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to Section 101 of the Temporary Unemployment Compensation Act
of 1958, as amended; provided, that such annual part repayment
process shall continue only until the total amount of the funds
advanced by the Federal Government for the payment of such benefit
costs has been repaid in full; and provided further that if the
Executive Director of the Department of Employment Security
determines that the amount of the final annual part repayment, if
determined by the United States Secretary of Labor pursuant to
Section 3302(c)(2) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, as
amended, or as certified by the United States Secretary of Labor,
upon request for such estimate made BY the Governor, would exceed
or exceeds, whichever is applicable, the balance of the benefit pay-
ments of temporary unemployment compensation made pursuant to
Section 101 of the Temporary Unemployment Compensation Act of
1958 which have not yet been repaid to the Federal Government, then
the amount of the withdrawal and repayment as hereinbefore
authorized for the restoration of such benefit costs shall not exceed
the amount of such balance.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1964.

Approved April 7, 1964.

CHAPTER 94
(Senate Bill 22)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 37 of
Article 59 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Lunatics and Insane", subtitle "Department of Mental Hy-
giene," to change the minimum period of time a person is required
to stay in a mental hospital on a voluntary commitment, and ex-
tending these provisions to alcoholics. TO PROVIDE FOR VOL-
UNTARY COMMITMENT OF ALCOHOLICS TO INSTITU-
TIONS FOR CARE AND TREATMENT, TO PROVIDE FOR
THE MINIMUM PERIOD OF STAY THEREIN AND FOR THE
REFUSAL OF CERTAIN PERSONS PRESENTING THEM-
SELVES FOR VOLUNTARY COMMITMENT.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 37 of Article 59 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Lunatics and Insane", subtitle "Department
of Mental Hygiene", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

37.

The medical superintendent or chief officer of any institution, hos-
pital, home or retreat for the insane or the alcoholic may receive and
detain therein for purposes of care and treatment any person who is
desirous of submitting himself for treatment and makes application
therefor in writing, at the expense of such person, or the expense of
his relatives or friends, or of the county in which such person resides
upon the consent of the county commissioners thereof, or of the City