The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-05-04
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CHAPTER 45O.
AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION II OF
ARTICLE "A OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC
GENERAL LAWS AND TO RE-ENACT
THE SAME WITH AMENDMENTS.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Section IL of
Article Al Of the Code of Public General Laws,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
IL. They shall provide accommodation for
at least four hundred pauper lunatics of this
State, who may be sent to the said hospital
for curative treatment; which number shall
be from time to time apporioned 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 honey 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 Jam
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 are hereby authorized and required
to lew annually upon the assessable property
of said county to be collected in the same
manner as other taxes, now are or shall here
after be collected; and the treasurer OF said
county, and il there be no treasurer the
County Commissioners 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 installmentso ne-halfon 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 several counties for the support OF their
insane paupers in said hospital for the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-four. and all ar
rearages due by them on said account to
January l, 1894, shall be estimated and de-
termined by the managers OF said hospital In
like manner. and said estimate sent to the
County Commissioners 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 ascer-
tanned to be due by their counties respective
ly, and the Treasurer of said county, and if
there be no Treasurer. the County Commits
sioners of said county shall pay one-half OF
the same to the Comptroller on the first day
of October. and the other half on the thirty
first day of December in said year. out Of the
first monies 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 manner as pro-
vided for its quota. The Board of Managers
OF said hos tai are hereby empowered and
authorized to enforce the provisions of this
section by writs of mandamus or to collect
the monies 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