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DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.

[ART. 30

ARTICLE XXX.

DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.

1. Certificate as to deaf and dumb from county commissioners or mayor and city council of Baltimore to governor. 2. Duty of governor upon receipt of certificate. 3. Amount of annual appropriation for such Instruction. 4. What recommendation shall state. 5. Limit of annual payment for one. 6. Governor to report to general assem- bly. 7. Powers of directors of institution for the blind.

Commission for Improving Condition of Blind. 8. Appointment. 9. List of blind persons. 10. Aid. Workshop for Blind. 11. Establishment. 12. Trustees — terms and vacancies. 13. Powers of trustees; admission to workshop; profits; quarters.

1904, art. 30, sec. 1. 1888, art. 30, sec. 1. 1860, art. 33, sec. 1. 1860, ch. 129, sec. 1.
1. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the several
counties of this State and of the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
on application of any parent, guardian or next friend (provided, such
parent, guardian and next friend has been a bona fide citizen of this
State for at 'least two years previous to such application) of any deaf
and dumb person of teachable age and capacity, not exceeding the age
of twenty-one years, to inquire into the age and capacity of said deaf
and dumb person, and also into the ability of such person, his or her
parent or guardian to pay the expense of his or her education; and if
satisfied by evidence produced that such person is of teachable age and
is endowed with capacity to receive instruction, and that neither such
person, nor his or her parents or guardian is or are 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,
to certify the same to the governor.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 30, sec. 2. 1860, art. 33, sec. 2. 1860, ch. 129, sec. 2.

1865, ch. 68.

2. On receiving the certificate of the county commissioners or of
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 Maryland institute for the deaf and dumb, located at
Frederick, for a term not exceeding seven years; and it shall be the
further duty of the governor, on the certificate of the president of said
institution that such deaf and dumb person has been taught at said
institution, to order the comptroller of the treasury to draw his warrant