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shall also have power in the case of any vacancy occurring in any
of said classes from death, resignation, removal from the State,
or from any cause whatever, to appoint a person or persons to
fill such vacancy or vacancies for the balance of the term of said

1894, ch. 281.

18. The sum of seventy-five thousand ($75, 000) dollars or so
much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the
purchase of land and the erection and construction of the neces-
sary buildings upon what is known as the cottage or segregate
plan, for the better provision for the insane of the State of Mary-
land; and the treasurer of the State is hereby directed to pay on
the warrant of the comptroller to the said board of managers,
upon the exhibition of proper vouchers, such sums as may be
required for the purpose of this sub title, not exceeding the sum
of seventy-five thousand dollars.

Ibid

19. The said board of managers are hereby authorized and
empowered to purchase a tract or tracts of land comprising not
less than two hundred and fifty acres, and shall immediately pro-
ceed to the erection and construction of suitable buildings to
care for such of the insane of the State as may be sent to the
hospital, as hereinafter provided.

Ibid.

20. The judges of the criminal Court of Baltimore City, and
the judges of the circuit courts for the different counties of the
State may commit to the said hospital, in accordance with the
provisions of the code, as soon as the board of managers shall be
ready to receive and properly care for them, such insane persons
as are now maintained by Baltimore city and the respective
counties of the State at the public charge, not to exceed in num-
ber the proper quota to which said city or counties may be enti-
tled, as based upon the last preceding census of the United States.

Ibid.

21. For the purpose of meeting the expenses of said hospital
after it shall be ready to receive inmates, the sum of twenty-five