2118 ARTICLE 59.
appointment, until their successors shall have duly qualified, and shall
appoint from time to time during the existence of said institution, as
said terms expire, three persons, residents as aforesaid, for a full term
of six years, so that the board of managers shall be divided into three
classes, one-third of whom shall go out of office every two years; and the
Governor shall have power, in the case of any vacancy occurring in any
of said classes from death, resignation, removal from State, failure to
qualify within thirty days after the first day of May, following their
appointment, or from any cause whatever, to appoint a person or persons
to fill such vacancy or vacancies for the balance of the term of said class.
An. Code, sec. 65. 1912, ch. 187, sec. 12.
69. The board of managers of the " Eastern Shore State Hospital,"
as named in section 67, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to
purchase a tract or tracts of land on the Eastern Shore of the State of
Maryland to comply with the provisions and restrictions contained in
section 66; and upon which tract or tracts the said board of managers of
the "Eastern Shore State Hospital" shall immediately proceed to the
erection, construction and equipment of suitable buildings to care for such
white insane of the State as may be duly committed or sent to the said
hospital, from time to time, in accordance with the general provisions of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, relative to the care and
treatment of the insane of the State.
Liquor and Drugs.
An. Code, sec. 67. 1916, ch. 566, sec. 67.
70. Any person or persons who shall knowingly sell, give, send, pro-
cure, or purchase any spirituous or intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs
to or for any inmate, patient, attendant or employee of any State hospital
for the insane, or of the Rosewood State Training School, or of any
private institution for the insane licensed by the Board of Mental Hygiene,
unless with the permission and consent of the superintendent or chief
medical officer of such hospital or institution, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each offense, be fined
not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00 or imprisoned for not less
than ten days nor more than sixty days, or both; and the Justices of the
Peace of the respective Counties of the State shall have concurrent juris-
diction over such offense with the Circuit Court for their respective Coun-
ties, and the Justices of the Peace selected to sit at the respective station-
houses in the City of Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction over
such offenses with the Criminal Court of Baltimore City.1
1 Sec. 7 of act of 1916, ch. 566, provides for repeal of all laws and parts of laws incon-
sistent with said act to extent of such inconsistency.
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