1264 HOSPITAL—MARYLAND. [ART. 44

ARTICLE XLIV.

HOSPITAL—MARYLAND.

1. Governor to appoint board of managers. 2. To be a body corporate. 3. Quorum. 4. General power of board. 5. Treasurer; bond; superinten- dent. Other officers. 6. May make rules. 7. Shall maintain effective inspec- tion. 8. Shall appoint two or more stu- dents of insanity. 9. May hold property. 10. Annual report to governor. 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 enfore these provisions. 12. Pay patients. 13. Circuit courts and criminal court of Baltimore may send pauper lunatics. 14 Annual appropriation for sup- port of hospital. 15. Fence and enclosure to be built and maintained. Springfield State Hospital. 16. Board of managers; term of office and powers of such board. 17. Vacancies; how filled. 18. Commitments to said hospital. 19. Report of said board.

1888, art. 44, sec. 1. 1860, art 44, sec. 1. 1876, ch. 351, sec. 1.

1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate, shall biennially appoint three persons of undoubted
character, and selected with a view to skill and efficiency, man-
agers of the Maryland hospital for the insane, who shall serve
without pay, and hold their offices for six years, and until
others are appointed in their stead, so that the said board
shall always consist of nine members.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1878, ch. 341, sec. 13.

2. The hospital for the insane, which was heretofore located
and built on its present site, at or near Catonsville, in Balti-
more county, in this State, by and under the authority of the
laws of this State, and which is now under the general direc-
tion and control of the managers of the Maryland hospital for
the insane, is hereby declared to have been built and estab-
lished on its said site by the authority and direction of this
State; the board of managers of the Maryland hospital for