HARRY W. NICK., GOVERNOR. 81

reports of statements to be made to them by such relatives
or other persons upon such forms as may be prepared by
the Board of Mental Hygiene. If the County Commissioners
or the Department of Welfare of Baltimore City as the case
may be, shall determine that such person shall be required to
pay for his or her maintenance and support while in such
institution, or that his or her relatives or other persons legally
chargeable with his or her maintenance and support shall be
required to pay for the same, then, before any such person
shall be admitted into such institution, they shall make and
issue an order to that effect, and shall specify therein the
amount of such payments so to be made, and the times when
the same are to be made, and shall have the power to require
the relatives of any such person or others legally chargeable
with his or her maintenance and support, to enter into ap-
propriate and binding agreements with respect to the making
of such payments, and from time to time may modify or
change the terms thereof, as circumstances may justify.

All such payments shall be made to and collected by the
County Treasurer or the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore,
as the case may be, who shall account for and pay over the
same to the State Treasurer on or before the first days of Jan-
uary, April, July and October in each and every year, and
at the same time they shall report to the State Treasurer the
name of each inmate on whose behalf such payments have
been made, and the name of the institution in which he or she
is confined; and the amount of such payments in excess of
the sum of $125, provided by Section 47 of this Article,
. shall be paid to the State Treasurer and nothing contained
in Sections 3, 4 and 5 shall be construed to affect in any
way the obligation imposed by said Section 47 of this Article.

It is the intent of Sections 3, 4 and 5 that a husband may
be liable for the support of a wife while an inmate of any such
institution, a wife for a husband, a father or mother, or both
for a son or daughter, and a son or daughter, or both, for a
father or mother.

In case the property or estate of any person committed to
any of the said institutions as aforesaid is sufficient for his or
her maintenance or support, in whole or in part, while in such
institution, then the County Commissioners or the Depart-
ment of Welfare of Baltimore City, as the case may be, shall
have power to institute and prosecute all proper proceedings,
to subject the same thereto, and all payments made as a result
of such proceedings shall be accounted for and paid as here
inbefore provided.

Upon the death of any person committed to any of the said
institutions as aforesaid, the County Commissioners or the