HOSPITAL—MARYLAND. 1685

and be sued in any court of this State, and may have and use a common seal,
and may, at their pleasure, alter and change the same; the said board of
managers of the Maryland hospital for the insane, as such corporation, is
hereby declared to be a public agency of this State, for the administration
of one of the charities thereof; and the hospital aforesaid, located as afore-
said, is hereby declared to be one of the means adopted by this State for
the administration of one of its public charities.

The property of the Maryland hospital for the insane 1 belongs to the state,
and the corporation is not liable to assessment for the cost of opening a public road.
Baltimore County v. Maryland Hospital for Insane, 62 Md. 127.

Object of the law in establishing the Maryland hospital. Maryland Hospital v.
Forman, 29 Md. 530.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 2. 1888, ch. 468.

3. The president and visitors of the Maryland hospital are hereby
authorized and directed to transfer by deed all the real estate and other
property belonging to said trust, which may be in their possession, to the
managers of the Maryland hospital for the insane, above provided for; and
the government of the State hospital for the insane shall be vested in the
said board of managers, five of whom shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.
See notes to sec. 2.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 3.

4. The said board of managers shall have the general direction and
control of all the property and concerns of the said hospital, and shall take
charge of its general interests, and see that its great design be carried into
effect, and everything done faithfully according to law, and the by-laws,
rules and regulations of the said hospital; but said board of managers shall
have no authority or power to mortgage or pledge any of the property, real
or personal, of said hospital.

See notes to sec. 2.

As to the lunacy commission, see art. 59, sec. 15, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, sec. 5. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 4. 1878, ch. 341.

5. They shall appoint one of their number as treasurer, who shall give
bond for the faithful performance of his trust in such sum and in such
sureties as the comptroller of the State shall approve; they shall also
appoint a superintendent who shall be a well-educated physician; and, in
addition, shall also appoint as many physicians, surgeons, apothecaries,
stewards, matrons, nurses, servants and other officers for the administration
and service of said hospital as they may deem necessary; all of whom shall
hold their appointments at the pleasure of the board of managers.
See notes to sec. 2.

An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 5.

6. They may make, ordain, alter, amend and abolish all by-laws, rules
and regulations for the administration and government of said hospital
and for the admission and discharge of persons therein or therefrom, which

1 Now Spring Grove State Hospital—act, 1912, ch. 187.