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HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS. [ART. 26.

nance of insane persons, and the use of the Maryland Hospital for
the Insane.

Id. s 8
Reports of
managers and
officers.

8. The board of managers shall annually, in the month of De-
cember, submit to the governor a report, showing the past year's
operations, and actual state of the hospital and property in their
charge, and at the same time transmit to the governor the annual
report of the superintendent and treasurer, which shall show all
receipts and expenditures of every officer and employee, and compen-
sation of each; all which reports shall be laid before the General
Assembly of Maryland during the first ten days of its session.

Id s 9
Number of
insane paupers
to be provided
for

0. The board of managers shall provide accommodation for at
least two hundred and fifty pauper lunatics of this State, who may
be sent to the said hospital for curative treatment, which number
shall be from time to time apportioned by them among the several
counties and the city of Baltimore according to their respective
populations, as ascertained by the last preceding census.

Id s 10.
Number of pay
patients
allowed.

10. The said board of managers may receive into said hospital
as pay patients insane persons, other than the pauper lunatics re-
ferred to in the last preceding section, to a number not exceeding
seventy-five at any one time.

Id s 11
Who em-
powered to send
insane paupers
to the hospital.

11. The judges of the Circuit Court of the several counties and
the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, in accordance with the provi-
sions of the code, are hereby authorized to send from time to time
to the said hospital pauper lunatics of this State, to the number to
which the respective counties and city of Baltimore shall respectively
be entitled under the ninth section aforegoing.

Id s 12.
Appropriation.

12. There shall be appropriated, and the treasurer of the State,
upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay to the managers of
the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, annually, in equal quarterly
payments, on the first days of January, April, July, and October,
in each and every year, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, for the
support of said hospital.

1878, c. 341.
Declared to be a
public agency of
the State

13. The Hospital for the Insane, which was heretofore located
and built on its present site, at or near Catonsville, in Baltimore
county, in this State, by and under the authority of the laws of this
State, and which is now under the general direction and control of
the managers of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, is hereby
declared to have been built and established on its said site by the
authority and direction of this State. The board of managers of the
Maryland Hospital for the Insane are a body politic and corporate,
, by the name of the Board of Managers of the Maryland Hospital
for the Insane, and shall by that name have perpetual succession,
may sue and be sued in any court of this State, and may have and
use a common seal, and may, at their pleasure, alter and change the
same. The said corporation shall have and exercise all the rights
and powers heretofore vested in the board of managers of the Mary-
land Hospital for the Insane. The said board of managers of the
Maryland Hospital for the Insane, as such corporation, is hereby