ART. 59] SCHOOL FOR FEEBLE MINDED. 1485

1894, ch. 562, sec. 5.

40. It shall be the duty of said visitors when they have the
means and facilities at command for so doing to divide said
asylum and training school into two distinct departments, one
educational, the other custodial. All feeble minded persons in
said institution who are capable of improvement shall be
placed in the educational department and shall be taught the
rudiments of a common school education, as far as practicable,
in connection with culture in manual and industrial occupa-
tions, with a view to secure future usefulness and self support.
The custodial department shall be an asylum for such feeble
minded persons in said institution as shall not be capable of
improvement by school instruction and who shall require extra-
ordinary surveillance and care.

Ibid. sec. 6.

41. Said board of visitors when they shall have sufficient
funds at their disposal to provide a proper building or build-
ings and suitably equip the same for the purpose shall estab-
lish a department for the care and treatment of epileptic
children, and shall be authorized to receive the same upon the
same terms and conditions they receive other feeble minded
children, and the said visitors shall have full power and
authority to make all necessary rules and regulations to
govern the admission of epileptic children and for the control
and management of such epileptic department as they shall
deem for the best interest of the institution and the welfare of
its inmates.

Ibid. sec. 7.

42_t The sum of thirteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as may be required, is appropriated per annum to be paid to
the said board of visitors for the use of the said asylum and
training school and for the support and maintenance thereof.

1900, ch 521, sec. 1.

43. It shall be the duty of the visitors of the Maryland
Asylum and Training School for Feeble Minded to report or
cause to be reported to the lunacy commission the names of all
inmates in said asylum and training school as wards of the
State whom they know or have reason to believe to be twenty-
one years of age, with such information as said visitors possess
as to the age, condition and parentage of such inmates and the
place of residence of the parents or other near relatives or
friends of such inmates if known.