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State Comptroller to charge such delinquent county or said city with the
penalty of interest at one per cent, per month upon the amount of indebted-
ness for each month, until payment thereof and penalty thereon be paid. It
shall be the duty of the County Treasurer and the Comptroller of Baltimore
upon the collection of taxes herein required to be levied, to pay unto the
State Treasurer the amount due and owing from said county or city at the
time and in the manner required for the payment of State taxes collected,
and the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller shall, upon the first day
of July and January in each year transfer the full amount received from
the counties and the City of Baltimore under the provisions of this Article
to the account of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind. Taxes levied and
collected in any county or the City of Baltimore for the purpose named in
this Article shall be used to defray the expenses of the adult blind com-
mitted to the Maryland Workshop for the Blind, and shall not be trans-
ferred to any fund by the State, City or County authorities. Whenever
the Maryland Workshop for the Blind holds an adult blind as from one
county or the City of Baltimore, and the County Commissioners of such
county, or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore makes a claim that
such adult blind is not a proper charge against the said county or the City
of Baltimore, and such County Commissioners or the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Baltimore shall notify the State Comptroller that
it is claimed that such adult blind is not a proper charge against their
county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be; and shall claim that,
the said adult blind is a proper charge against some other county, or the
City of Baltimore, as the case may be, it shall be the duty of the County
Commissioners of each of said counties or the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, as the case may be, to file such proofs as they may have, with
the State Comptroller within thirty days from the time of such notifica-
tion, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the State Comptroller to investi-
gate the question of the residence of such adult blind, and to determine of
what county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, said adult blind
is a proper charge, and shall thereupon notify the said counties or the City
of Baltimore, as the case may be, of such determination, and shall notify
the Maryland Workshop for the Blind, and the State Comptroller, and the
counties and the City of Baltimore as aforesaid, shall thereafter treat and
regard such adult blind as of the county or city, as the case may be, accord-
ing to the determination of the State Comptroller, and if the State Comp-
troller shall find that such adult blind is not a proper charge against any
county or the City of Baltimore, in the State, such adult blind shall there-
after be regarded as a proper charge against the State at large.

1929, ch. 271, sec. 17.

17. A needy blind person shall be construed to mean any person of
either sex, of good moral character, who, by reason of lack of sight is un-
able to provide himself with the necessities of life; who has not sufficient
means of his own to maintain himself, and unless relieved as authorized by
this sub-title, would become a charge upon the public or upon those not re-
quired by law to support him; provided, however, that no person shall be