PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1365
CHAPTER 778.

AN ACT to appropriate certain sums of money to the County
Commissioners of Allegany County, Maryland, for the support
and maintenance at Sylvan Retreat of dependent insane per-
sons of Maryland, to meet the difference between the amount
paid by the counties of Maryland and the actual costs of sup-
porting and maintaining such persons at said asylum.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be the duty of County Commissioners to keep
minute and accurate account of all monies received and dis-
bursed for the support and maintenance of dependent insane
persons of Maryland in their charge at Sylvan Retreat, and at
the end of the years 1914 and 1915 they shall prepare a com-
plete statement thereof, setting forth in detail all monies re-
ceived and disbursed therefor, which shall be submitted to the
Secretary of the Lunacy Commission, and upon his approval of
the same and it shall appear that there is a deficiency between
the amount paid by Allegany County and other Counties of
Maryland and the actual costs of supporting and maintaining
such persons, the said deficiency shall be reimbursed by the
State.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of
any money in the Treasury of the State of Maryland not other-
wise appropriated, to the County Commissioners of Allegany
County to pay for any and all deficiencies arising from the
support and maintenance of dependent insane persons of Mary-
land, approved and ascertained as provided in the above Sec-
tion, for the year 1914, and a like sum of ten thousand dollars
for the year 1915, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and
the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to issue his warrant upon the Teasurer for such
amounts, and payable to the said Commissioners upon the pro-
duction of the required approval and certification of the cor-
rectness of the account.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1914.