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tions or criticisms which, in their opinion, are deemed for the best inter-
ests of the patients. The members of the board of visitors shall reside in
the county in which the institution under their supervision is located.
The members of the board of visitors shall receive no compensation for
their services. The Board of Mental Hygiene may change the personnel
or membership of said board of visitors at its pleasure.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 45. 1912, sec. 44. 1910, ch. 715, sec. 38F (p. 192). 1920, ch. 735, sec. 44.

47. Whenever the Board of Correction ¹ may deem it necessary they
shall have full power to summon the Board of Mental Hygiene to examine
and pass upon the mental condition of the convicts confined in the Peni-
tentiary or House of Correction and if the convict or convicts so examined
be adjudged insane or feeble-minded by said Board, or a majority thereof,
and the removal of such convict or convicts be deemed advisable, said Board
shall order said Board of Correction to remove such insane or feeble-minded
convict or convicts to some insane asylum within the State to be designated
in such order of removal. All the expense incurred in the removal of such
insane or feeble-minded convict or convicts shall be borne by said Board
of Correction and the maintenance in such asylum of such insane or feeble-
minded convict or convicts shall be met in the manner provided in this
Article for other insane, lunatic or feeble-minded persons. If at any time
after being removed to such asylum any such convict or convicts shall,
in the opinion of said Board of Mental Hygiene recover his reason before
the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced to the Penitentiary
or House of Correction, he shall be returned thereto at the expense of
such asylum, there to be kept until such term shall expire, or until other-
wise discharged in due course of law. If any of such convicts shall, in
the opinion of said Board of Mental Hygiene be still insane, lunatic or
feeble-minded at the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced to
the Penitentiary or House of Correction, he shall remain in such asylum
until in the opinion of said Board he shall have recovered his reason.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 46. 1912, sec. 44A. 1914, ch. 401.

48. The Board of Mental Hygiene is hereby directed immediately
after April 10, 1914, to remove all criminal insane convicts now confined
or who may hereafter be confined in the Maryland Penitentiary and the
House of Correction, and to place the same in such State hospitals as said
Board may deem proper.
See sec. 47 and art. 27, sec. 798.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 47. 1912, sec. 45. 1910, ch. 715, sec. 38G. (p. 192). 1920, ch. 351.

1937, ch. 65, sec. 47.

49. For each patient in any State hospital for the insane, and in Rose-
wood State Training School from Baltimore City or from any one of
the counties of the State the said city or county, as the case may be, shall
as herein specified pay into the State Treasury the sum of one hundred
and twenty-five dollars ($125.00) for the board, care and treatment of
such patient, and the remaining amount required for the board, care and
treatment of such insane shall be paid from the Treasury of the State.
The expense for the care, board and treatment of, all patients in the State
hospitals for the insane and in Rosewood State Training School shall be

¹ Formerly Board of Welfare—see Art. 27, sec. 743.