ART. 44] LUNATIC AND INSANE PAUPERS. 349

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annum; and the money so ascertained to be due by each county,
the county commissioners of said county are hereby authorized
and required to levy annually upon the assessable property of
said county, to be collected in the same manner as other taxes
now or shall hereafter be collected; and the treasurer of said
county, and if there be no treasurer, the county commissioners
of said county, is and are hereby authorized and directed to pay
said sum of money to the comptroller of the State in two equal
instalments, one half on the thirty-first day of December, and
the other half on the thirtieth day of September in each year;
and said comptroller shall, immediately upon the receipt of any
of said instalments, pay over the same to the board of managers
of said hospital. The money required from the several counties
for the support of their insane paupers in said hospital for the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and all arrearages due by
them on said accounts to January 1, 1894, shall be estimated and
determined by the managers of said hospital in like manner, and
said estimate sent to the county commissioners of each county
not later than the fifteenth day of April in said year; and the
county commissioners of each county shall, levy upon its assess-
able property in said year the amount of money so ascertained to
be due by their counties, respectively; and the treasurer of said
county, and if there be no treasurer, the county commissioners
of said county, shall pay one-half of the same to the comptroller
on the first day of October, and the other half on the thirty-first
day of December in said year, out of the first moneys coming
into their hands from the levy of said year; and said comp-
troller, immediately on receipt of any instalments, shall pay over
the same to said board of managers. The expenses of any
patients in said hospital from any county in excess of its quota,
as herein provided, shall be ascertained, levied and paid for in
like manner, as provided for its quota. The board of managers
of said hospital are hereby empowered and authorized to enforce
the provisions of this section by writs of mandamus, or to collect
the moneys so ascertained by them to be due and payable, in any
other way authorized by law, and may bring suit upon the bond
of the treasurer of any county, and if there be no treasurer,
may bring suit against the county commissioners of said county,
in case the moneys so due by said county shall have been paid