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said ————, he intending to reside therein, to use and employ said build-
ing and premises' for the reception of lunatics (male and female), who
shall be known as private patients. Given under our hands this ————
day of ————, 19——.

Board of Mental Hygiene.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 30. 1912, see. 29. 1904, sec. 29. 1888, sec. 29. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 30.

32. Any person violating this article by failing to take out a license
as required herein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine or imprisonment, in the dis-
cretion of the court before which such case may be tried.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 30. 1904, sec. 30. 1888, sec. 30. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 31.

33. The board of managers or superintendent of any institution, pub-
lic, corporate or private, or almshouse, which may be duly authorized to
hold in custody any insane person in accordance with law, may appoint
one or more of the attendants or other employes of such places as police-
man or policemen, whose duty it shall be, under the orders of said superin-
tendent or manager or keeper, to arrest and return to such asylum or
other institution for the treatment of the insane any insane person who
may escape therefrom.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 32. 1912, sec. 31. 1904, sec. 31. 1888, sec. 31. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 32.

1900, ch. 603.

34. No person shall be committed to or confined as a patient in any
institution, public, corporate or private, or almshouse or other place for
the care and custody of the insane or idiotic except upon the written cer-
tificates of two qualified physicians of the State of Maryland made within
one week after separate examination by them of said alleged lunatic and
setting forth the insanity or idiocy of such person and the reason for such
opinion. No certificate shall be of force which shall be presented for the
commitment of any patient more than thirty days after date of examina-
tion. The form of physician's certificate shall be substantially as follows:

State of Maryland, county or city of ————. Dated ————, I, a
resident of the county or city of ————, being a graduate of ————
Medical College and having practised as a physician five years, do hereby
certify that on this ———— day of ———— I have personally examined
————, age ————, (sex) ————, ——— (social state), and do verily
believe that the said ———— is insane, and that the disease is of a charac-
ter which, in my opinion, requires that the person shall be placed in a
hospital or other establishment where the insane are detained for care
and treatment. I further certify that I am not related by blood or mar-
riage to the said ———— nor in any way connected as medical attendant
or otherwise with the hospital or other establishment in which it is pro-
posed to place the aforesaid ————, and that this certificate is signed
and made within one week of the examination of the patient.

————, M. D.

Residence ————.

This section shall not apply to the cases of voluntary commitments as
provided for in section 40.

Cited but not construed in Miller v. West, 165 Md. 247; Wojtczuk v. Oleksik, 168
Md. 527.