LUNATICS AND INSANE. 2105

man or policemen, whose duty it shall be, under the orders of said superin-
tendent on manager or keeper, to arrest and return to such asylum or
other institution for the treatment of the insane any insane person who
may escape therefrom.

An. Code, sec. 31. 1904, sec. 31. 1888, sec. 31. 1886, ch. 487, see. 32. 1900, ch. 603.

32. No person shall be committed to or confined as a patient in any
institution, public, corporate or private, or almshouse or other place for
the care and custody of the insane or idiotic except upon the written cer-
tificates of two qualified physicians of the State of Maryland made within
one week after separate examination by them of said alleged lunatic and
setting forth the insanity or idiocy of such person and the reason for such
opinion. No certificate shall be of force which shall be presented for the
commitment of any patient more than thirty days after date of examina-
tion. The form of physician's certificate shall be substantially as follows:

State of Maryland, county or city of ————. Dated ————, I, a
resident of the county or city of ————, being a graduate of ————
Medical College and having practised as a physician five years, do hereby
certify that on this ———— day of ———— I have personally examined
————, age ————, (sex) ————, ———— (social state), and do verily
believe that the said ———— is insane, and that the disease is of a charac-
ter which, in my opinion, requires that the person shall be placed in a
hospital or other establishment where the insane are detained for care
and treatment. I further certify that I am not related by blood or mar-
riage to the said ————— nor in any way connected as medical attendant
or otherwise with the hospital or other establishment in which it is pro-
posed to place the aforesaid ——————, and that this certificate is signed
and made within one week of the examination of the patient.

————, M. D.

Residence ————.

This section shall not apply to the cases of voluntary commitments as
provided for in section 38.

An. Code, sec. 32. 1904, sec. 32, 1888, sec. 32. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 33.

33. It shall not be lawful for any physician to certify to the insanity
of any person for the purpose of committing such person to confinement
in an asylum or other place where the insane are kept with which said
physician may be in any manner connected or in which he may be in
anywise interested.

An. Code, sec. 33. 1904, sec. 33. 1888, sec. 33. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 34.

34. All superintendents or other officers of any asylum or other insti-
tution where the insane are kept in custody or received for treatment,
whether public, corporate or private, or almshouse, shall, within ten days
after the reception of such patient or person, make or cause to be made a
description of such case in a book kept exclusively for the purpose; they
shall also make entries from time to time of the mental condition of such
patient or person so confined.