1164 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 566

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That two new Sections be
and the same hereby are added to Article 59, title "Lunatics
and Insane, " sub-title "Lunatics or Insane Paupers, " the same
to follow immediately after Section 3 of said Article and sub-
title, to be known respectively as Sections 3A and 3B, and to
read as follows:

3A. The County Commissioners or the Supervisors of City
Charities, as the case may be, shall investigate the financial
condition of all persons hereafter to be committed under the
provisions of the preceding Sections of this Article to any of the
institutions mentioned therein, and also the financial condition
of their relatives or other persons legally chargeable with, their
maintenance and support, in order to determine, in each case,
the ability of any such person, or of his or her relatives or other
persons legally chargeable with his or her maintenance and sup-
port, to make payment, in whole or in part, for the maintenance
and support of such person while an inmate of such institution.
In making such investigation, the County Commissioners and the
Supervisors of City Charities shall require reports or state-
ments to be made to them by such relatives or other persons
upon such forms as may be prepared by the State Lunacy Com-
mission. If the County Commissioners or the Supervisors of
City Charities, as the case may be, shall: determine that such
person shall be required to pay -for his or her maintenance and
support while in such institution, or that his or her relatives or
other persons legally chargeable with his or her maintenance
and support shall be required to pay for the same, then, before
any such person shall be admitted into such institution, they
shall make and issue an order to that effect, and shall specify
therein the amount of such payments so to be made, which shall
not exceed the rate of twenty dollars per month, and the times
when the same are to be made, and shall have the power to re-
quire the relatives of any such person or others legally charge-
able with his or her maintenance and support, to enter into
appropriate and binding agreements with respect to the making
of such payments, and from time to time may modify or change
the terms thereof, as circumstances may justify.

All such payments shall be made to and collected by the
County Treasurer or the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore,
as the cases may be, who shall account for and pay over the same
to the State Treasurer on or before the first days of January,
April, July and October in each and every year, and at the
same time they shall report to the State Treasurer the name of