LUNATICS AND INSANE 2509

An. Code, 1924, sec. 33. 1912, sec. 32. 1904, sec. 32. 1888, sec. 32. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 33.

35. It shall not be lawful for any physician to certify to the insanity
of any person for the purpose of committing such person to confinement
in an asylum or other place where the insane are kept with which said
physician may be in any manner connected or in which he may be in
any wise interested.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 34. 1912, sec. 33. 1904, sec. 33. 1888, sec. 33. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 34.

36. All superintendents or other officers of any asylum or other insti-
tution where the insane are kept in custody or received for treatment,
whether public, corporate or private, or almshouse, shall, within ten days
after the reception of such patient or person, make or cause to be made a
description of such case in a book kept exclusively for the purpose; they
shall also make entries from time to time of the mental condition of such
patient or person so confined.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 35. 1912, sec. 34. 1904, sec. 34. 1888, sec. 34. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 36.

37. The said Board of Mental Hygiene shall be vested with all the
functions and powers of law now in force relating to the office and duties
of coroner in so far as the same may relate to cases of death occurring in
any institution in this State where insane persons are kept.
As to coroners, see art. 22.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 36. 1912, see. 35. 1904, sec. 35. 1888, sec. 35. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 36.

38. Every person confined in such places as are hereinbefore men-
tioned shall be furnished at all times with paper, envelopes, stamps, pen
and ink or pencil; shall at all times have access by correspondence with
the Board of Mental Hygiene and some one other person whom such luna-
tic may designate every month under seal, which communication shall be
forwarded by the officer, superintendent or keeper who may be in charge
of such person or place; and any such officer, superintendent or keeper
who shall fail to forward such communication shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine or imprison-
ment, in the judgment of the court before which such case may be tried.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 37. 1912, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 36. 1888, sec. 36. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 37.

39. The detention of any person in any one of the said places or re-
ceptacles for the insane without compliance with these regulations shall
be a misdemeanor on the part of such person so violating such regulations
and such person shall also be liable for damages.
Cited but not construed in Miller v. West, 165 Md. 247.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 38. 1912, sec. 37. 1904, sec. 37. 1888, sec. 37. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 38.
1910, ch. 715, sec. 37 (p. 189). 1916, ch. 566, sec. 37.

40. The medical superintendent or chief officer of any institution, hos-
pital, home or retreat for the insane may receive and detain therein for pur-
pose of care and treatment any person who is desirous of submitting himself
for treatment and makes application therefor in writing, at the expense
of such person, or the expense of his relatives or friends, or of the County
in which such person resides upon the consent of the County Commis-
sioners thereof, or of the City of Baltimore, if such person resides therein,
upon the consent of the Department of Welfare. No such person shall