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control at said institution, until such time as in the judgment of said
visitors, or a majority of them, the welfare of such persons and the public
interest shall justify or call for their release or discharge therefrom, unless
otherwise discharged by due process of law.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 50. 1912, sec. 46A. 1916, ch. 566, sec. 46A.

52. The Orphans' Court or County Commissioners of the City or
County in which idiotic, imbecile or feeble-minded persons may reside who
shall hereafter be received into the Rosewood State Training School under
the provisions of Section 51 of this Article, shall have full power and
authority and it shall be their duty to exercise, with respect to such per-
sons, all the powers conferred and the duties imposed upon the County
Commissioners and the Department of Welfare by Section 4 of this Article,
to the end that payment for the maintenance and support of such idiotic,
imbecile or feeble-minded persons, while in said Rosewood State Train-
ing School, may be required, made, collected, and accounted for as in the
case of persons embraced within the provisions of said Section 4.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 51. 1912, sec. 46B. 1916, ch. 566, sec. 46B.

53. Such Orphans' Court or County Commissioners, as the case may
be, shall have full power and authority, in the case of all persons hereto-
fore sent to the Rosewood State Training School under the provisions of
Section 51 of this Article, and still confined therein, to exercise all of the
powers conferred upon them by Section 52 of this Article with respect
to persons hereafter to be so sent thereto, to the end that payment for the
future maintenance and support of such persons while in such institution
may be required, made, collected and accounted for as in the case of per-
sons hereafter to be sent thereto under the provisions of said Section 52.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 52. 1912, sec. 47. 1904, sec. 40. 1894, ch. 562, sec. 5.

54. It shall be the duty of said visitors when they have the means and
facilities at command for so doing to divide said asylum and training
school into two distinct departments, one educational, the other custodial.
All feeble-minded persons in said institution who are capable of improve-
ment shall be placed in the educational department and shall be taught
the rudiments of a common school education, as far as practicable, in con-
nection with culture in manual and industrial occupations, with a view to
secure future usefulness and self-support. The custodial department shall
be an asylum for such feeble-minded persons in said institution as shall
not be capable of improvement by school instruction and who shall re-
quire extraordinary surveillance and care.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 53. 1924, ch. 336.

55. The said Board of Visitors may, in its discretion, parole for an
indefinite period such inmates of said institution as they may deem proper,
and the superintendent and parole officer of said institution shall have
supervision of all such paroled persons during said parole with authority
in either or both of said officials to take said paroled persons in custody
and return them to the institution when the Board of Visitors may deem
such action necessary for the proper care and protection of the person
paroled or for the protection of the community.

¹ Sec. 2, of ch. 65 of Acts of 1937 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.