1440                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 622

pay 100% of current costs for the hospital care of those persons.
The amount to be placed on deposit with the State Department of
Health for each fiscal year will be that amount specified for the
respective political subdivisions in estimates to be furnished to the
political subdivisions by the State Department of Health during the
month of December immediately preceding the beginning of the fiscal
year concerned. Those estimates will be based on the same considera-
tions as those which are incorporated in the calculations in the
Governor's recommended budget. Following the close of the fiscal
year for which the deposit is made, the State Department of Health
shall make a final calculation of the exact amount required for the
county to satisfy the provisions of this subsection. If that amount
exceeds the amount which the political subdivision had placed on
deposit, the additional local requirement will be reported to the
political subdivision concerned, and the political subdivision shall
appropriate and forward that amount to the State Department of
Health within eighteen (18) months after receipt of the report. If
the final calculation shows that the amount placed on deposit was
in excess of the required amount to satisfy this subsection, the State
Department of Health will credit the differences to each subdivision
concerned in the estimates it forwards to each political subdivision
in December of each year, as provided at the outset of this sub-
section.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the 1970 fiscal year,
each county and Baltimore City shall place on deposit with the State
Department of Health, funds to permit the State Department of
Health to pay 100% of current costs for the hospital care of indigent
and medically indigent persons. The minimum local appropriations
for this purpose are:

(1)  Baltimore  City $2,236,923

(2)  Allegany                                                        106,953

(3)  Anne Arundel                                                139,480

(4)   Baltimore  County 199,848

(5)  Calvert                                                            32,527

(6)  Caroline                                                          22,328

(7)  Carroll                          &n