958 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59.

any court or judge of this State, founded on oath, requiring
security to keep the peace, and who shall fail to give such security.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 58, sec. 9. 1826, ch 197, sec. 8.

9. If any insane or lunatic person mentioned in the three
preceding sections, shall be possessed of real or personal property,
the annual profit or rent of which shall be adequate to his reason-
able support in any hospital or asylum for the reception of insane
or lunatic persons, the court or judge shall appoint a trustee for
the estate of said lunatic or insane person, and shall require the
said trustee to give bond to the State of Maryland, in such penalty
and with such security as the court or judge shall approve, with
condition that he will cause the said lunatic or insane person to
be confined and supported in some hospital or insane asylum
until such person shall have recovered his reason, and that he
will faithfully administer and fully account for all such estate,
income and effects of said lunatic or insane person as shall come
to his possession or be under his care or direction.

Duties of Trustees of the Poor.

P. G.L., (1860), art. 58, sec. 10. 1826, ch 197, sec. 4.

10. The trustees of the poor of the several counties and the

city of Baltimore shall receive all persons committed to their re-
spective almshouses under the preceding sections of this article,

and shall provide for their accommodation and support; and the

expenses thereof shall be levied upon the counties and the said
city, respectively.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1826, ch. 197, sec. 5.

11. Nothing contained in this article shall affect the powers of
the courts of equity, further than to require that the estate of such
lunatic or insane person, if he hath any, shall be chargeable with
the expenses of his commitment and confinement.

The Lunacy Commission.

1886, ch 487, sec 13.

12. There shall be a board known under the name of "The
Lunacy Commission," which shall have supervision over all insti-
tutions, public, corporate or private, in which insane persons are
detained.