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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-
troller of the treasury to draw his warrant on the treasurer of this State for
two hundred dollars per annum for each deaf and dumb person taught in
pursuance of his authority at said institution, payable to the president
thereof, in quarterly payments, on the first days of January, April, July
and October in each year; and the governor shall also order the comptroller
of the treasury to 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, that the whole amount drawn from
the treasury for the purposes aforesaid shall not exceed seven thousand
five hundred dollars in any one year; provided, further, that the governor
shall dispose of applications in 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 appropria-
tion, he shall suspend the action upon the excess until vacancies occur, or
further provision be made by the general assembly.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 4. 1912, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1849, ch. 209, sec. 1.

3. The recommendation shall state that such blind persons are in such
indigent circumstances as to be unable from their own resources or those of
their parents to obtain instruction, and are of good natural capacity.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, sec. 5. 1849, ch. 209, sec. 1.
1865, ch. 75. 1886, ch. 278. 1912, ch. 200.

4. The amount per annum paid for any one individual shall not exceed
the sum of three hundred and fifty ($350.00) dollars.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 8. 1874, ch. 236.

5. The directors of the Maryland institution for the instruction of the
blind are authorized and empowered to apply such portion of their endow-
ment fund and annual income as they may deem expedient to establish
work-shops and to open a store for the sale of articles manufactured by the
blind, and to extend the benefits of such work-shops and store to the adult
blind of this State not resident in the institution, on such terms and under
such regulations as they may prescribe.

Workshop and School for Blind.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 11. 1912, sec. 11. 1908, ch. 566.

6. There shall be maintained in Baltimore City, Maryland, a workshop
for the blind.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 12. 1912, sec. 12. 1908, ch. 566.

7. General supervision and control of said workshop shall be vested
in a board of five trustees, three of whom shall be appointed by the governor,
by and with the advice of the senate, and two shall be elected by the board
of directors of the Maryland School for the Blind; and the term of the
members of said board shall be for a period of two years from the date
of their appointment, or until their successors shall have been appointed and
qualified, and whenever a vacancy shall occur on said board it shall be filled
for the unexpired term by vote of the said members of the board remaining.