1168 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 566
Training School for the Feeble-Minded under the provisions of
Section 46 of this Article, and still confined therein, to exercise
all of the powers conferred upon them by Section 46A of this
Article with respect to persons hereafter to be so sent thereto,
to the end that payment for the future maintenance and sup-
port of such persons while in such institution may be required,
made, collected and accounted for as in the case of persons here-
after to be sent thereto under the provisions of said Section 46A.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That a new Section be
and the same hereby is added to Article 59 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Lunatics and Insane, " the same to be
sub-titled "Liquor and Drugs, " to follow immediately after
Section 66 of said Article, to be known as Section 67, and to
read as follows:
LIQUOR AND DRUGS.
67. Any person or persons who shall knowingly sell, give,
send, procure, or purchase any spirituous or intoxicating liquor
or narcotic drugs to or for any inmate, patient, attendant or
employee of any State hospital for the insane, or of the Rose-
wood State Training School, or of any private institution for
the insane licensed by the State Lunacy Commission, unless
with the permission and consent of the superintendent or chief
medical officer of such hospital or institution, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each
offense, be fined not less than $10. 00 nor more than $100. 00
or imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than sixty
days, or both; and the Justices of the Peace of the respective
Counties of the State shall have concurrent jurisdiction over
such offense with the Circuit Court for their respective Coun-
ties, and the Justices of the Peace selected to sit at the re-
spective station-houses in the City of Baltimore shall have con-
current jurisdiction over such offenses with the Criminal Court
of Baltimore City.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts
or sections of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,
are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby respectively re-
pealed.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, in the year one thousand nine
hundred and sixteen.
Approved April 18th, 1916.
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