214 MARYLAND MANUAL.

Maryland School for the Blind (For White Scholars), 220 East
North Avenue, Baltimore—This institution receives annually $21,000,
for which it admits indigent blind persons of the age of seven years
and upwards, inhabitants of Maryland and of the county or city from
which are recommended by the County Commissioners of the county
or by the judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore city, if the
applicant be a resident of that city. These applications are made to
the Governor, who, after examination to ascertain whether or not
the provisions or the law have been complied with and that the appli-
cant is worthy to be a State beneficiary, issues his warrant of ad-
mission specifying therein the term for which the applicant is ad-
mitted.

Maryland School for the Blind (For Colored Scholars), 649 West
Saratoga Street, Baltimore. Receives from State for maintenance,
$10,000 and $10,000 for buildings lor 1909 and $10,000 for 1910. Ap-
ply to institution for particulars of entrance.

Medical and Chirurgical Faqulty, 847 Hamilton Terrace, Balti-
more—Receives from State for library building, $12,500.

St. Francis Xavier School for Deaf and Dumb White Children, 903
McCulloh Street, Baltimore—Receives from State, $1,000 for 1909 and
$1,000 for 1910. This institution receives deaf mutes whether able to
pay for their maintenance in full, in part or not at all. Address the
institution for particulars of admittance.

St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland—Receives $10,000 for 1909
and $10,000 for 1910, An additional $10,000 for buildings. The Gen-
eral Assembly of the State, by Act of 1872, Chapter 303, and 1879,
Chapter 315, has provided for furnishing board, fuel, lights and
washing to the incumbent of one State scholarship for each Sena-
torial district in the State, to be appointed by the Board of School
Commissioners, by and with the advice and consent of the Senators
in their respective districts after competitive examination. By the
Act of 1894, an additional appropriation to the College provided for
the education of twenty-six State students in addition to the fore-
going, free of expenses for tuition. The Board of Visitors also grants
ten additional scholarships to the above number, making a sum total
of sixty-two scholarships providing free tuition. These scholarships
are awarded as follows: Twenty-six State Senatorial scholarships
by the Board of School Commissioners, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senators in their respective districts. Twenty-six
State scholarships are distributed among the counties of Maryland,
in order of priority of application, either, first, by the appointment of
the Board of School Commissioners; or in the event second, of no
candidate being selected by them, by the Board of Visitors and Gov-
ernors of the college; or third, by the President of St. John's Col-
lege. The balance of the tuition scholarships are given to deserving
students, residents of Maryland, by the Board of Visitors and Gov-
ernors, at a meeting which shall be held after the opening of the col-
lege session, and after due notice of vacancies has been advertised
by them in the daily journals. There are also (15) fifteen Founda-
tion scholarships providing free tuition, awarded by the Board of
Visitors and Governors to deserving youth, resident in the city of
Annapolis, Md.

St. Mary's Female Seminary, Leonardtown, St. Mary's County,
Marl/land—Receives from State, $4,500 for 1909 and. $4,500 for 1910.
This institution furnishes twenty-nine scholarships, with board, light,
heat, laundry, books, tuition in the course leading to graduation,