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41. Whenever in the opinion of any medical superintendent
or chief medical officer of any institution, hospital, asylum,
home or retreat for the insane it may be for the benefit of any
patient to grant such patient leave of absence or parole, on
trial, such parole may be granted for a period not exceeding
six months, or such further period or periods for which said
parole may be renewed at the option of the medical superin-
tendent or chief officer, upon application in writing, endorsed
by the relatives, friends or other persons at whose instance the
said patient was first committed, and who shall obligate them-
selves to give him or her proper care during the period of such
parole or any renewal or renewals thereof. Any such patient
may be returned by his friends or brought back by the duly
designated officers of the institution from which he has been
paroled at or before the expiration of the period of parole, as
provided for the return of patients who have escaped from in-
stitutions, asylums, hospitals, homes or retreats for the insane
within this State.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That two new Sections
be and the same hereby are added to Article 59 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, title "Lunatics and Insane, " sub-title
"Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble-Minded, "
the same to follow immediately after Section 46 of said Article
and sub-title, to be known respectively as Sections 46A and 46B,
and to read as follows:

46A. The Orphans' Court or County Commissioners of the
City or County in which idiotic, imbecile or feeble-minded per-
sons may reside who shall hereafter be received into the Mary-
land Asylum and Training School for the Feeble-Minded under
the provisions of Section 46 of this Article, shall have full
power and authority and it shall be their duty to exercise, with
respect to such persons, all the powers conferred and the duties
imposed upon the County Commissioners and the Supervisors
of City Charities by Section 3A of this Act, to the end that
payment for the maintenance and support of- such idiotic, im-
becile or feeble-minded persons, while in said Maryland Asylum
and Training School for the Feeble-Minded, may be required,
made, collected, and accounted for as in the case of persons em-
braced within the provisions of said Section 3A.

46B. Such Orphans' Court or County Commissioners, as the
case may be, shall have full power and authority, in the case
of all persons heretofore sent to the Maryland Asylum and