752 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 26,

cated physician, and in addition shall also appoint as many
physieians, surgeons, apothecaries,.stewards, matrons, nur-
ses, servants and other officers for the administration and
service of said hospital, as they may deem necessary, all of
whom shall hold their appointments at the pleasure of the
Board of Managers.

"Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the following additional
section be, and the same is hereby, added to said Article 44,
of the Code of Public General Laws, as so amended by the
said Act of 1876, Chapter 351.

"13. The Hospital for the Insane which was heretofore
located and built on its present site, at or near Catonsville,
in Baltimore County, in this State, by and under the author-
ity of the Laws of this State, and which is now under the
general direction and control of the managers of the Mary-
land Hospital for the Insane, is hereby declared to have been
built and established on its said site by the authority and
direction of this State. The Board of Managers of the
Maryland Hospital for the Insane, are a body politic and
corporate, by the name of the Board of Managers of the
Maryland Hospital for the Insane, and shall by that name
have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued in any court
of this State, and may have and use a common seal, and
may at their pleasure, alter and change the same. The said
corporation shall have and exercise all the rights and powers
heretofore vested in the Board of Managers of the Maryland
Hospital for the Insane. The said Board of Managers of the
Maryland Hospital for the Insane, as such corporation, is
hereby declared to be a public agency of this State for the
administration of one of the charities thereof; and the Hos-
pital aforesaid, located as aforesaid, is hereby declared to be
one of the means adopted by this State for the administration
of one of its public charities.

"Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage."

Which was adopted.

Said bill, as amended, was then read the second time, and
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, and ordered to
be printed.

Also, favorably,

House bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum of money
to pay the claim of Horace Resley, late Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Allegany County.

Which was read the second time.