EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

653

183," so as to further . provide for the admission, custody
and discharge of idiotic, imbecile and feeble-minded
persons.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

CHAP. 362

land, That Section 4 of Chapter 562 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1894 be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

Section 4. And be it enacted, That said Maryland Asylum
and Training School for Feeble-Minded shall receive, care

Repeal and
re-enact.

for and educate, free of charge, all idiotic, imbecile and
feeble-minded persons of this State whom the board of
visitors shall consider proper subjects to receive the benefit
of said asylum and training school, who shall present a cer-
tificate 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 educa-
tion; 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 maintenance 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

Receive and
educate
feeble-
minded
persons, etc.

visitors shall approve; and all moneys so received for board
and tuition shall be applied in the maintenance of said insti-
tution; 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 Mary-
land, 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,

How money
shall be
applied.