256 DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND—EDUCATION OF. [ART. 33.

person is of teachable age, and is endowed with capacity to receive
instruction, and that neither such person, his or her parents or
guardian, is possessed of means to pay for such instruction, then
it shall be the further duty of the county commissioners, or of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore aforesaid, to- certify
the same to the Governor of this State.

2*. On receiving the certificate of the county commissioners
or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore as aforesaid, it shall
be the duty of the Governor to authorize the instruction of said
deaf and dumb person in the Pennsylvania Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb, or in the Columbian Institution for the Instruc-
tion of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, at the option of such
person, his or her parents, guardian or next friend, for a term
not exceeding seven years; and it shall be the further duty of
the Governor, on the certificate of the president or superintend-
ent of either of said institutions, as the case may be, that such
deaf and dumb person has been taught at his institution, to draw
his warrant on the Treasurer of this State, for one hundred and
sixty dollars per annum for each deaf and dumb person taught
in pursuance of his authority at said institution, payable to the
president or superintendent thereof, in semi-annual payments,
to commence in six months after said person shall be received
into said institution; and the Governor shall also draw on the
Treasurer his warrant, payable to the proper party, for the
expenses necessarily incurred in transporting and returning said
deaf and dumb person: Provided, the whole amount drawn from
the treasury for the purposes aforesaid shall not exceed five
thousand dollars in any one year; Provided, further, that the
Governor shall dispose of applications on behalf of deaf and
dumb persons, under the provisions of this article, in the order
in which they may be made, and. if the applications be more
than sufficient to absorb the foregoing appropriation, he shall
suspend action upon the excess until vacancies occur or further
provision be made by the General Assembly.

INDIGENT BLIND.

3. A sum not exceeding six thousand dollars, shall be annually
appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the Governor
in placing for instruction in the Maryland Institution for the In-
struction of the Blind, or in some convenient institution esta-
blished for that purpose, such indigent blind persons of the age
of nine years and upwards, inhabitants of this State, and the