HOSPITAL—MARYLAND. 1687

the several counties and the city of Baltimore, according to the population
as ascertained by the preceding census. The sum of money to be paid by
the several counties, respectively, for the support and care of their insane
paupers, shall be annually estimated and determined by the board of
managers of said hospital, who shall report to the county commissioners of
each county the amount so due by it, not later than the tenth day of January
in each year, and such estimate shall be upon the basis of the number of
patients in said hospital from said county of the first day of each year, at
the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per capita per annum; and the
money so ascertained to be due by each county, the county commissioners of
said county are hereby authorized and required to levy annually upon the
assessable property of said county, to be collected in the same manner as
other taxes now or shall hereafter be collected; and the treasurer of said
county, and if there be no treasurer, the county commissioners of said
county, is and are hereby authorized and directed to pay said sum of money
to the comptroller of the State in two equal instalments, one-half on the
thirty-first day of December, and the other half on the thirtieth day of
September in each year; and said comptroller shall, immediately upon
the receipt of any of said instalments, pay over the same to the board of
managers of said hospital. The expenses of any patients in said hospital
from any county in excess of its quota, as herein provided, shall be ascer-
tained, levied and paid for in like manner, as provided for its quota. The
board of managers of said hospital are hereby empowered and authorized
to enforce the provisions of this section by writs of mandamus, or to collect
the moneys so ascertained by them to be due and payable in any other way
authorized by law, and may bring suit upon the bond of the treasurer of
any county, and if there be no treasurer, may bring suit against the county
commissioners of said county, in case the moneys so due by said county
shall have been paid to said treasurer or county commissioners, and he or
they, as the case may be, shall not have forwarded it to the comptroller as
required herein.

See notes to sec. 2.

An. Code, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, sec. 12. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 10.

12. They may receive into the hospital as pay patients insane persons,
other than the pauper lunatics referred to in the preceding section, to a
number not exceeding seventy-five at any one time.
See notes to sec. 2.

An. Code, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 13. 1888, sec. 13. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 11.

13. The circuit courts for the several counties, and the criminal court
of Baltimore, in accordance with the provisions of this code, are hereby
authorized to send, from time to time, to the said hospital, pauper lunatics
of this State, to the number to which the respective counties and city of
Baltimore shall respectively be entitled under section 11.
See notes to sec. 2.