106 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59.

sent a certificate of the orphans' court or county commissioners
of the city or county in which such persons respectively reside,
and they, their parents or guardians are unable to pay for
their maintenance and education in whole or in part; and in
case 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 mainte-
nance 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 and tuition shall be
applied in the maintenance of said institution; and all such
idiotic, imbecile or feeble-minded persons who have been, or
who shall hereafter be received into said institution free of
charge, upon the presentation of a certificate of the orphans'
court or county commissioners shall be taken and regarded as
wards of the State of Maryland, and all such persons shall
remain in the care, custody and control of the visitors of said
institution, and the visitors of said institution are hereby
authorized to retain all such persons in their care, custody and
control at said institution, until such time as in the judgment
of said visitors, or a majority of them, the welfare of such
persons and the public interest shall justify or call for their
release or discharge therefrom, unless otherwise discharged by
due process of law.

Approved April 3, 1906.