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sician the Board of Welfare may select, and all such applicants shall furnish
such other evidence affecting their application for retirement as the Board
of Welfare may require.

1924, ch. 408, sec. 662.

710. It shall he the duty of the Director of Welfare not later than the
first day of December, 1926, and biennially thereafter, to certify to the
Governor of the State a full record of all persons retired, under the pro-
visions of this sub-title, whose retirements have not been revoked by the
Governor, and the rate of pay respectively awarded them, and also an esti-
mate of the sum required for future retirements in accordance with the
provisions of this sub-title until the next budget appropriation becomes
operative, and the items required to meet the requirements already made,
together with such further sum as the Governor may deem necessary to
meet said future retirements, shall be included in the budget submitted by
the Governor to the General Assembly. Payments to retired employees
under the provisions of this sub-title shall be paid as other salaries are paid,
but the Board of Welfare shall not make retirements that will require the
expenditures of any money in excess of the appropriation duly authorized
for that purpose.

Convicts Becoming Insane.

An. Code, sec. 676. 1912, ch. 496.

711.1 Whenever any convict confined in any jail in any city or county
in this State shall become insane or lunatic, the warden of such jail, or any
person on behalf of such convict, may file a petition, either during the ses-
sion or recess of the Court, in the Circuit Court having jurisdiction in the
city or county, where the jail in which such convict is confined, is sitiiated,
alleging that the said convict hath become insane or a lunatic, and still is
so at the time of the filing of the petition, and setting forth the misdemeanor
or crime of which such insane person is convict and the date upon which his
term of imprisonment will expire; and the said Court, if the petition be
filed during a session thereof, shall cause a jury of twelve to be forthwith
empanelled, who shall be drawn from the jurors attending the sessions of
the Court, and shall charge said jury to inquire whether such convict hath
become insane or a lunatic and is still so; and any judge of said Court, if
the petition be filed during recess of the Court, shall pass an order on said
petition, as promptly as may be, requiring the sheriff of the city or county
where said convict is confined, forthwith to summon a jury of twelve good
and lawful men to attend before such judge, at the time and place named
in the order, who shall be empanelled and charged by the said judge to
inquire whether such convict hath become insane or a lunatic and still is so;
and if the jury so as aforesaid empanelled and charged by the Court, or
the jury empanelled and charged by any judge thereof in recess of Court,
shall find that such convict hath become insane or a lunatic, and still is so

1 Apparently it was not the intention of act of 1916, ch. 556, to repeal sec. 711, although
the matter is not entirely clear.