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tion under their supervision. The board shall send a written report of
such visits monthly to the Board of Mental Hygiene. The powers of the
board shall be limited to inspecting the institution under their immediate
supervision, recommending to the Board of Mental Hygiene any sugges-
tions or criticisms which, in their opinion, are deemed for the best inter-
ests of the patients. The members of the board of visitors shall reside in
the county in which the institution under their supervision is located.
The members of the board of visitors shall receive no compensation for
their services. The Board of Mental Hygiene may change the personnel
or membership of said board of visitors at its pleasure.

An. Code, sec. 44. 1910, ch. 715, sec. 38F (p. 192). 1920, ch. 735, sec. 44.

45. Whenever the Board of Welfare1 may deem it necessary they shall
have full power to summon the Board of Mental Hygiene to examine and
pass upon the mental condition of the convicts confined in the Peni-
tentiary or House of Correction and if the convict or convicts so examined
be adjudged insane or feeble-minded by said Board, or a majority thereof,
and the removal of such convict or convicts be deemed advisable, said Board
shall order said Board of Welfare to remove such insane or feeble-minded
convict or convicts to some insane asylum within the State to be designated
in such order of removal. All the expense incurred in the removal of such
insane or feeble-minded convict or convicts shall be borne by said Board
of Welfare and the maintenance in such asylum of such insane or feeble-
minded convict or convicts shall be met in the manner provided in this
Article for other insane, lunatic or feeble-minded persons. If at any time
after being removed to such asylum any such convict or convicts shall,
in the opinion of said Board of Mental Hygiene recover his reason before
the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced to the Penitentiary
or House of Correction, he shall be returned thereto at the expense of
such asylum, there to be kept until such term shall expire, or until other-
wise discharged in due course of law. If any of such convicts shall, in
the opinion of said Board of Mental Hygiene be still insane, lunatic or
feeble-minded at the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced to
the Penitentiary or House of Correction, he shall remain in such asylum
until in the opinion of said Board he shall have recovered his reason.

An. Code, sec, 44A. 1914, ch. 401.

46. The Board of Mental Hygiene is hereby directed immediately
after April 10, 1914, to remove all criminal insane convicts now confined
or who may hereafter be confined in the Maryland Penitentiary and the
House of Correction, and to place the same in such State hospitals as said
Board may deem proper.

See art. 27, secs. 315 and 711.

An. Code, sec. 45. 1910, ch. 715, sec. 38G. (p. 192). 1920, ch. 351.

47. For each patient in any State hospital for the insane from Balti-
more City or in any one of the counties of the State the said city or county,

1 Formerly State Board of Prison Control.