DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND

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ARTICLE 30.

DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.¹

	1. Certificate as to deaf and dumb from	Public Assistance for Needy Blind.
	county' commissioners or mayor and	12. Definitions.
	city council of Baltimore to gov-	13. Duties of State Board.
	ernor. 2. Duty of governor upon receipt of cer- tificate.	14. Duties of County Board. 15. Eligibility for assistance.
	3. What recommendation shall state.	16. Amount of assistance.
	4. Limit of appropriation for each indi-	17. Application.
	vidual.	18-19. Investigation; granting assistance.
	5. Powers of directors of institution for	20. Payments.
	the blind.	21. Funeral expenses.
		22. Not assignable.
	Workshop and School for Blind.	23. Appeal.
	6. Establishment.	24. Reconsideration; changes.
	7. Trustees — terms and vacancies.	25-26. Recovery from recipient or estate.
	8. Powers of trustees; admission to work-	27. Removal.
	shop; profits; quarters.	28. Appropriation.
	9. Payments by City of Baltimore and	29. Fees.
	Counties.	30. Records.
	10-11. Licenses for vending stands in public	31. Fraudulent acts.
	buildings.	32. Invalidity of any provision.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 2. 1912, 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

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."