606 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 351

herein specified pay .into the State Treasury the sum of one
hundred and twenty-five ($125.00) for the board, care and
treatment of such patient, and the remaining amount required
for the board, care and treatment of such insane shall be paid
from the Treasury of the State. The expense for the care,
board and treatment of all patients in the State hospitals for
the insane shall be a charge upon each county sending such
patient or patients to the State hospitals for the insane as
hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the superintend-
ent to furnish to the county treasurer of each county having
patients in the State hospitals for the insane a quarterly
statement giving the number of patients and the name of each
patient coming from and charged to such county, and the
cost of maintenance due from each county for such patient or
patients. The superintendent of each State hospital for the
insane shall certify to the State comptroller on the first day
of January, April, July and October of each year the amount
not previously certified to by him that is due the said hospitals
for the insane from the several counties having patients
chargeable thereto, and said comptroller shall pass the same
to the credit of the several State hospitals for the insane. The
State comptroller shall thereupon notify the county treasurer
of each county so owing of the amount thereof and charge the
same to the said county, and the Board of County Commission-
ers of said county shall levy a tax in said, county for said
amount and pay the amount due the State into the State
treasury; and, should any county fail to levy a tax iu said
county for said amount then due said State, and shall fail at
the time of levying other county taxes thereafter to levy the
tax aforesaid to amount sufficient to pay the indebtedness sub-
sequently incurred, it shall be the duty of the attorney gen-
eral to bring in the name of the State an action against any
county in the Circuit Court of such county so failing afore-
said to enforce the levying of said tax for the recovery of the
amount due the State, as aforesaid. Upon the failure of any
county to levy such tax as aforesaid to an amount sufficient to
pay the amount then due the State, it shall be the duty of the
State comptroller to charge such delinquent county with a
penalty of interest at one per centum per month upon the
amount of indebtedness for each month until payment there-
of and penalty thereon be paid. It shall be the duty of the
county treasurer, upon the collection of the taxes herein re-