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Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
it shall be, and is hereby made the duty of the levy courts, and
the county commissioners of the several counties of this state,
and of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, to inquire into
and make a return on the first Monday in May annually, of the
names of all the indigent deaf and dumb white persons, of
sound mind, in their respective counties and city, from twelve
to twenty-five years of age, to the governor of this state, who
is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the
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Levy court
directed.
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treasurer of the western shore for a sum not exceeding one
hundred and sixty dollars, for each of the said persons whose
parent, guardian, or other person having the care of the same,
shall permit to be removed to the Pennsylvania institution for
the deaf and dumb, to be there educated; one-half of the said
sum to be paid to the president of said institution at the expira-
tion of the term of six months, and the other at the end of the
year in which any indigent pupil from this state, shall have
been instructed, and the governor shall have power to draw on
the said treasurer for the expenses necessarily incurred in trans-
porting and returning the said persons: Provided, that the sum
so to be drawn from the treasury, shall in no one year exceed
the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars: And provided
also, that no one scholar shall be taught at the expense of the
state, more than five years: And provided further, that each
county returning deaf and dumb persons under the conditions
of this act, shall be entitled to have at least one person sent to
said institution ; and in the event of the levy court or county
commissioners of any one or more of the counties, or the mayor
and city council, returning no person coming within the limits
of this act, then it shall be the duty of the governor to select
one deaf and dumb person from the city of Baltimore, or the
county of this state, whose levy court, county commissioners,
or mayor and city council, shall return the largest number of
deaf and dumb indigent white persons within the provisions of
this act, who shall be sent to said institution for instruction, and
so on to the county returning next largest number, until the
number of twenty deaf and dumb indigent white persons shall
have been completed, if so many be returned by the several
levy courts, county commissioners, or mayor and city council,
to the governor of this state.
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Governor
empowered
to draw on
treasurur—
conditions;
directions.
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