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Rosewood State Training School. 49-51. Terms and conditions upon which inmates received; duty of visitors. 52. Educational and custodial depart- ments. 53. Parole of inmates. 54. Care and treatment of epileptic chil- dren. 55. Annual appropriation. 56. Visitors to report to Board of Mental Hygiene as to wards of state. 57. Board of Mental Hygiene to examine inmates and report to court. 58. Court to examine report. 59. Gifts, legacies, etc., sanctioned.

Crownsville State Hospital. 60. Hospital established; proviso. 61. Board of managers. By-laws. Reports. 62. Expiration of term of office of board; vacancies. 63. Land to be purchased; buildings con- structed. 64. Expenses. 65. Quorum of board of managers. Eastern Shore State Hospital. 66-69. Board of managers; vacancies; land and buildings. Liquor and Drugs. 70. Furnishing to patients; penalty.

Lunatic or Insane Paupers.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1834, ch. 194. 1900, ch. 603.
1. When any person is alleged to be a lunatic or insane and without
sufficient means to pay for his or her maintenance at an asylum, and
who has no relative or relatives or others legally chargeable with his or her
support, the county commissioners of the county in which such person may
reside, or the supervisors of city charities of the department of charities
and corrections of the city of Baltimore (if such person resides in the
city of Baltimore), shall, upon the written certificates of two qualified
physicians made in accordance with the provisions of section 32, cause such
person to be sent to the almshouse of the county or city to which he or she
belongs, or to a hospital or some other place better suited to his or her
condition, there to be confined at the expense of the county or city until
he or she shall have recovered and be discharged in due course of law;
but if demanded by the alleged lunatic or insane person or any of his or
her relatives or friends, or if requested by the board of county commis-
sioners of the county in which the alleged lunatic or insane person resides,
or by the supervisors of the city charities of the department of charities and
corrections of the city of Baltimore, if said person resides therein, the
circuit court for the county in which such person may reside, or the
criminal court of Baltimore, (if such person resides in the city of Balti-
more) shall cause a jury of twelve good and lawful men to be empanelled
forthwith and shall charge the said jury to inquire whether such person is
insane or lunatic, and if found so it shall be the duty of the county com-
missioners or the supervisors of city charities of the department of charities
and corrections of Baltimore city to cause such person to be sent to the
almshouse of the county or city to which he or she belongs, or to a hospital,
or to some other place better suited to his or her condition, there to be
confined at the expense of the county or city, until he or she shall have
recovered and be discharged in due course of law. It shall be the duty
of any board of county commissioners or the supervisors of the city
charities of the department of charities and corrections of the city of