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ARTICLE 44.

ARTICLE 44.

HOSPITAL—MARYLAND.

1. Governor to appoint board of managers. 2. To be a body corporate. 3. Quorum. 4. General power of board. 5. Treasurer; bond; superintendent. Other officers. 6. May make rules. 7. Shall maintain effective inspection. 8. Shall appoint two or more students of insanity. 9. May hold property. 10. Annual report to governor. 11. Provision for accommodation of 400 pauper lunatics in said hospital. Amount to be paid by each county for care of its insane paupers; how ascertained, etc. Authority of board

of managers of said hospital to en- force these provisions. 12. Pay patients. 13. Circuit courts and criminal court of Baltimore may send pauper lunatics. 14. Annual appropriation for support of hospital. 15. Fence and enclosure to be built and maintained. Springfield State Hospital. 16-17. Board of managers; term of office and powers of board. 18. Vacancies; how filled. 19. Commitments to said hospital. 20. Report of said board.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 1.

1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall
biennially appoint three persons of undoubted character, and selected with
a view to skill and efficiency, managers of the Maryland hospital for the
insane, who shall serve without pay, and hold their offices for six years, and
until others are appointed in their stead, so that the said board shall always
consist of nine members.

As to " lunatics and insane " and the lunacy commission, see art. 59.
See notes to sec. 2.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2.. 1878, ch. 341, sec. 13.

2. The hospital for the insane, which was heretofore located and built
on its present site, at or near Catonsville, in Baltimore county, in this State,
by and under the authority of the laws of this State, and which is now under
the general direction and control of the managers of the Maryland hospital
for the insane, is hereby declared to have been built and established on its
said site by the authority and direction of this State; the board of managers
of the Maryland hospital for the insane are a body politic and corporate,
by the name of " The Board of Managers of the Maryland Hospital for
the Insane," and shall by that name have perpetual succession; may sue

As to the exemption of hospitals,' asylums, etc., from taxation, see art. 81, sec. 4.
As to the powers and duties of institutions for the care and protection of minors, see
art. 23, sec. 192. See also art. 27, secs. 704 and 705 and art. 59.