78 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

insane, as defined in section 3, to notify the State's attorney of
said county or city, and he shall immediately thereupon bring
the said question before the circuit court for the said county or
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, for determination in accordance
with the provisions of this section. Nothing contained in this
section shall prevent the friends or relatives of such lunatic or
insane person from confining him or her or providing for his or
her comfort.

1000, ch. 603.

3. No person shall be deemed entitled to the benefit of the
preceding sections who shall possess or be entitled to receive
sufficient income for his or her maintenance and support as a
patient in any home, retreat or hospital for the insane in this
State, or who has relatives or others legally chargeable with his or
her support, who are able to pay for the maintenance and support
of the said person as a patient at any home, retreat or hospital
for the insane in this State. The county commissioners of any
county or the supervisors of city charities of the department of
charities and corrections of the city of Baltimore may consent
in writing to the commitment in accordance with the provisions
of section one of this article, of any indigent insane person
from the respective counties or the city aforesaid not able to pay
the whole cost of his or her maintenance, but who may be able
to pay for part thereof, as a reimbursing patient, and designate
the rate per week which shall be reimbursed to the county or
city of Baltimore, from which said patient is committed; but no
person shall be committed as a reimbursing patient who is able,
or who has relatives or others legally chargeable with the support
of said person, who are able to pay the rates for private patients
at the State hospital or at any institution, home or retreat for the
insane within the State.

Ibid..

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
of the State of Maryland, made within one week after separate
examination by them of said alleged lunatic, and setting forth