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consent of the Department of Welfare. No such person shall
be detained for more than three days after having given
notice of his or her desire and intention to leave such institu-
tion unless such person shall in the meantime have been
legally committed upon and after due notice to him or her
on the request of his or her relatives or friends, in accordance
with Section 34 of this article regulating the commitment and
detention of the insane in hospitals and asylums; nor shall
any person be received or detained as a voluntary patient
whose mental condition is such, or becomes such, that such
person cannot comprehend the act of voluntary commitment,
or be able to request his or her discharge, or give continuous
assent to detention. Every such voluntary patient so ad-
mitted shall be reported to the Department of Mental Hygiene
as provided in cases legally committed, and shall be further
reported to the Department of Mental Hygiene with a state-
ment of the mental condition of said person at the end of each
three months, of said patient's residence in the institution to
which he or she has requested admission, and when discharged
therefrom, a copy of this section shall be read or exhibited to
every person requesting admission to any institution in
accordance with its provisions.

42. The Department of Mental Hygiene shall divide the
State of Maryland into such number of hospital districts
which, in its discretion, the Department may deem advisable
for the proper care and custody of the insane. Whenever the
Department of Mental Hygiene shall deem it necessary to
care more conveniently for the insane in the various hospitals,
it may change the limits of such hospital districts. The De-
partment shall notify the county commissioners of each
county of the limits of the various districts.

47. Whenever the Board of Correction may deem it neces-
sary it may request the Department of Mental Hygiene to
examine and pass upon the mental condition of the convicts
confined in the Penitentiary or House of Correction and if
the convict or convicts so examined be adjudged insane or
feeble-minded by said Department, and the removal of such
convict or convicts be deemed advisable said Department shall
order said Board of Correction to remove such insane or
feeble-minded convict or convicts to some insane asylum
within the State to be designated in such order of removal.
All the expense incurred in the removal of such insane or
feeble-minded convict or convicts shall be borne by said Board
of Correction and the maintenance in such asylum of such
insane or feeble-minded convict or convicts shall be met in
the manner provided in this Article for other insane, lunatic
or feeble-minded persons. If at any time after being removed