2092 ARTICLE 59.

Baltimore, before whom any such alleged lunatic or insane person is
brought for commitment under this section, if not satisfied that such
person is lunatic or insane, as defined in section 3, to notify the state's
attorney of said county or city, and he shall immediately thereupon
bring the said question before the circuit court for the said county or the
criminal court of Baltimore for determination in accordance with the
provisions of this section. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent
the friends or relatives of such lunatic or insane person from confining him
or her or providing for his or her comfort.

Cited but not construed in Baltimore v. Keeley Institute, 81 Md. 114.

As to inebriates or habitual drunkards, see art. 16, sec. 52.

As to hospitals for the insane, see also art. 44. See notes to sec. 6 (this art.).

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1817, ch. 78. 1904, ch. 421. 1908, ch. 435.

2. From and after the first day of January, 1911, the State of Mary-
land shall be charged with the maintenance, care, control and treatment of
all dependent insane persons who are at that time residents of the State
of Maryland, and as soon as practicable after the said first day of January,
1911, the Board of Mental Hygiene shall transfer from the several county
almshouses and county and city asylums to one of the state hospitals, for
the insane such dependent insane persons who are residents of the State of
Maryland as in the judgment of the said board should be so removed;
and all such dependent insane persons after their removal to one of
the state hospitals for the insane shall be maintained therein at the
expense of the State. In furtherance of the purposes of this section a
commission shall be appointed by the governor of which he shall be .a
member ex officio, consisting of the lunacy commission, who shall report to
the Legislature on or before the fifteenth day of January, 1910, such
amendments to the present law regulating the care and treatment of the
insane and such other measures, including plans for the enlargement of
the present state hospitals or the creation of other state hospitals, as may
to such commission seem necessary.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1824, ch. 49. 1900, ch. 603. 1916, ch. 566, sec. 3.

3. No person shall be deemed entitled to the benefit of the preceding
Sections who shall possess or be entitled to receive sufficient income for
bis or. her maintenance and support as a patient in any home, retreat or
hospital for the insane of this State, or who has relatives or others legally
chargeable with his or her support, or who are able to pay for the main-
tenance and support of the said person as a patient at any home, retreat
or hospital for the insane of this State. The County Commissioners of
any County or the Supervisors of City Charities of the Department of
Charities and Corrections of the City of Baltimore may consent in writing
to the commitment in accordance with the provisions of Section 1, of any
indigent insane person from the respective Counties or the city aforesaid
not able to pay the whole cost of his or her maintenance, but who may be
able to pay for part thereof, as a reimbursing patient, and designate the
rate per week which shall be reimbursed to the County or City of Baltimore
from which said patient is committed.