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deemed necessary to provide for their compensation, to prescribe rules for
the government thereof, to enter into agreements for the reception of
inmates thereof, and fix and establish from time to time rates at which
inmates not dependent on the County shall be received, to provide for the
purchase of all supplies and furniture for such buildings, additions and
repairs as may be in their judgment necessary from time to time; they
shall meet at and inspect said asylum at least once in each month, shall
audit the books of said asylum monthly, and upon their approval of the
bills and accounts against said institution; the same shall be paid by the
draft of the Clerk of the Commissioners, countersigned by the President
cf the Board on the Treasurer of Allegany County.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 172. 1880, ch. 267.

291. After the erection of said asylum, all persons who have been here-
tofore determined in the Circuit Court for Allegany County to be insane
paupers, and who at the time said asylum is ready for use shall be in-
mates of other institutions at the expense of said county, shall be removed
to said asylum; and thereafter, whenever any person shall be found to
be an insane pauper, and dependent on said county, by inquisition in the
Circuit Court thereof, said court shall commit said person to said asylum,
and none other, unless the County Commissioners shall consent to his
being sent to some other institution.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 173. 1880, ch. 267.

292. The County Commissioners are hereby authorized to levy such
sum annually upon the taxable property in said county, as may be neces-
sary to meet the running expenses of said asylum over and above its reve-
nues, if any such deficiency be found to exist.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1, sec. 174. 1884, ch. 73. 1888, ch. 503.

293. They shall levy annually, on the taxable property in said county,
a sum of money sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds authorized to
be issued for the "insane asylum" by the Acts of 1880, Chapter 267, and
1884, Chapter 73, and 1888, Chapter 503, and shall levy on the taxable
property of said county a sum of money sufficient to pay the principal
of said bonds when and as they mature; and the bonds issued under the
provisions of this section shall not be liable to be taxed for county or
municipal purposes.

1914, ch. 778, sec. 1.

294. It shall be the duty of County Commissioners to keep minute
and accurate account of all monies received and disbursed for the support
and maintenance of dependent insane persons of Maryland in their charge
at Sylvan Retreat, and at the end of the years 1914 and 1915 they shall
prepare a complete statement thereof, setting forth in detail all monies
received and disbursed therefor, which shall be submitted to the Secre-
tary of the Lunacy Commission, and upon his approval of the same and