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defraying the expenses of chemical and scientific examination of
suspected articles of food or drink, for salary of inspectors and
other necessary expenses, to be paid by the treasurer of the State
on the warrant of the comptroller, at such times and in such
sums as the board may direct.

ARTICLE XLIV.

HOSPITAL—MARYLAND.

11. Provision for accommodation of 400 pauper lunatics, in said hospital. Amount to be paid by each county for the care of its insane paupers; how ascer- tained, etc Authority of board of managers of said hospital to enforce these provisions.

Second Hospital for the Insane. 16 Board of managers; term of office and powers of such board. 17. Terms of office, vacancies. 18. Appropriation for said hospital. 19. Board of managers to purchase land 20. Commitments to said hospital. 21 Additional appropriation. 22. Report of said board.

1894, ch. 450.

11. They shall provide accommodation for at least four
hundred 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
counties and the city of Baltimore, according to the population
as ascertained by the preceding census. The sum of money to
be paid by the several counties, respectively, for the support and
care of their insane paupers, shall be annually estimated and
determined by the board of managers of said hospital, who shall
report to the county commissioners of each county the amount
so due by it, not later than the tenth day of January in each
year, and such estimate shall be upon the basis of the number of
patients in said hospital from said county of the first day of each
year, at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per capita per