THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR                           237

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MENTAL HYGIENE THE AMOUNT DUE AND OWING FROM
HIS COUNTY QUARTERLY ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY,
APRIL, JULY AND OCTOBER OF EACH YEAR. ALL MONEY
COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE
FROM BALTIMORE CITY OR THE COUNTIES UNDER THIS
SECTION SHALL BE ACCOUNTED FOR AND PAID INTO THE
STATE TREASURY ACCORDING TO THE PROCEDURES IN
EFFECT FOR SUCH ACCOUNTING. WHENEVER THE SUPER-
INTENDent of any State [hospital for the insane and Rosewood State
Training School] institution under the jurisdiction of the Department
of Mental Hygiene has held and treated a patient as from one county,
and the County Commissioners or County Council of such county
make claim that such patient is not a proper charge against the said
county, and such County Commissioners or County Council shall
notify the [State Comptroller] Department of Mental Hygiene that
it is claimed by them that such patient is not a proper charge against
against their county, and shall claim that the said patient is a proper
charge against some other county, it shall be the duty of the County
Commissioners or County Council of each of said counties to file
such proofs as they may have with the [State Comptroller] Depart-
ment of Mental Hygiene within thirty days from the time of such
notification and thereupon it shall be the duty of the [State Comp-
troller] Department of Mental Hygiene to investigate the question
of the residence of such patient and to determine of what county
said patient is a proper charge, and shall thereupon notify each of
said counties [and the Department of Mental Hygiene] of such
determination, and shall notify the superintendent of the State
hospital for the insane or Rosewood State Training School, and the
counties aforesaid shall thereafter treat and regard such patient as
of the county according to the determination of the [State Comp-
troller] Department of Mental Hygiene, and if the [State Comp-
troller] Department of Mental Hygiene shall find that such patient
is not a proper charge against any county of the State, such patient
shall thereafter be regarded as a proper charge against the State
[at Large]. The amount incurred by any county of this State, or by
the State for treatment and maintenance for any insane person in
the State [hospitals for the insane and Rosewood State Training
School] institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of
Mental Hygiene shall be a charge against the estate of such person
as provided in Section 5.

ARTICLE 16

45. When such petition is filed, any judge of the circuit court re-
ferred to in Section 44, if satisfied from examination that the facts
set forth in the petition are true, and that the said drunkard has
been a resident of the county or of Baltimore city for six months
next preceding the application, and that such drunkard of his own
free will desires to take such treatment, shall send such habitual
drunkard to some institution for the cure of drunkenness; provided,
said institution is located in the State of Maryland, and that the
managers of such institution will agree to treat such patient for a
[sum of] cost to the county of a sum not to exceed one hundred and
twenty-five dollars per annum; but such court shall not be compelled
to send such habitual drunkard to any institution making a lower
id than the sum herein specified, unless in their judgment the best