1294 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 683

of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Luna-
tics and Insane," sub-title "The Lunacy Commission," and to
be known as Section 20-A, to follow immediately after Section
20, to read as follows:

20-A. That in any instance in which any person or persons
may now or hereafter be confined in any institution of this
State by virtue of being insane, or laboring under any mental
disorder who may have been so confined or committed to any
such institution by virtue of any of the provisions of this
Act, or any other instance, upon application to any of law
courts of the City of Baltimore, or of any of the Circuit Courts
of this State, said person or persons may on his or her own
behalf, or on behalf of any "other person for them, file a peti-
tion in said court, requesting said court that said person or
persons so confined be immediately brought before said court
to test said question of sanity or insanity or mental disorder
and said court is authorized and directed to forthwith empanel
a jury in the usual way, to summon witnesses and to hear evi-
dence, and said jury shall determine the question of the sanity
or insanity of said person, and whether or not said person is
laboring under any mental disorder, and if the jury determine
that said person or persons is insane or suffering from some
mental disorder, the said person shall be immediately remanded
to the institution in which confined; but if said jury shall
determine that said person or persons is sane, or is not labor-
ing under any mental disorder, such person shall be immedi-
ately released and discharged from custod)⁷.

Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 683.

AN ACT to further protect the fish of Washington County,
and to provide a non-resident license, and to prohibit gig-
ging in the waters of said county including the Potomac
river, and to provide a close season on certain fish.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That on and after the passage of this Act, it shall be
unlawful for any person not a resident of Washington County
to fish in any waters of said county, including the Potomac
River without first having obtained a license to do so from the
Clerk of Circuit Court of Washington County. Such license