1636 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 685

Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and a Superintendent
for each State institution caring for or treating persons
of unsound mind, abolishing the Boards of Managers or
other similar governing boards of said institutions, and re-
vising generally the laws relating to "Lunatics and In-
sane".

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 4 of Article 59 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition and 1947 Supplement), title "Luna-
tics and Insane", sub-title "Lunatic or Insane Paupers";
Sections 6, 8 and 10 of said Article and title, sub-title "In-
sanity as a Defense in Criminal Cases"; and Sections 16,
19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 33, -38, 40, 42, 47, 49 and 50 of said
Article and title, sub-title "Board of Mental Hygiene", be
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

4. The County Commissioners or the Department of Welfare
of Baltimore City, as the case may be, shall investigate the
financial condition of all persons hereafter to be committed
under the provisions of the preceding sections of this Article
to any of the institutions mentioned therein or received by
the Rosewood State Training School, and also the financial
conditions of their relatives or other persons legally charge-
able with their maintenance and support, in order to deter-
mine, in each case, the ability of any such person, or of his
or her relatives or other persons legally chargeable with
his or her maintenance or support, to make payment, in
whole or in part, for the maintenance and support of such
person while an inmate of such institution. In making such
investigation, the County Commissioners and the Depart-
ment of Welfare of Baltimore City shall require reports
of statements to be made to them by such relatives or
other persons upon such forms as may be prepared by the
Department of Mental Hygiene. If the County Commis-
sioners or the Department of v Welfare of Baltimore City,
as the case may be, shall determine that such person shall
be required to pay for his or her maintenance and sup-
port while in such institution, or that his or her relatives or
other persons legally chargeable with his or her maintenance
and support shall be required to pay for the same, then, before
any such person shall be admitted into such institution, they
shall make and issue an order to that effect, and shall specify
therein the amount of such payments so to be made, and the
times when the same are to be made, and shall have the power
to require the relatives of any such person or others legally
chargeable with his or her maintenance and support, to enter