734 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

Land and Buildings.

59.*+

1912, ch. 187, sec. 8.

61. The respective boards of managers of the Springfield State
Hospital, at Sykesville; the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, at
Catonsville, to be hereafter styled "Spring Grove State Hospital"; the
Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble-Minded, at Owings
Mills, to be hereafter styled "Eosewood State Training School"; the
Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland, at Crownsville, to be here-
after styled "Crownsville State Hospital," and the board of managers,
as hereinafter provided, for the "Eastern Shore State Hospital," shall
proceed to purchase lands as herein provided and shall cause to be
prepared plans for such new buildings as they may deem necessary for
the accommodation and treatment of the insane persons now in the
various almshouses and other public institutions of the several counties
of the State and Baltimore City, which said plans and specifications
shall be submitted to the lunacy commission and after having been
approved by said commission and duly accepted and approved by the
respective boards of managers of the several institutions herein men-
tioned, it shall become the duty of the said respective boards to forth-
with enter upon the erection, construction and equipment of said build-
ings, the contract for which shall be awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder, after proper advertisement.

Eastern Shore State Hospital.

1912, ch. 187, sec. 9.

62.++ There shall be established on the Eastern Shore, in the State
of Maryland, an institution for the detention and care of such white
insane persons of the State as may be duly committed or sent to said
institution or hospital, which shall be called the "Eastern Shore State
Hospital" and which shall be under the control of the board of man-
agers as hereinafter provided.

1912, ch. 187, sec. 10.

63. The said Board of managers of the "Eastern Shore State Hos-
pital" shall consist of the Governor, ex officio, State Treasurer, Comp-
troller of the Treasury, for the time being, and nine other persons, one
from each county of the Eastern Shore, and the board so created shall

*The act of 1912, chapter 441, appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars for
the erection of a hospital in Frostburg to be known as the Miners' Hospital,
provided for directors and the operation and maintenance thereof.

+By the act of 1912. chapter 417, four thousand dollars was appropriated for
the purhase of land adjoining the Springfield State Hospital, and the purchase
of said land was approved as of the date of payment and acceptance of deed.

++ "The State Omnibus Loan of 1914" was authorized by the act of 1914, chapter
791, and out of the proceeds $100,000 was apportioned to the Eastern Shore State
Hospital. See article 31, section 45, et seq. and footnote.