being a graduate of ————
Medical College and having practised as a physician five years, do
Hereby certify that on this ———— day of ———— I have personally
examined ———, age ————, (sex) ————, ———— (social state),
and do verily believe that the said ———— is insane, and that the dis-
ease is of a character which, in my opinion, requires that the person
shall be placed in a hospital or other establishment where the insane
are detained for care and treatment. I further certify that I am not
related by blood or marriage to the said ———— nor in any way con-
nected as medical attendant or otherwise with the hospital or other

establishment in which it is proposed to place the aforesaid ————.
and that this certificate is signed and made within one week of the
examination of the patient.

————, M. D.

Residence —————.

This section shall not apply to the cases of voluntary commitments
as provided for in section 37.

Ibid. sec. 32. 1888, art. 59, sec. 32. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 33.

32. It shall not be lawful for any physician to certify to the insanity
of any person for the purpose of committing such person to confine-
ment in an asylum or other place where the insane are kept with which
said physician may be in any manner connected or in which he may
be in anywise interested.

Ibid. sec. 33. 1888, art. 59, sec. 33. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 34.

33. All superintendents or other officers of any asylum or other
institution where the insane are kept in custody or received for treat-
ment, whether public, corporate or private, or almshouse. shall, within
ten days after the reception of such patient or person, make or cause
to be made a description of such case in a book kept exclusively for