147'4 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

1888, art. 59, sec. 2. 1860, art. 58, sec. 2. 1817, ch. 78. 1904, ch. 421.

2. From and after the first day of January, 1909, the State
of Maryland shall be charged with the maintenance, care, con-
trol and treatment of all dependent insane persons who are at
that time residents of the State of Maryland. And as soon as
practicable after the said first day of January, 1909, the State
board of lunacy shall transfer from the several county alms-
houses and county and city asylums to one of the State hos-
pitals for the insane such dependent insane persons who ore
residents of the State of Maryland as in the judgment of the
said board of lunacy should be so removed; and all such
dependent insane persons, after their removal to one of the
State hospitals for the insane, shall be maintained therein at
the expense of the State. In furtherance of this purpose, a
commission shall be appointed by the governor, of which he
shall be a member ex-officio, consisting of the lunacy commis-
sion, who shall report to the legislature on or before the 15th
day of January, 1906, such amendments to the present law
regulating the care and treatment of the insane and such other
measures, including plans for the enlargement of the present
State hospitals or the creation of other State hospitals, as may
to such commission seem necessary.

Ibid sec. 3. 1860, art. 58, sec. 3. 1824, ch. 49. 1900, 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 commis-
sioners 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 accord-
ance with the provisions of section 1, 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