The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-19
CHAPTER 45o.


An Act to repeal Section II of Article A Of
the Code of Public General Laws and to
enact the same with amendments.
SECTION l. BE ii enacted by The General
assembly Of Maryland, That Section IL, of
Article A of the Code of Public General
Laws, be and the same is hereby repealed and
ret enacted so as TO read as follows:
IL. They shall provide accommodation for
at least four hundred panper lunatics of this
State, who may be sent to the said hospital
for curative treatment; which number shall
be from time to time apportioned by them
among the several counties and the City of
Baltimore, according to the population as as.
certained by the preceding census. The sum
of money to be paid by the several counties
respectively for the support and care of their
insane paupers shall be annually estimated
and determined by the Board of Managers of
said hospital, who shall report to the County
Commissioners of each county the amount so
due by it not later than the tenth day of Jan
uary in each year, and such estimate shall be
upon the basis of the number of patients in
said hospital from said county of the first day
of each year at the rate of one hundred and
fifty dollars per capita per annum, and the
money SO ascertained to be due by each county,
the County Commissioners of said county
hereby authorized and required to levy annu-
ally upon the assessable property of said
county to be collected in the same manner as
other taxes now are or shall hereafter be
collected; and the treasurer of said county,
and if there be no treasurer the County Com
mlssloners of said county, is and are hereby
authorized and directed to pay said sum Of
money to the Comptroller of the State in two
equal installments e-half on the thirty first
day of December, and the other half on the
thirtieth day of September in each year, and
said Comptroller shall Immediately upon the
receipt of any of said installments pay over
the same to the Board of Managers of said
hospital. The money required from the sew
eral counties for the support of their insane
paupers in said hospital for the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, and all arrearages
due by them on said account to January l,
1894, shall be estimated and determined by
the managers of said hospital in like manner,
and said estimate sent to the County Com
missioners of each county not later than the
fifteenth day of April in said year, and the
County Commissioners of each county shall
levy upon its assessable property in said year
the amount of money so ascertained to be due
by their counties respectively, and the Treas
urer of said county, and if there no be Treas
urer the County Commissioners of said county
shall pay one-half of the same to the Comp
troller on the first day October, and the other
half on the thirty first of December in said
year, out of the first moneys coming into their
hands from the levy of said year, and said
Comptroller Immediately on receipt of any
installments shall pay over the same to said
Board of Managers. The expenses of any
patients in said hospital from any county in
excess of its quota as herein provided shall be
ascertained levied and paid for in like man
ner as provided for its quota. The Board of
Managers of said hospital are hereby empow
cred and authorized to enforce the provisions
Of this section by writs of mandamus or to
collect the money SO ascertained by them
to be due and payable in any other way
authorized by law, and may bring suit upon
the bond of the Treasurer of any county, and
if there be no Treasurer, may bring suit
against the County Commissioners of said
county in case the moneys so due by said
county shall have been paid TO said Treasurer
or County Commissioners. and he or they
the case may be shall not have forwarded it
to the Comptroller rs required herein.
SEC. g And be ii further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect on and after the
date of its passage.
Approved April G, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES Fl. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session,
1894. j. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates