ART. 44.] HOSPITAL—MARYLAND. 795 '

ARTICLE XLIV.

HOSPITAL—MARYLAND.

1. Governor to appoint board of managers. 2 To be a body corporate. 3. Quorum. 4. General power of board. 6. Treasurer; bond; superintendent, other officers. 6. May make rules. 7. Shall maintain effective inspec- tion. 8. Shall appoint two or more students of insanity.

9. May hold property. 10. Annual report to governor. 11 Accommodation for 250 pauper lunatics. 12. Fay patients. 13. Circuit courts and criminal court of Baltimore may send pauper lunatics. 14. Annual appropriation for support of hospital. 15. Fence and enclosure to be built and maintained.

P. G. L , (1800,) art. 44, sec. 1. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 1.

1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate, shall biennially appoint three persons of undoubted char-
acter, and selected with a view to skill and efficiency, managers
of the Maryland hospital for the insane, who shall serve without
pay, and hold their offices for six years, and until others are
appointed in their stead, so that the said board shall always con-
sist of nine members.

1876, ch. 351, sec. 13. 1878, ch. 341.

2. 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