LUNATICS AND INSANE 2513

a charge upon each county sending such patient or patients to the State
hospitals for the insane and in Rosewood State Training School as here-
inafter provided. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to furnish to
the county treasurer of each county having patients in the State hospitals
for the insane and in Rosewood State Training School a quarterly state-
ment giving the number of patients and the name of each patient coming
from and charged to such county, and the cost of maintenance due from
each county for such patient or patients. The superintendent of each
State hospital for the insane and Rosewood State Training School shall
certify to the State Comptroller on the first day of January, April, July
and October of each year the amount not previously certified to by him that
is due the said hospitals for the insane and Rosewood State Training School
from the several counties having patients chargeable thereto. The State
Comptroller shall thereupon notify the County Treasurer of each county
so owing of the amount thereof and charge the same to the said county,
and the Board of County Commissioners of said county shall levy a tax
in said county for said amount and pay the amount due the State into the
State Treasury; and, should any county fail to levy a tax in said county for
said amount then due said State, and shall fail at the time of levying
other county taxes thereafter to levy the tax aforesaid to amount sufficient
to pay the indebtedness subsequently incurred, it shall be the duty of the
attorney general to bring in the name of the State an action against any
county in the Circuit Court of such county so failing aforesaid to enforce
the levying of said tax for the recovery of the amount due the State, as
aforesaid. Upon the failure of any county to levy such tax as aforesaid to
an amount sufficient to pay the amount then due the State, it shall be the
duty of the State Comptroller to charge such delinquent county with a
penalty of interest at one per centum per month upon the amount of in-
debtedness for each month until payment thereof and penalty thereon be
paid. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer, upon the collection
of the taxes herein required to be levied, to pay into the State Treasury
the amount due and owing from his county at the time and in the man-
ner required for the payment of State taxes collected. Whenever the
superintendent of any State hospital for the insane and Rosewood State
Training School has held and treated a patient as from one county, and
the County Commissioners of such county makes claim that such patient is
not a proper charge against the said county, and such County Commis-
sioners shall notify the State Comptroller that it is claimed by them that
such patient is not a proper charge against their county, and shall claim
that the said patient is a proper charge against some other county, it shall
be the duty of the County Commissioners of each of said counties to file
such proofs as they may have with the State Comptroller within thirty days
from the time of such notification and thereupon it shall be the duty of the
State Comptroller to investigate the question of the residence of such
patient and to determine of what county said patient is a proper charge,
and shall thereupon notify each of said counties of such determination,
and shall notify the superintendent of the State hospitals for the insane
or Rosewood State Training School, and the counties aforesaid shall
thereafter treat and regard such patient as of the county according to
the determination of the State Comptroller, and if the State Comp-
troller shall find that such patient is not a proper charge against any
county of the State, such patient shall thereafter be regarded as a proper