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ART. LIX] PAUPERS. 443
In case the property or estate of any person committed to any of the
said institutions as aforesaid is sufficient for his or her maintenance or
support, in whole or in part, while in such institution, then the County
Commissioners or the Supervisors of City Charities, as the case may
be, shall have power to institute and prosecute all proper proceedings
to subject the same thereto, and all payments made as a result of such
proceedings shall be accounted for and paid as hereinbefore provided.
Upon the death of any person committed to any of the said institu-
tions as aforesaid, the County Commissioners or the Supervisors of
City Charities, as the case may be, shall be entitled to make claim
against the estate of any such person for his or her maintenance and
support while in. such institution, or for the balance due therefor if
part has been paid. Such claim shall constitute a preferred claim
against the estate of any such person, and all claims arising hereunder
against the relatives and other persons legally chargeable with the
maintenance and support of such inmates, shall constitute preferred
claims. All such claims may be waived by the County Commissioners
or Supervisors of City Charities, as the case may be, in their discretion,
if in their judgment the enforcement of the same will result in hard-
ship to others dependent upon those against whom such claims exist
All payments received as a result of the enforcement of such claims
shall be accounted for and paid as hereinbefore provided.
1916, ch. 566, sec. 3B.
3B. The County Commissioners or the Supervisors of City Char-
ities, as the case may be, shall have full power and authority, in the
case of all persons heretofore committed to any institution under the
provisions of the preceding Sections of this Article and still confined
therein, to exercise all of the powers conferred upon them, by Section
3A of this Article with respect to persons hereafter to be so committed,
to the end that payment for the future maintenance and support of such
persons while in such institutions may be required, made, collected,
and accounted for as in the case of persons hereafter to be committed,
under the provisions of said Section 3A.
Insanity as a Defense in Criminal Cases.
1004, art. 59, sec. 4. 1888, art. 59, sec. 4. 1860, art. 58, sec. 4. 1S26. ch. 197,
sec. 1. 1916, ch. 690.
4. When any person indicted for a crime, offense or misdemeanor
shall allege insanity or lunacy in his or her defense, the jury impaneled
to try such person shall find by their verdict whether such person was
at the time of the commission of the alleged offense or still is insane,
lunatic or otherwise. The judge of the court in which such indictment
is pending shall have full power and authority at any time before trial
to order an examination of the mental condition of such person by the
lunacy commission, which examination shall be made in the same man-
ner and under the same conditions as examinations of convicts are now
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