1484 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

in their opinion, such person is unfit to be discharged, then
and in such case said commission shall be authorized to renew
the contract by their own authority for one month at a time.

1868, art. 59, sec. 38. 1886, ch. 487, sec 39.

38. No institution for the custody, confinement or treatment
of the insane, whether public, corporate or private, shall be
authorized to hold in confinement or custody any number of
insane persons exceeding five for compensation, unless there
shall be a physician in regular attendance upon such institution
or house.*

Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble Minded.

1888, ch. 183, sec. 1. 1894, ch. 562, secs. 1 and 4.
30. Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble
Minded, a corporation duly incorporated by the act of 1888,
chapter 183, under the name of "The Visitors of the Asylum and
Training School for the Feeble Minded of the State of Maryland,"
with the powers and duties in said act specified and organized
thereunder shall receive, care for and educate all idiotic, imbe-
cile and feeble minded persons of this State. The board of visi-
tors shall consider proper subjects to receive the benefits of
said Asylum and Training School who shall present a certifi-
cate of the orphans' court or county commissioners of the city
or county in which such persons respectively reside that they,
their parents or guardians are unable to pay for the mainte-
nance and education in whole or in part; and if such persons
or any of them, their parents or guardians are able to pay for
such maintenance and education in part, then said visitors
shall be at liberty to charge so much as they shall find such,
persons, their parents or guardians are severally able to pay
towards such maintenance and education; but where such
persons, their parents or guardians are able to pay in full, the
said visitors are permitted to charge such reasonable amount
as will cover the expense for the maintenance and education of
each person so able to pay; and said visitors shall also be
authorized to receive feeble minded children from other States
and the District of Columbia when there is ample room in said
institution for the same upon such terms and conditions as the
board of visitors shall approve; and all moneys so received
for board or tuition shall be applied to the maintenance of
said institution.

* See art 27, sec 699.