ART. 46.] INEBRIATES. 119

1868, c. 275 recites that whereas, the act of incorporation of the Maryland Hospital
appointed eleven visitors for Baltimore city and one visitor for each county then
constituted; and whereas the said act authorized the board to fill all vacancies but
did not authorize them to make original appointments for new counties; and where-
as the county of Wicomico has been formed since the said act of incorporation, there-
fore it enacts, that Dr. Francis M. Siemens of Wicomico county be and he is hereby
appointed a visitor of the Maryland Hospital for said county, and that to any vacancy
which may happen in said board of visitors by death, resignation or other disquali-
fication, his successor shall be appointed as provided for in the original act of incor-
poration.

In force and approved March 30,1868.

1868, c. 246 is an act to aid in the establishment of a hospital, in connection with
the Washington University of Baltimore. It appropriates $10,000 for that purpose,
and $2,500 annually, for sustaining the hospital.

1868, c. 117 repeals sections first and second of the act of 1862, c. 234 entitled an
act to amend an act to provide for the erection of a hospital for the insane of this
state, and sections fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth of the act of 1864, c. 248, entitled
an act for the government of the Insane Asylum, and to regulate admissions thereto,
and enacts sections in lieu thereof.

ARTICLE XLVI.

Inebriates.

1868, c. 264, entitled an act to authorize the commissioners of the Insane Hospital
at Catonsville to receive inebriates as patients until the hospital for inebriates proper
shall be completed, enacts that the commissioners of the Insane Hospital at Catons-
ville be and they are hereby authorized to receive inebriates as patients in said hos-
pital, subject to the same charges and conditions as other patients until the hospital
for inebriates proper shall be completed.

In force and approved March 30,1868.

1868, c. 437, entitled an act to authorize and empower the president and directors
of the Maryland Insane Asylum to convey certain land to the Maryland Inebriate
Asylum for the uses of said institution, enacts that the president and directors of the
Maryland Insane Asylum be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to
grant and convey unto the Maryland Inebriate Asylum, for the proper uses of said
institution, and the erection thereon of a suitable building or buildings, such portion
of the farm now owned by the Maryland Insane Asylum, not exceeding fifty acres,
as may in their judgment be spared without injury to the interests of said asylum.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.