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support and care of their insane paupers, shall be annually
estimated and determined by the board of managers of said
hospital, who shall report to the County Commissioners of
each county the amount so due by it, not later than the tenth
day of January in each year, and such estimate shall be upon
the basis of the number of patients in said hospital from said
county of the first day of each year, at the rate of one
hundred and fifty dollars per capita per annum; and the
money so ascertained to be due by each county, the County
Commissioners of said county are hereby authorized and
required to levy annually upon the assessable property
of said county, to be collected in the same manner as
other taxes now or shall hereafter be collected; and the
treasurer of said county, and if there be no treasurer, the
County Commissioners of said county, is and are hereby
authorized and directed to pay said sum of money to the
Comptroller of the State in two equal instalments, one-half on
the thirty-first day of December, and the other half on the
thirtieth day of September in each year; and said Comptroller
shall, immediately upon the receipt of any of said instalments,
pay over the same to the board of managers of said hospital,
The money required from the several counties for the support
of their insane paupers in said hospital for the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, and all arrearages due by them on
said accounts to January 1, 1894, shall be estimated and deter-
mined by the managers of said hospital in like manner, and
said estimate gent to the County Commissioners of each county
not later than the fifteenth day of April in said year; and the
County Commissioners of each county shall levy upon its
assessable property in said year the amount of money so ascer-
tained to be due by their counties, respectively; and the treas-
urer of said county, and if there be no treasurer, the County
Commissioners of said county, shall pay one-half of the same
to the Comptroller on the first day of October, and the other
half on the thirty-first day of December in said year, out of
the first moneys coming into their hands from the levy of said
year; and said Comptroller, immediately on receipt, of any
instalments, shall pay over the same to said board of managers.
The expenses of any patients in said hospital from any county
in excess of its quota, as herein provided, shall be ascertained,
levied and paid for in like manner, as provided for its quota.
The board of managers of said hospital are hereby empowered
and authorized to enforce the provisions of this section by
writs of mandamus, or to collect the moneys so ascertained by
them to be due and payable, in any other way authorized by
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