LUNATICS AND INSANE. 193

that is due the said hospital for the insane from the several
counties having patients chargeable thereto, and said Comp-
troller shall pass the same to the credit of the several State
hospitals for the insane. The State Comptroller shall there-
upon notify the County Treasurer of each county so owing of
the amount thereof and charge the same to said county, and
the Board of County Commisioners of said county shall levy a
tax in said county for said amount and pay the amount due the
State into the State Treasury; and, should any county fail to
levy a tax in said county for said amount then due said State
and shall fail at the time of levying other county taxes, there-
after to levy the tax aforesaid to amount sufficient to pay the
indebtedness subsequently incurred, it shall be the duty of the
Attorney-General to bring in the name of the State an action
against any county in the Circuit Court for such county so fail
ing aforesaid to enforce the levying of said tax for the recov-
ery of the amount due the State, as aforesaid. Upon the failure
of any county to levy such tax as aforesaid to an amount suffi-
cient to pay the amount then due the State, it shall be the
duty of the State Comptroller to charge such delinquent county
with a penalty of interest at one per centum per month upon
the amount of indebtedness for each month until payment
thereof and penalty thereon be paid. It shall be the duty of
the County Treasurer, upon the collection of the taxes herein
required to be levied, to pay into the State Treasury the
amount due and owing from his county at the time and in the
manner required for the payment of State taxes collected, and
the State Comptroller and the State Treasurer shall upon the
first day of July and January in each year transfer the full
amount received from counties under the provisions of this
Article to the account of the State hospitals for the insane.
Taxes levied and collected in any county for the purpose named
in this Article shall be used only to defray the expenses of the
insane, and shall not be diverted to any other purpose, nor be
transferred to any other fund by the State or county authori-
ties. Whenever the superintendent ef any State hospital for
the insane has held and treated a patient as from one county
or the County Commissioners of such county makes claim
that such patient is not a proper charge against the said county
and such County Commissioners shall notify the State Comp-
troller that it is claimed by them that such patient is not a
proper charge against their county, and shall claim that the
said patient is a proper charge against some other county, it
shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of each of
said counties to file such proofs as they may have with the
State Comptroller within thirty days from the time of such
notification, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the State