236                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                         [CH. 69

board, care and treatment of such patient, and the remaining amount
required for the board, care and treatment of such insane shall be
paid from the Treasury of the State. The expense for the care,
board and treatment of all patients in the State [hospitals for the
insane and in Rosewood State Training School] institution under the
jurisdiction of the Department of Mental Hygiene shall be a charge
upon each county sending such patient or patients to [the State
hospitals for the insane and in Rosewood State Training School]
such institutions, as hereinafter provided. The Department of Mental
Hygiene shall credit the account of each county, for any patient,
with any amounts actually collected and received by the Department
from or for that patient, whether received from himself, his relatives,
others legally chargeable with his maintenance and support or others;
the credit allowed to the county in any one year, for any one patient,
not to exceed the amount paid by the county for that patient's main-
tenance and support. It shall be the duty of the Department of
Mental Hygiene to furnish to the county [treasurer] commissioners
or county council of each county, or the Department of Public Wel-
fare in Baltimore City, having patients in the State [hospitals for
the insane and in Rosewood State Training School] institutions under
the jurisdiction of the Department of Mental Hygiene a quarterly
statement giving the number of patients and the name of each patient
coming from and charged to such county, and the cost of mainte-
nance due from each county for such patient or patients. [The De-
partment of Mental Hygiene shall certify to the State Comptroller
on the first day of January, April, July and October of each year the
amount not previously certified to by it that is due the said hospitals
for the insane and Rosewood State Training School from the several
counties having patients chargeable thereto. The State Comptroller
shall thereupon notify the County Treasurer of each county so owing
of the amount thereof and charge the same to the said county, and]
The Board of County Commissioners or County Council of said
county shall levy a tax in said county for said amount and pay the
amount due the State [into the State Treasury] to the Department
of Mental Hygiene; and, should any county fail to levy a tax in said
county for said amount then due said State, and shall fail at the time
of levying other county taxes thereafter to levy the tax aforesaid to
amount sufficient to pay the indebtedness subsequently incurred,
it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to bring in the name of
the State an action against any county in the Circuit Court of said
county so failing aforesaid to enforce the levying of said tax for the
recovery of the amount due the State, as aforesaid. Upon the failure
of any county to levy such tax as aforesaid to an amount sufficient
to pay the amount [then] due the State, it shall be the duty of the
[State Comptroller] Department of Mental Hygiene to charge such
delinquent county with a penalty of interest at one per centum per
month upon the amount of indebtedness for each month until pay-
ment thereof and penalty thereon be paid. It shall be the duty of
the County Treasurer, upon the collection of the taxes herein required
to be levied, to pay [into the State Treasury] to the Department of

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