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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 267.

AN ACT to add new sections to the first article

of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Al-

legany county," to be sub-titled " Insane Asy-

lum," and to vest in the County Commissioners

of said county additional powers relating to the

care of insane persons.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the following new sections be

and are hereby added to the first article of the

New sections

Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Allegany

county," to be sub-titled "Insane Asylum," and

to read as follows, viz:

SEC. — . The County Commissioners of said

county are hereby authorized to build, erect and

Build and

maintain an Insane Asylum in said county for the

erect.

safe keeping and treatment of insane paupers ne-

cessary to be maintained at the expense of said

county, and of any other insane persons who may

be received therein by order of said commissioners.

SEC. — . Said County Commissioners shall have

full power to contract for the purchase of suitable

land on which to erect the same, and to take and

receive a deed of conveyance therefor, and to en-

Power to

ter into a contract, or contracts, for the erection

contract.

of a suitable building, or buildings, for said pur-

pose, and for the purchase of materials for the

same, and for the doing of all other acts neces-

sary or proper to be done in carrying out said de-

sign.

SEC. — . After the erection of said asylum said

commissioners shall have full power to appoint

such managers, keepers, superintendents and phy-

Appoint offi-

sicians therefor as may be deemed necessary, and

cers

to prescribe rules for the government thereof, and

to enter into agreements for the reception of in-

mates thereof, and fix and establish, from time to

time, rates at which inmates not dependent on