1640 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 685

provided for in this section and in Sections 6 and 8 of this
Article may be made by the Superintendent of any institution
for the care of the insane in which such person may be con-
lined pending trial, instead of by the said Department of Men-
tal Hygiene, and such Superintendent shall within three weeks
of the time when such person shall have been admitted to such
institution make his report in writing to the court or justice
of the peace before whom such charge shall then be pending at
the time of such report, and such further proceedings shall
then be had as if such report had been made by the said
Department of Mental Hygiene.

Nothing in this section shall apply to the duties of the
Department of Welfare of the City of Baltimore.

16. Whenever the Department is ordered by a court to
inquire into the sanity of any person, under Sections 6 and 8
of this Article, the court shall allow a reasonable fee for
services to each examining physician, including the Commis-
sioner, who has helped to make such examination; and, in
addition, shall allow a sum of money sufficient to pay the
necessary expenses of the Department in making the exami-
nation, the sum or sums so allowed to be taxed as part of the
costs of the case and to be paid to the Department by the
county or city, as the case may be.

If the Department is ordered by the court at the instance
of the accused person under Section 6, the court may, in its
discretion, require such accused person, or his representative,
to furnish a bond conditioned to reimburse the county or
city, as the case may be, for the fees and expenses paid to the
Department. If the Department is ordered to make such
examination under the provisions of either Section 6 or 8,
and the accused person is found to be insane, then the estate
of such insane person shall be liable to the county or city,
as the case may be, for the amount of fees and expenses paid
to the Department. Any fees paid to the Department of
Mental Hygiene under this section shall be accounted for and
paid into the State Treasury.

19. The Department of Mental Hygiene is hereby vested
with full and plenary powers and charged with the duties
and functions of supervision of all matters relating to the
custody, cure and treatment of the insane; said Department
shall secure to the insane just and humane care and careful
and adequate treatment of their malady, or maladies, and
shall do and effectuate whatever may be feasible for the,
amelioration and improvement of their condition, and said
Department shall furthermore secure to the insane in this
State all their rights and privileges as involuntary wards of