1482 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

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
the insanity or idiocy of such person and the reason for such
opinion. No certificate shall be of force which shall be pre-
sented for the commitment of any patient more than thirty
days after date of examination. The form of physician's cer-
tificate shall be substantially as follows :

State of Maryland, county or city of ————. Dated ————,
I, a resident of the county or city of ————, being a graduate
of ———— Medical College and having practised as a physician
five years, do hereby certify that on this ———— day of ————
I have personally examined ————, age ————, (sex) ————,

———— (social state), and do verily believe that the said

———— is insane, and that the disease is of a character which,
in my opinion, requires that the person shall be placed in a
hospital or other establishment where the insane are detained
for care and treatment. I further certify that I am not related
by blood or marriage to the said ———— nor in any way con-
nected as medical attendant or otherwise with the hospital or
other establishment in which it is proposed to place the afore-
said ————, and that this certificate is signed and made within
one week of the examination of the patient.

————, M. D.

Residence ————.

This section shall not apply to the cases of voluntary com-
mitments as provided for in section 37.

1888, art. 59, sec. 32. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 33

32. It shall not be lawful for any physician to certify to the
insanity of any person for the purpose of committing such
person to confinement in an asylum or other place where the
insane are kept with which said physician may be in any man-
ner connected or in which he may be in anywise interested.

Ibid. sec. 33. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 34

33. All superintendents or other officers of any asylum or
other institution where the insane are kept in custody or
received for treatment, whether public, corporate or private, or
almshouse, shall, within ten days after the reception of such
patient or person, make or cause to be made a description of
such case in a book kept exclusively for the purpose; they