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sufficient to pay the amount due the State, it shall be the duty of the
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 payment 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
to the Department of 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 ac-
cording to the procedures in effect for such accounting. Whenever
the superintendent of any State 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 Department of Mental Hygiene that it is
claimed by them that such patient is not a proper charge 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 com-
missioners or county council of each of said counties to file such
proofs as they may have with the Department of Mental Hygiene
within thirty days from the time of such notification and thereupon
it shall be the duty of the Department of Mental Hygiene to investi-
gate 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 of such determination, and shall notify
the superintendent of the State [hospital for the insane or Rose-
wood State Training School] institution under the jurisdiction of the
Department of Mental Hygiene, and the counties aforesaid shall
thereafter treat and regard such patient as of the county according
to the determination of the Department of Mental Hygiene, and if
the 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.
The amount incurred by any county of this State, or by the State
for treatment and maintenance for any insane person in the State
institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of Mental Hy-
giene shall be a charge against the estate of such person as provided
in Sec. 5.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved February 16, 1959.

CHAPTER 33
(Senate Bill 114)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 37 (w) of
Article 87 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.