1436 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

shall be divided in three clases, one-third of whom shall go out of office
every two years; and the governor shall have power, in the case of any
vacancy occurring in any of said classes from death, resignation, removal
from State, failure to qualify within thirty days after the first day
of May, following their appointment, or from any cause whatever, to
appoint a person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies for the
balance of the term of said class.

1910, ch. 250, sec. 12 (p. 239).

57. The board of managers of the "Hospital for the Negro Insane
of Maryland," as named in section 55, are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to purchase a tract or tracts of land to
comply with the provisions and restrictions contained in section 54; and
upon which tract or tracts the said board of managers of the "Hospital
for the Negro Insane of Maryland" shall immediately proceed to the
erection, construction and equipment of suitable buildings to care for
such of the negro insane of the State of Maryland as may be sent and
duly committed to the said hospital, from time to time, in accordance
with the general provisions of the acts of the general assembly of Mary-
land, relative to the care and treatment of the insane of the State.*

1910, ch. 250, sec. 13 (p. 240).

58. All proper expense incurred by the said board of managers of
the "Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland" in having plans and
specifications made for the erection, construction and equipment of the
"Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland" shall be payable out of
the funds to be provided in the loan authorized by the act of 1910,
chapter 250.

New Buildings.

1910, ch. 250, sec. 8 (p. 237).

59. The respective board of managers of the Springfield State Hos-
pital at Sykesville, the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Catons-
ville, the Maryland Asylum and Training School for Feeble Minded
at Owings Mills, and the board of managers for the "Hospital
for the Negro Insane of Maryland," shall cause to be prepared
plans for such new building as they may deem necessary for the
accommodation and treatment of the insane persons now in the various
almshouses and other public institutions of the various counties of the
State and of Baltimore city; after said plans and specifications shall
have been duly accepted and approved by the respective boards of man-

*The act of 1910, ch. 250 (p. 234), provides for a loan of six hundred thousand
dollars, to be known as the Insane Hospital Loan, to be used for the erection of
additional buildings for various state institutions, and for the purchase of land
for a hospital for negro insane. The details of the loan are provided for and
a state tax of one per cent, directed to be levied to meet the interest and create
a sinking fund. See art. 31, sec. 14, et seq.