498 GUARDIANSHIP OP NON COMPOTES MENTIS, INSANE, ETC. [ART. 53.

Not to prevent friends of same from confining or providing for him	of law. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the friends or relations of such lunatic or insane person from confining him, or providing for his comfort.
Id s 2 1817, c 78, 1876, c 351 County commis- sioners may send to Mary- land Hospital	3. The county commissioners of any county may in their dis- cretion remove from the almshouse any lunatic pauper therein, and cause said lunatic pauper to be sent to the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, and shall levy on the county such sum as will defray the expenses incident to the removal of such lunatic, and the expenses
Expenses.	that maybe incurred during his stay in said hospital, said expenses in said hospital in no case to exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum. This section to apply only in cases where the quota allowed any such county under article XXVI of this Code is filled.
Id s 3. 1824, c 49 Who to be deemed a pauper lunatic.	4. No person shall be deemed a lunatic pauper under the preced- ing two sections who shall possess in his own right any property, real or personal, or be entitled to the use of any property by last will and testament, or deed of trust for his use or benefit; nor shall the child of any person whose property is actually assessed to one thousand dollars who may be afflicted with lunacy, and whose usual place of abode has been with his parents, be entitled to the benefit of the preceding section.
Id s 4 1826, c 197, 8 1. Jury may find person indicted to be lunatic	5. When any person indicted for a crime or misdemeanor shall allege insanity or lunacy in his defence, the jury impanelled to try such person shall find by their verdict whether such person was at the time of the commission of the offence, or still is, insane, lunatic, or otherwise.
Id s 5. 1826, c 197, s 1 How to be dealt with, when so found.	6. If the jury find by their verdict that such person was at the time of committing the offence, and then is, insane or lunatic, the court before which such trial was had shall cause such person to be sent to the almshouse of the county or city to which such person belonged at the time of the commission of such act, or to an hos- pital, or some other place better suited in the judgment of the court to the condition of such prisoner, there to be confined until he shall have recovered his reason, and be discharged by due course of law.
Id s 6 1826, c 197, s 2. Inquisition to inquire whether person arrested for crime or mis- demeanor, is in- sane or lunatic	7. Where any person arrested for improper or disorderly conduct, or charged with any crime, offence, or misdemeanor, against whom no indictment has been found, shall appear to the court, or be al- leged to be a lunatic or insane, the court shall cause a jury of twelve good and lawful men to be impanelled forthwith, and shall charge said jury to inquire whether such person was at the time of the com- mission of the act complained of insane or lunatic, and still is so; and if such jury shall find that such person was at the time of the commission of such act insane or lunatic, and still is so, the court shall direct such person to be confined as directed in the preceding section, at the expense of the county or city, as the case may be, until he shall have recovered and been discharged by due course of law.
Id s. 7. 1826, c 197, s. 3 Inquisition	8. If, during the recess of the Circuit Court for any county, or the Criminal court of Baltimore, any person appearing or alleged