T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

A. Roberts, George Gale, Stephen J. Bradley,
Thomas J. McKaig, B. Goldsborough, Stephenson
Archer, W. V. Bouic, R. A. Marshall, G. C. M.
Roberts, J. R. W. Dunbar, C. Dickson, Jos. T.
Smith, N. J. B. Morgan, J. N. McJilton, J. W.
M. Williams, Stewart Brown, Charles Corkran,
Robert Leslie, Goldsborough S. Griffith, John Fou-
nerden, Charles J. Baker, John Kettlewell, Samuel
J. Mills, Dr. P. C. Williams, William Colton,
shall constitute the first board of trustees.

CHAP. 386.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said board
of trustees shall have power to receive and retain
all inebriates, who enter said Asylum either volun-
tarily or are there placed by the order of any court
or by the order of the committee, of any habitual
drunkard, or if such drunkard should be a minor,

Power to re-
ceive inebri-
ates.

by the order of his or her parent or guardian, and
the said board of trustees are authorised and em-
powered to employ all inebriates, who are received
into said Asylum in some useful occupation in or

Employment,

about the said Asylum, said inebriates shall have
all moneys accruing from their labor, after the ex-
penses of their support in said Asylum, shall have
been paid, which shall be sent to their families
monthly; if said inebriates have no families, it
shall be paid to him or her at their discharge from
said Asylum.

Moneys ac-
cruing from
labor — how
applied.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That whenever by
petition under oath any person shall be alleged to
be a drunkard, incapable of taking care of himself
or herself or his or her property, any Circuit court
of this State, and also the Superior court of Balti-
more city, shall have the power in its discretion on
such preliminary examination or inquiry as it may
think proper to make ex parte, to issue a warrant
to the sheriff of the county or city respectively
were such court may sit, to arrest and bring the
person so charged before such court, and it shall be
the duty of the sheriff to obey such warrant and
such court shall cause a jury of good and lawful
men to be summoned by the said sheriff to be em-
panelled forthwith, and shall charge said jury un-
der oath, to inquire in the presence of such person
whether he or she is a habitual drunkard, incapa-
ble of taking care of himself or herself, and the
proceeding in such case shall be like those now au-
thorised by law in cases of persons alleged to be lu-
natic or insane, and the rule of law and proceedings

Confinement
of habitual
drunkards —
voluntary or
compulsory.