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Session Laws, 1924
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102 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 53

ment, date of discharge or of death, as the case may be, cause
of death if inmate died at the County Home, whether or not
the inmate was previously committed there and, if so, how often
and for how long each time. A copy of the list shall be fur-
nished by the Superintendent to the County Commissioners
semi-annually on the first day of January and June of each
year and whenever they shall require.

41-OO. The Superintendent shall compel all of the inmates
of the County Home, if of sufficient ability, to work.

41PP. Upon complaint and due proof made by the Superin-
tendent to a Justice of the Peace of the County that any person
in the County Home has behaved in a disorderly manner or has
refused or neglected to obey any of the rules or regulations of
the County Home, the said Justice of the Peace may direct
such moderate and proper correction to be given to such of-
fenders as the nature of the case may require.

41QQ. Upon complaint made that any person from his dis-
orderly conduct gives disturbance to a neighborhood and is
likely to become chargeable to the County, any Justice of the
Peace, if, upon hearing he shall adjudge the complaint to be
well-founded, may commit such person to the County Home for
any time not exceeding three months, unless he shall find se-
curity, in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace, in any sum
not exceeding fifty dollars ($50. 00) for his good behavior for
the space of six months.

41RR. Any Justice of the Peace of the County or any per-
son authorized by him may apprehend and commit to the
County Home any rogues, vagrants, vagabonds, beggars and
other idle, dissolute and disorderly persons found loitering or
residing in the said County and having no visible means of sub-
sistence and following no trade or occupation, there to be kept
at hard labor for any period not exceeding three months and
the Superintendent shall receive and employ them accordingly.

41SS. The County Commissioners, as a body, may appoint
what poor, insane, feeble-minded, aged, crippled and others
who are or are likely to become public charges, shall be received
in the County Home; provided that any one Commissioner may,
during the interval between meetings of the County Commis-
sioners as a body, commit a poor, insane, feeble-minded, aged,
crippled or other person who is or is likely to become a public
charge, and he or she, as the case may be, shall be received into

 

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