Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-06
miscellaneous Advertisements.
LOCAL LAW.
CHAPTER 967.

article of the Code of Public Local
Laws, entitled "Allegany County to be
sub-ttlcd Insane Aslum," snd tie vest
in the County Commissioners OF said
county additional powers relating to the
care of insane paupe 5.
SECTION l. Be il enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland That the follow
ing new sections be and are hereby added
TO the first article of the Code of Public
Local Laws, entitled "Allegany County"
to be sub.titlcd "Insane Asylum and to
read as follows, viz;
SEC. -. The County Commissioners of
said county are hereby authorized to
build, erect and maintain an Insane Asy-
lum in said county for the safe keeping
and treatment of insane paupers necessary
to he maintained at the expense OF said
! county, and of any other insane persons
who may be received therein by order OF
said commissioners.
SEC. -. Said County Commissioners
shall have full power TO contract for the
| purchase of suitable land on which to erect
the same, and to take and receive deed of
conveyance therefor, and to enter into n
contract, or contracts, for the erection of n
suitable building, or buildings, for said
purpose, and for the purchase OF materials
| for the same, and for the doing OF all otter
acts necessary or proper to be done in car
| rying out said design.
Sec. -. After the erection of said asy-
| lum said commissioners shall have full
power to appoint such managers, keepers,
superintendent and physicians therefor as
may DC deemed necessary, and to prescribe
rules for the government thereof, and to
enter into agreement for the reception of
| inmates thereof, and to fix and establish
| from time tC time rates at which inmates,
not dependent on SAID county, shall be re-
ccived, and to fix the duties and compen-
sa'ion of all employees decessary to carry
on satd asylum.
SEC -. After the erection of said asy-
| lum, al persons who have been heretofore
| determined in the Circuit Court for Ale
| ganv county to be insane paupers, end
! who shall be at the time said asylum is
rcndy for use inmates of other institutions
| at the expense of said comfy, shall be re-
moAed TO asylum, and thereafter, whenever
any persoa Shall be found to be an insane
pauper amp dependent of said county, by
| inuuislton in the Circuit Court thereof,
said court shall commit said person to said
ASYLUM, and none other unless the County
Commissioners shall consent to his being
sent 10 some Other institution
Sec. -. Said County Commissioners are
hereby authorized to levy such sum an
nually upon the taxable property in said
| county as may be necessary to meet the
running expenses of said asylum over and
above its revenues, if any such deficiency
be found to exist.
See. -. For the purpose of raising the
necessary funds to purchase the land and
erect the building or buildings, provided
for in the foregoing sections the commits
sioners OF said cjnnty are hereby author
lied to issue coupon bonds of said county
in denominations of not less Than one
hvndrCd nor more than five hundred dol
lars and to an amount not exceeding thirty
thousand dollars, said bonds to bear in
terest at the rate of six per cent. per an
nun, and to mature and fall due as follows,
viz: five thousand dollars thereof mt the
| end of five years from the date OF Issuing
the same, and five thousand dollars at the
end of each year thereafter until all are
| due; and said commissioners are authorlz-
ed TO dispose of said bonds at not less than
par. and to devote the proceeds thereof to
| the purposes above mentioned; and the
commissioners shall levy annually on tie
taxable property in said County sum OF
money sufficient to pay the interest on said
| bonds, and shall levy on the taxable Prop
crty of said county a sum OF money sufll-
Cicnt to pay the principal OF said bonds
when and as they mature, and the bonds
| issued under the provisions OF this section
shall not be liable to be taxed for county
or municipal purposes.
| SEC @ And be in enacted, That Mt the
next election for members of the House of
Representatives held in this State, the
question of whether or not the asylum
mentioned il the preceding subsection
| shall he erected, shall hG submitted to the
qualified voters Of Alcgany county, and
that in voting upon said question the
| words "For the Insane Asylum" or
| against the Insane Asylum" or words
| equivalent thereto, may be written or
prnied ON me ballots voted; aud Tor tic
pnrpGsc of determining whether or not a
majority of the legal votes voting upon
said quest on are in favor Of erecting said
asylum, the judges of election in sad
county shall count and cast up the NUM-
her of votes in thsir respective districts
iurand against the same, and shall keep
said count in separate book from the
cuunt of the vote for Representatives in
Congress, and The return judges, when
ihcy meet to count up the votes cast for
Rci rescnta,iyes, shall also count up and
ascertain; in II seperate book, the vote
upon said question, and shall make up n
certificate for the County Commissioners
of said county, showing she number of
votes cast in the several election districts
far md a. ,ruitlyi said tnpuGlIrp and said GER