2110 ARTICLE 59.

as the case may be, shall as herein specified pay into the State Treasury
the sum of one hundred and twenty-five ($125.00) for the board, care and
treatment of such patient, and the remaining amount required for the
board, care and treatment of such insane shall be paid from the Treasury
of the State. The expense for the care, board and treatment of all patients
in the State hospitals for the insane shall be a charge upon each county
sending such patient or patients to the State hospitals for the insane as
hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to fur-
nish to the county treasurer of each county having patients in the State
hospitals for the insane a quarterly statement giving the number of pa-
tients and the name of each patient coming from and charged to such county,
and the cost of maintenance due from each county for such patient or
patients. The superintendent of each State hospital for the insane shall
certify to the State comptroller on the first day of January, April, July
and October of each year the amount not previously certified to by him
that is due the said hospitals for the insane from the several counties hav-
ing patients chargeable thereto, and said comptroller shall pass the same-
to the credit of the several State hospitals for the insane. The State comp-
troller shall thereupon notify the county treasurer of each county so owing
of the amount thereof and charge the same to the said county, and the
Board of County Commissioners of said county shall levy a tax in said
county for said amount and pay the amount due the State into the State
treasury; and, should any county fail to levy a tax in said county for said
amount then due said State, and shall fail at the time of levying other
county taxes thereafter to levy the tax aforesaid to amount sufficient to
pay the indebtedness subsequently incurred, it shall be the duty of the
attorney general to bring in the name of the State an action against any
county in the Circuit Court of such county so failing aforesaid to enforce
the levying of said tax for the recovery of the amount due the State, as
aforesaid. Upon the failure of any county to levy such tax as aforesaid
to an amount sufficient to pay the amount then due the State, it shall be
the duty of the State comptroller to charge such delinquent county with a
penalty of interest at one per centum per month upon the amount of in-
debtedness for each month until payment thereof and penalty thereon be
paid. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer, upon the collection of
the taxes herein required to be levied, to pay into the State treasury the
amount due and owing from his county at the time and in the manner
required for the payment of State taxes collected, and the State comp-
troller and State treasurer shall upon the first day of July and January
in each year transfer the full amount received from counties under the
provisions of this Article to the account of the State hospitals for the in-
sane. Taxes levied and collected in any county for the purpose named
in this Article shall be used only to defray the expenses of the insane, and
shall not be diverted to any other purpose, nor be transferred to any other
fund for the State or county authorities. Whenever the superintendent of
any State hospital for the insane has held and treated a patient as from
one county, and the county commissioner or such county makes claim that
such patient is not a proper charge against the said county, and such