960 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59,

dollars per annum, besides his actual expenses incurred in the
performance of the duties of his office.

1886, ch. 487, sec 19.

18. Said lunacy commission shall make such by-laws and
regulations, not inconsistent with this article, as they shall deem
proper. They shall meet at least once in three months; and
shall be required to meet at any time when a call for such meet-
ing shall be desired by any two members made to the secretary,
in writing.

Ibid. sec. 20.

19. The secretary, or at least one member of said commission
appointed for the purpose by the board, shall visit all public,
corporate or private institutions, including almshouses where the
insane are kept, at least once in every six months and report the
same to the commission with such comments as may be necessary,
which shall be recorded; and the said commission may order the
secretary to make visits of inspection at any time to any one or
all of said institutions, including almshouses where the insane
may be kept, and report in writing to said commission the con-
dition, management and treatment of the insane and idiotic
inmates of such institutions.

Ibid. see. 21.

20. If in their judgment any person confined in any institution
in this State as insane be not insane, the commission may, at any
time, bring the matter to the attention of the State's attorney of
Baltimore city, or the State's attorney of any of the respective
counties of the State, whose duty it shall be to apply to the
proper tribunal for the writ of habeas corpus, to the end that
proper inquiry and investigation may be had at once as to the
mental condition of such person; and if the court shall be of the
opinion that such person is not insane, then the court shall
discharge such person; but if the court shall determine that such
person is insane, then the court shall order that such person be
returned to the institution from which he has been taken under
said writ of habeas corpus.