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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

occurring in any of said classes from death, resignation, re-
moval from the State, or from any cause whatever, to appoint
a person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies for the
balance of the term of said class.

Appropria-
tion.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the sum of seventy-five
thousand (75,000) dollars or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase
of land and the erection and construction of the necessary
buildings upon what is known as the cottage or segregate plan,
for the better provision for the insane of the State of Mary-
land; and the Treasurer of the State is hereby directed to pay
on the warrant of the Comptroller to the said board of mana-
gers, upon the exhibition of proper vouchers, such sums as
may be required for the purpose of this act, not exceeding the
sum of seventy-five thousand dollars.

May purchase
land.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said board of managers
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase
a tract or tracts of land comprising not less than two hundred
and fifty acres, and shall immediately proceed to the erection
and construction of suitable buildings to care for such of the
insane of the State as may be sent to the hospital, as herein-
after provided.

Commit-
ments to
hospital.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the judges of the Criminal
Court of Baltimore city, and the judges of the Circuit Courts
of the different counties of the State may commit to the said
hospital, in accordance with the provisions of the Code, as
soon as the board of managers shall be ready to receive and
properly care for them, such insane persons as are now main-
tained by Baltimore city and the respective counties of the
State at the public charge, not to exceed in number the proper
quota to which said city or counties may be entitled, as based
upon the last preceding census of the United States.

Additional
appropria-

tion

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of meeting
the expenses of said hospital after it shall be ready to receive
inmates, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be and the
same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, and the Treasurer of the State is
authorized and directed to pay the same or so much thereof as
may be necessary to the Board of Managers of the Second
Hospital for the insane of the State of Maryland, on the war-
rant of the Comptroller, at such times and in such amounts as
the board of managers may require.