1432 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

and shall notify the superintendent of the state hospital for the insane
and the state comptroller, and the counties aforesaid shall thereafter
treat and regard such patient as of the county according to the deter-
mination of the state comptroller, and if the state comptroller shall find
that such patient is not a proper charge against any county in the State,
such patient shall thereafter be regarded as a proper charge against the
State at large. The amount incurred by any county of this State for
treatment and maintenance of any insane persons in the state hospitals
for the insane shall be a charge against the estate of such person; pro-
vided, that the insane person has no heirs within the United States
dependent upon said estate for support; and provided further, that no
real property shall be sold for debt incurred for the treatment and
maintenance by any county during the life of the insane person; and
further provided, that no personal property shall be sold for said debt
within five years from the date of the sending of such insane person to
a state hospital for the insane, unless by order of the proper court,
where such property is liable to deteriorate in value during the time
above specified, and when sold as above the circuit court for the county
shall order the proceeds thereof to be safely invested for the benefit of
such insane person,

Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble-Minded.

1904, art. 59, sec. 39. 1888, ch. 183, sec. 1. 1894, ch. 562, secs. 1 and 4.

1906, ch. 362.

46. Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble-Minded, a
corporation duly incorporated by the act of 1888. chapter 183, under
the name of "The Visitors of the Asylum and Training School for the
Feeble-Minded of the State of Maryland," with the powers and duties
in said act specified and organized thereunder, shall receive, care for
and educate, free of charge, all idiotic, imbecile and feeble-minded per-
sons of this State whom the board of visitors shall consider proper sub-
jects to receive the benefit of said asylum and training school, who shall
present a certificate of the orphans' court or county commissioners of
the city or county in which such persons respectively reside, and they,
their parents or guardians are unable to pay for their maintenance and
education in whole or in part; and in case such persons, or any of them,
their parents or guardians, are able to pay for such maintenance and
education in part, then said visitors shall be at liberty to charge so
much as they shall find such persons, their parents or guardians are
severally able to pay towards such maintenance and education; but
where such persons, their parents or guardians, are able to pay in full,
the said visitors are permitted to charge such reasonable amount as will
cover the expense for the maintenance and education of each person
so able to pay; and said visitors shall also be authorized to receive feeble-
minded children from other States and the District of Columbia, when
there is ample room in said institution for the same, upon such terms
and conditions as the board of visitors shall approve; and all moneys