964 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59.

1886, ch. 487, sec. 32.

31. No person shall be committed to or confined as a patient
in any institution, public, corporate or private, or almshouse, or
other place for the care and custody of the insane or idiotic,
except upon the written certificates of two qualified physicians,
made within one week after separate examination by them of
said alleged lunatic, and setting forth the insanity or idiocy of
such person, and the reason for such opinion. The form of
physician's certificate shall be substantially as follows: State of
Maryland, county or city of ————, dated ————, I, a resident
of the county or city of ————, being a graduate of ———— med-
ical college, and having practised as a physician five years, do-
hereby certify that on this ———— day of ————, I have per-
sonally examined ————, age, ————, (sex,) ————, (social state,)
and do verily believe that the said ———— is insane, and that the
disease is of a character which, in my opinion, requires that the
person shall be placed in a hospital or other establishment where
the insane are detained for care and treatment; I further certify,
that I am not related by blood or marriage to the said ————,
nor in any way connected as medical attendant or otherwise, with
the hospital or other establishment in which it is proposed to
place the aforesaid ————; and that this certificate is signed and
made within one week of the examination of the patient.

——————, M. D.

Residence, ———————.

This section shall not apply to the cases of insane paupers, as.
regulated by sections 1 to 10, inclusive, nor to the cases of vol-
untary commitments, as provided for in section 37.

Ibid. sec. 33.

32. It shall not be lawful for any physician to certify to the
insanity of any person for the purpose of committing such person
to confinement in an asylum or other place where the insane are
kept, with which said .physician may be in any manner connected
or in which he may be in anywise interested.

Ibid. sec. 34.

33. All superintendents or other officers of any asylum or
other institution where the insane are kept in custody, or received