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ARTICLE XLIV.

Hospital - Maryland

10. Appropriation. 14 Oath to be taken by officers to be filed with clerk of superior court neglect or refusal.

15. Officers hereafter elected to take oath and clerk of superior court to report to governor.

1865, c. 136 amends section 10 as follows:
SEC. 10. The president and visitors of the Mary- land hospital shall receive from each county and the city of Baltimore, two hundred dollars per annum, for the support of each pauper lunatic sent from said county or city to said hospital. In force from March 24, 1865.	1865, c. 130. Appropriation.

1864, c. 129 adds the following sections :
14. The president, vice president, visitors and phy- sicians of the Maryland hospital shall, before the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, take and subscribe, before some person qualified by law to administer oaths, the following oath or affirma- tion: I do swear (or affirm) that I hare not borne arms against the United States, nor given any aid, countenance, sympathy or support to those engaged in armed hostility to the government of the United States, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, and support the constitution, laws and government thereof, any law or ordinance of any state to the contrary notwithstanding; the said president, vice-president, visitors and physicians	1864, c 129. Oath to be taken by officers
shall file the said oath so taken and subscribed by them, properly attested, with the clerk of the supe- rior court for Baltimore city, on or before the said first day of May, and the said clerk shall mark on the same the day on which the same was received by him ; and if the said president, vice president, visit-	To be filed with clerk of supe- rior court.