dollars, and any member or officer may, at election, take such amount either in stationery or money, or of both, to said amount. Passed and approved February 26, 1868. NOTE.-1868, c. 408 amends 1868 c. 70 by adding a section that it take effect from the day of its passage. 1868, c. 408 was approved March 30, 1868. See Const. 1867, Art. 2, sec. 18, and Art. 3, secs. 30 and 31. See 1868, c. 61 under Art. LXIX, relating to officers of General Assembly. 1868, c. 352. Insane or lunatic convicts. ARTICLE XLII. Governor. 25. Insane or lunatic convicts. 1868, c. 352 adds the following section to this article: SEC. 25. Upon the recommendation of the board of directors of the Maryland Penitentiary, the governor may remove any insane or lunatic convict confined in the penitentiary, and provide for the support, care and safe keeping of such convict in the Maryland Hospital, or any state institution for the insane, and the expense thus incurred shall be defrayed by the board of directors of the penitentiary, out of the funds arising from or appropriated for that institution. In force and approved March 30, 1868. ARTICLE XLIV. Hospital-Maryland. 1868, c. 58 repeals 1864, c. 129 [Sup. 127] entitled an act to add additional sections to the forty-fourth article of the Code of Public General Laws, title Maryland Hospital, and prescribing an additional oath to be taken by the president, vice president and visitors of the said hospital. In force and approved February 26, 1868. 1868, c. 275 recites that whereas, the act of incorporation of the Maryland Hospital appointed eleven visitors for Baltimore city and one visitor for each county then constituted; and whereas the said act authorized the board to fill all vacancies but did not authorize them to make original appointments for new counties; and whereas the county of Wicomico has been formed since the said act of incorporation, therefore it enacts, that Dr. Francis M. Slemons of Wicomico county be and he is hereby appointed a visitor of the Maryland Hospital for said county, and that to any vacancy which may happen in said board of visitors by death, resignation or other disqualification, his successor shall be appointed as provided for in the original act of incorporation. In force and approved March 30, 1868. 1868, c. 246 is an act to aid in the establishment of a hospital, in connection with the Washington University of Baltimore. It appropriates $10,000 for that purpose, and $2,500 annually, for sustaining the hospital. 1868, c. 117 repeals sections first and second of the act of 1862, c. 234 entitled an act to amend an act to provide for the erection of a hospital for the insane of this state, and sections fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth of the act of 1864, c. 248, entitled an act for the government of the Insane Asylum, and to regulate admissions thereto, and enacts sections in lieu thereof. ARTICLE XLVI. Juebriates. 1868, c. 264, entitled an act to authorize the commissioners of the Insane Hospital at Catonsville to receive inebriates as patients until the hospital for inebriates proper shall be completed, enacts that the commissioners of the Insane Hospital at Catonsville be and they are hereby authorized to receive inebriates as patients in said hospital, subject to the same charges and conditions as other patients until the hospital for inebriates proper shall be completed. In force and approved March 30, 1868. 1868, c. 437, entitled an act to authorize and empower the president and directors of the Maryland Insane Asylum to convey certain land to the Maryland Inebriate Asylum for the uses of said institution, enacts that the president and directors of the Maryland Insane Asylum be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to grant and convey unto the Maryland Inebriate Asylum, for the proper uses of said institution, and the erection thereon of a suitable building or buildings, such portion of the farm now owned by the Maryland Insane Asylum, not exceeding fifty acres, as may in their judgment be spared without injury to the interests of said asylum. In force and approved March 30, 1868. ARTICLE XLVII. Juheritance. DESCENTS. 30. Illegitimate children. DESCENTS. 1868, c. 199 repeals section 30 and re-enacts the same as follows: 1868, c. 199. Illegitmate children. SEC. 30. The illegitimate child or children of any female, and the issue of any such illegitimate child or children shall be able and capable in law to take and inherit both real and personal estate from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each other, as the case may be, and where such illegitimate child or children shall die, leaving no descendants, or brothers or sisters, or the descendants of such brothers and sisters, then and in that case, the mother of such illegitimate child or children, if living, shall inherit both real and personal estate from such illegitimate child or children, and if the mother be dead, then and in that case, the heirs at law of the mother shall inherit the real and personal estate of such illegitimate child or children in like manner as if such illegitimate child or children had been in lawful wedlock. In force and approved March 28, 1868. NOTE.-Public General Laws, Art. 93, sec. 135 is identical with the former sec. 30 of this article and should be repealed to conform to 1868, c. 199. The word "born" is omitted in 1868, c. 199 in last line, as above. ARTICLE L. Juries. SELECTING, DRAWING AND SUMMONING JURORS IN THE COUNTIES. 20. Duties of circuit judges: selection from lists: panel: certificate. SELECTING, DRAWING AND SUMMONING JURORS IN THE COUNTIES. 1868, c. 316 repeals 1867, c. 329, s. 2, [Sup. 136,] and re-enacts the same to read as follows. Duties of cir SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of the judges of the 1868, c. 316, s. 2. circuit courts for each of the counties, at any time cuit judges. after the regular term of said courts, at which jurors are required to attend, has adjourned, but not less than fifteen days before the commencement of the next succeeding term at which jurors are required to attend, in the presence of such practising members of the bar of said court, as shall think proper to attend, notice of the time and place having been first given to said bar through the criers of said courts, to proceed lists. to select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of Selection from the county commissioners, provided for in the first scetion of this act, and from the poll books of the several election districts of said counties, that shall be returned and filed in the clerk's office of said courts, after any general election that may be last held previous to such selection, a panel to consist of the names Panel. of five hundred persons in the county of Baltimore, of two hundred persons in the several counties of Washington, Montgomery, Allegany, Carroll, Frederick, Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Harford, Cecil, Dorchester, Worcester and Somerset, and of one hundred and fifty persons in the several counties of Howard, Charles, Calvert, St. Mary's, Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline and Talbot, to be fairly and impartially selected of the age aforesaid, by the said judges, with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such persons, and without the least reference Certificate. to their political opinion; and of the names of such persons, when so selected, a list shall be made, and a certificate thereto appended by the said judges, that said list of names has been duly selected in conformity with and according to the spirit and intent of this act; and which said lists and certificates shall be filed with the clerks of the said courts, and by them preserved as other proceedings of the said court are kept. In force and approved March 30, 1868. 1868, c. 443 amends this article by adding thereto the following sections: 1868, c. 443. How execution SEC. 66. Hereafter no execution issued upon a judgmade a lien on ment rendered by any of the justices of the peace within real or lease hold estate. Costs. any of the counties of this state, or in the city of Baltimore, and levied upon any real estate or leasehold property of the defendant in such judgment, shall be a lien upon the real estate or leasehold property upon which it is so levied, unless at or before the time of issuing such execution the plaintiff in such judgment shall file the same with the clerk of the circuit court in which the defendant resides, or with the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if the defendant resides in said city, to be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose, for which he shall receive twenty-five cents in each case, which sum shall be recovered by the plaintiff as part of the costs of his execution. |