LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 464.
AN ACT to authorize the Board of County School Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County to establish Kindergarten
Schools in said County.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

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land^ That the Board of County School Commissioners of
Baltimore be and they are hereby authorized to establish Kin-
dergarten schools in said county, wherever and whenever they
may in their judgment deem it necessary, and subject to such
regulations as they may establish.

Kindergar-
ten schools.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the expense of conducting
such Kindergarten schools shall be defrayed in the same man-
ner as the other public schools of said county.

Expense
defrayed

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 465.
AN ACT to repeal Section 5 of Article 59 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Lunatics and Insane," sub-title
"Insanity as a defense in Criminal Cases," and to re-enact
the same with amendment.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary'

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land, That section 5 of Article 59 of the Code of Public
General Laws be repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows :
5. If the jury find by their verdict that such person was, at

Repeal.

the time of committing the offense, and then is insane or
lunatic, the court before which trial was had shall cause such
person to be sent to the Almshouse of the county or city in
which such person resided at the time of the commission of
such act, o'r to a hospital, or some other place better suited, in
the judgment of the court, to the condition of such prisoner,
there to be confined until he shall have recovered his reason
and be discharged by due course of law. And any judge of
the circuit court in any county where such person is detained
or of Baltimore city, as the case may be, may, upon habeas
corpus proceedings, make any order, absolute or conditional,
for the permanent or temporary discharge of the person upon
satisfactory proof of permanent or temporary recovery.

Insane per-
sons to be
sent to the
Almshouse.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

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