for the food of man, or any wine, vinegar, spirits, malt liquors, or other liquor intended for food or dietetic purposes, knowing the same to be adulterated or in any way sophisticated, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not longer than one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and the article so adulterated shall be forfeited and destroyed or so disposed of as to prevent it from being exposed for sale or used for the food of man. 1890, ch. 604. 83. If any person shall sell or offer for sale any kind of diseased, corrupted or unwholesome provisions such as poultry, game, flesh, or preparations of flesh, fruits, vegetables, bread, flour, meal, milk or other things intended to be used for human food, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction, and the unwholesome provisions offered or exposed for sale shall be forfeited and destroyed or so disposed of as to prevent their being used for food; provided, that nothing in this section shall apply to the shippers or consigners of green fruits or vegatables that may be spoiled in transitu. Ibid. 84. The State board of health shall be charged with the duty of rendering effective the provisions of this sub-title, and shall take such steps and to do such things as the board may deem necessary, to detect and publicly expose any adulteration or corruption of all articles sold or liquid intended or offered for sale as food or drink; and shall, when deemed necessary, have the suspected article subjected to chemical or other scientific examination in order to establish more clearly the fact and degree of adulteraation. Ibid. 85. Whenever the said board of health, or its proper officer, shall be satisfied that any article of food, condiment or drink has been adulterated, or is otherwise unsound or unwholesome, the said board, or its proper officer, shall forbid the sale or disposal of such article for human food and order it to be destroyed or disposed of so as to prevent it from being exposed for sale or used for the food of man; and the person or persons to whom the same belongs, or did belong at the time of exposure for sale, or in whose possession, or on whose premises the same was found, refusing or neglecting to destroy or otherwise dispose of such unsound or unwholesome article as directed, shall be liable to the penalty imposed under the provisions of section 83. 1890, ch. 604. 86. The said State board of health, or its proper officer, or any inspector or inspectors appointed by said board, are empowered at all reasonable times to inspect and examine any live ani mal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruits, vegetables, bread, milk, wine, spirits, malt or other liquors or things exposed for sale, or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale and intended for the food of man, the proof that the same was not exposed or deposited for any such purpose, or was not intended for the food of man, resting with the party charged; and if such animal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, , fish, fruits, vegetables, bread, milk or other things appear to the said board, or its proper officer, or inspector, to be diseased or unsound or unwholesome and unfit for the food of man, the said board, or its proper officer, shall issue an order preventing the sale of such article or articles for human food, and any person neglecting or refusing to obey such an order shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine in any sum not less than fifty dollars, and in default of the payment thereof, by imprisonment in the public jail not more than six months. Ibid. 87. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of this State to appear for the people and to attend to the prosecution of all complaints under this sub-title in all the courts of their respective counties or the city of Baltimore as the case may be. Ibid. 88. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby annually appropriated for defraying the expenses of chemical and scientific examination of suspected articles of food or drink, for salary of inspectors and other necessary expenses, to be paid by the treasurer of the State on the warrant of the comptroller, at such times and in such sums as the board may direct. ARTICLE XLIV. HOSPITAL-MARYLAND. 11. Provision for accommodation of | Second Hospital for the Insane. 400 pauper lunatics, in said 16. Board of managers; term of hospital. Amount to be paid by each county for the care of its insane paupers; how ascertained, etc. Authority of board of managers of said hospital to enforce these provisions. office and powers of such board. 20. Commitments to said hospital. 1894, ch. 450. 11. 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 apportioned by them among the several counties and the city of Baltimore, according to the population as ascertained 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 January 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 levy annually upon the assessable property of said county, to be collected in the same manner as other taxes now or shall hereafter be collected; and the treasurer of said county, and if 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 instalments, one 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 instalments, 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 arrearages due by them on said accounts to January 1, 1894, shall be estimated and determined 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 ascertained to be due by their counties, respectively; and the treasurer of said county, and if there be no treasurer, the county commissioners 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 moneys coming into their hands from the levy of said year; and said comptroller, immediately on receipt of any instalments, 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 provided for its quota. The board of managers of said hospital are hereby empowered and authorized to enforce the provisions of this section by writs of mandamus, or to collect the moneys 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, as the case may be, shall not have forwarded it to the comptroller as required herein. Second Hospital for the Insane. 1894, ch. 231. 16. There shall be established in this State, accessible by railroad or water transportation, an institution to be called the "Second Hospital for the Insane of the State of Maryland," which shall be under the control of the board of managers hereinafter provided for. The said board of managers shall consist of the Governor, for the time being, ex officio, State treasurer, comptroller of the treasury and six other persons, who shall be appointed by the Governor, as follows: Two to serve for the term of six years, two to serve for the term of four years and two to serve for the term of two years each, from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; and the board so created shall constitute a body corporate under the title of the "Board of Managers of the Second Hospital for the Insane of the State of Maryland," and shall have power to make such by-laws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as they may deem necessary and proper for the public welfare and the best interests of the institution and its inmates, and shall also have power to appoint the necessary officers and agents, who shall be removable at their pleasure, and shall make an annual report of their proceedings to the Governor of the State, who shall submit the same, with such recommendations as he may deem proper, to the General Assembly at its next session thereafter. Ibid. 17. Upon expiration of each of the terms of office of said board of managers the Governor shall, by and with the advice. and consent of the Senate, appoint two persons, residents of this State, for the term of six years from the first day of May next ensuing their appointment, until their successors are qualified, and shall appoint from time to time during the continuance of said institution, as said terms expire, two persons, residents as aforesaid, for a full term of six years, so that the board of managers shall be divided into three classes, one-third of whom shall go out of office at the end of every two years; and the Governor |