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ART. LIX] INSANITY AS A DEFENSE IN CRIMINAL CASES. 445
Whenever the commission is summoned by a court to inquire into
the sanity of any person, under Sections 4 and 6 of this Article, the
court shall allow a reasonable fee for services to each of the members
of the commission who is a physician, including the Secretary, and who
has helped to make such examination; and, in addition, shall allow a
sum of money sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the commis-
sion in making the examination, the sum or sums so allowed to be taxed
as part of the costs of the case and to be paid to the commission by the
county or city, as the case may be.
If the commission is summoned at the instance of the accused person
under Section 4, the court may, in its discretion, require such accused
person, or his representatives, to furnish a bond conditioned to reim-
burse the county or city, as the case may be, for the fees and expenses
paid to the commission. If the commission is summoned under the pro-
visions of either Section 4 or 6, and the accused person is found to be
insane, then the estate of such insane person shall be liable to the county
or city, as the case may be, for the amount of fees and expenses paid
to the commission. Any fees paid to the secretary of the commission
under this section shall be in addition to the salary prescribed by Sec-
tion 17 hereof.
1904, art. 59, sec. 37. 1888. art. 59, sec. 37. 1SS6. ch. 487, sec. 38 1910. ch. 715.
sec. 37 (p. 189). 1916. ch. 566, sec. 37.
37. The medical superintendent or chief officer of any institution,
hospital, home or retreat for the insane may receive and detain therein
for purpose of care and treatment any person who is desirous of sub-
mitting himself for treatment and makes application therefor in writ-
ing, at the expense of such person, or the expense of his relatives or
friends, or of the County in which such person resides upon the consent
of the County Commissioners thereof, or of the City of Baltimore, if
such person resides therein, upon the consent of the Supervisors of
City Charities. No such person shall be detained for more than three
days after having given notice of his or her desire and intention to
leave such institution unless such person shall in the meantime have
been legally committed upon and after due notice to him or her on the
request of his or her relatives or friends, in accordance with Section
31 of this article regulating the commitment and detention of the
insane in hospitals and asylums; nor shall any person be received or
detained as a voluntary patient whose mental condition is such, or
becomes such, that such person cannot comprehend the act of voluntary
commitment, or be able to request his or her discharge, or give contin-
uous assent to detention. Every such voluntary patient so admitted
shall be reported to the Lunacy Commission as provided in cases legally
committed, and shall be further reported to the Lunacy Commission
with a statement of the mental condition of said person at the end of
each three months of said patient's residence in the institution to which
he or she has requested admission, and when discharged therefrom, a
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