DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND. 1197

ARTICLE 30.

DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.1

1. Certificate as to deaf and dumb from county commissioners or mayor and city council of Baltimore to gov- ernor. 2. Duty of governor upon receipt of cer- tificate. 3. Annual appropriation for blind. 4. What recommendation shall state. 5. Limit of appropriatioa for each indi- vidual. 6. Governor to report to general assembly. 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 and School for Blind. 11. Establishment. 12. Trustees — terms and vacancies. 13. Powers of trustees; admission to work- shop; profits; quarters. 14. Payments by City of Baltimore and Counties.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, 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 comp-

1 Act of 1916, ch. 76, changes the corporate name of the asylum for the deaf and dumb
of this state to " The Maryland State School for the Deaf."