798 HOSPITAL—MARYLAND. [ART. 44.

actual state of the hospital and properly in their charge; and at
the same time shall 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 compensation
of each; all which reports shall be laid before the general assem-
bly during the first ten days of its session.

1886, ch. 339, sec. 9.

11. They shall provide accommodation for at least two hun-
dred 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 coun-
ties and the city of Baltimore, according to population, as ascer-
tained by the preceding census.

Ibid. sec. 10.

12. They may receive into said hospital as pay patients, insane
persons, other than the pauper lunatics referred to in the preced-
ing section, to a number not exceeding seventy-five at any one
tune.

Ibid. sec. 11.

13. The circuit courts for the several counties, and the crimi-
nal court of Baltimore, in accordance with the provisions of
this 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, respec-
tively, be entitled under section 11,

Ibid. sec. 12.

14. 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

1886, ch. 205.

15. The said board of managers shall erect and maintain in
safe and proper repair a substantial and sufficient fence and en-