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receive a deed of conveyance therefor, and to enter into a con-
tract or contracts for the erection of a suitable building or build-
ings for said purpose, and for the purchase of materials for the
same, and for the doing of all other acts necessary or proper to
be done in carrying out said design.

1880, ch. 267.

171. After the erection of said asylum they shall have full
power to appoint such managers, keepers, superintendents and
physicians therefor as may be deemed necessary, and to prescribe
rules for the government thereof, and to enter into agreements
for the reception of inmates thereof, and fix and establish, from

time to time, rates at which inmates not dependent on the county
shall be received, and to fix the duties and compensation of all
employees necessary to carry on said asylum.

Ibid.

172. After the erection of said asylum, all persons who have
been heretofore determined in the circuit court for Allegany

county to be insane paupers, and who at the time said asylum is
ready for use shall be inmates of other institutions at the expense
of said county, shall be removed to said asylum; and thereafter,
whenever any person shall be found to be an insane pauper, and

dependent on said county, by inquisition in the circuit court
thereof, said court shall commit said person to said asylum, and
none other, unless the county commissioners shall consent to his
"being sent to some other institution.

Ibid.

173. The county commissioners are hereby authorized to levy
such sum annually upon the taxable property in said county, as
may be necessary to meet the running expenses of said asylum

over and above its revenues, if any such deficiency be found to
exist.

1884, ch. 78. 1888, ch. 503.

174. They shall levy annually, on the taxable property in said
county, a sum of money sufficient to pay the interest on the
bonds authorized to be issued for the "insane asylum" by the