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ment of diseases of the eye that any person or persons making such claims,
or then on such lists, might have such disability benefited or removed by
proper surgical operation, or medical treatment, and if such person entitled
to such relief files his consent in writing thereto, then the Maryland Work-
shop for the Blind may order expended for the purpose of such surgical
or medical treatment all or any portion of the relief, which it may award
to such person for one year under the provisions of this sub-title.

1929, ch. 271, sec. 23.

23. The Maryland Workshop for the Blind shall have the authority to
make, when it sees fit, definite recommendations, as to the amount of the
relief, which, in its judgment, any applicant should receive; to grant relief
to any applicant in excess of two hundred and fifty dollars per year, and
not exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars per year, provided that the
total amount granted any man and wife for one year shall not exceed three
hundred and fifty dollars unless such man or wife shall not have been blind
at the time of their marriage, or unless they shall have been married prior
to the passage of this Act; and to require the County Commisisoners to
submit to them from time to time any information which they possess
which may be necessary for the proper administration of the office. It shall
be the duty of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind to keep on file a rec-
ord of all applicants for blind relief with a report of their eye examination
and a detailed statement of the grounds upon which relief was granted or
refused. ¹

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 271 of the acts of 1929 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.