2098 ARTICLE 59.

Duties of Trustees of the Poor.

An. Code, see. 10. 1904, sec. 10. 1888, sec. 10. 1826, ch. 197, sec. 4.

13. The trustees of the poor of the several counties and the city of
Baltimore shall receive all persons committed to their respective alms-
houses under the preceding sections and shall provide for their accommo-
dation and support, and the expenses thereof shall be levied upon the coun-
ties and the said city respectively.

Cited but not construed in Devilbiss v. Bennett, 70 Md. 556.

An. Code, sec. 11. 1904, sec. 11. 1888, sec. 11. 1826, ch. 197, sec. 5.

14. Nothing contained in this article shall affect the powers of the
courts of equity further than to require that the estate of such lunatic or
insane person, if he hath any, shall be chargeable with the expenses of his
commitment and confinement.

Cited but not construed in Devilbiss v. Bennett, 70 Md. 556.

Board of Mental Hygiene.

An. Code, sec. 12. 1904, secs. 12 & 15. 1888, sec. 12. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 13.
1922, ch. 29, sec. 4 (p. 61). 1924, ch. 283, sec. 4.

15. There shall be a Board of Mental Hygiene, which shall have
supervision over all institutions, public, corporate or private in which
insane persons are detained.

Said Board of Mental Hygiene shall consist of the Commissioner of
Mental Hygiene, who shall serve as the Chairman of the Board, and six
associate members. Three at least of said Board shall be appointed from
the City of Baltimore, four at least of said Board shall be physicians and
graduates of some legally authorized medical college, and must also have
been in the actual practice of their profession at least five years consecu-
tively just preceding their appointment; one of said physicians so chosen
shall have had at least five years experience in the treatment of the insane;
and one at least of said Board shall be a woman. All of the associate mem-
bers shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of
the Senate, except that the associate members first appointed under this
Act shall be appointed by the Governor alone and their terms of office
shall begin on January 1, 1923. The associate members of said Board
shall hold office for six years, provided that those first appointed under
this Act shall be so classed by the Governor that the terms of office of two
shall expire on the first Monday of May, 1924, the terms of office of two
on the first Monday of May, 1926, and the terms of office of two on the
first Monday of May, 1928, and thereafter in each case the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint two members in the
place of the two whose terms shall so expire. All vacancies shall be filled
by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate.

The Commissioner of Mental Hygiene shall be a qualified physician
who at the time of his appointment has had at least five years' actual
experience in the treatment of mental diseases. He shall be appointed as
follows: On the taking effect of this Act, the associate members of the