DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND 1345

An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1912, sec. 13. 1908, ch. 566.

8. Said board of trustees shall constitute a body corporate under the
name and style of "The Maryland Workshop for the Blind," with the right
to acquire and hold property, real, personal and mixed, in any manner what-
soever ; to sue and be sued, and to make and use a common seal, with the
right to alter and change the same at any time. The board shall organize
immediately upon its appointment and qualification, and elect one of its
members chairman and another as treasurer. It shall also have the power
to elect any of its members to serve as chairman, whenever it is inconvenient
or impossible for the regularly elected chairman to serve. It is also em-
powered to hire a secretary and other necessary employees, and to fix their
compensation. Said workshop shall be open for the labor and manufactures
of all blind citizens of Maryland over eighteen years of age, who can give
satisfactory evidences of character and of their ability to do the work
required of them. All the profits arising from the operation of the shop
shall be used in furthering its usefulness. Said board shall acquire suitable
quarters by lease, purchase or otherwise in Baltimore City, aforesaid, and
shall have full power to establish, maintain, direct and supervise all matters
pertaining to the workshop, its maintenance and regulation, including the
purchase of all machinery and materials as may seem to them suitable and
necessary, and the barter or exchange of articles or manufactures entrusted
to them for disposal.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1924, ch. 376.

9. For each blind or colored deaf minor committed to the care and edu-
cation of the Maryland School for the Blind, from the City of Baltimore or
any one of the Counties in the State, the said city or county, as the case
may be, shall as herein specified, pay to the Maryland School for the Blind
the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars per annum for the care and
education of such blind minor or colored deaf minor. The expenses for the
care and education of all blind minors or colored deaf minors in The Mary-
land School for the Blind, shall be a charge upon each county and City of
Baltimore committing such blind or colored deaf minors to The Maryland
School for the Blind, as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the
Board of Directors of The Maryland School for the Blind to furnish to
each county treasurer, and to the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore hav-
ing blind or colored deaf minors committed to The Maryland School for the
Blind, a quarterly statement giving the number of such blind or colored
deaf minors; and the name of each from and charged to such county or the
City of Baltimore, as the case may be, and the cost of maintenance and
education due from said county and the City of Baltimore for such blind
or colored deaf minor.

The Board of County Commissioners of each county, and the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore are hereby authorized and required to levy
annually upon the assessable property of each of said counties and said
city respectively, an amount equal to two hundred ($200.00) dollars for
each blind minor or colored deaf minor committed to the care and education
of The Maryland School for the Blind from said counties and said city, as
the case may be.

The total amount of annual tax levied by the said counties and said city
shall not be less than a sum sufficient to provide for the number of blind and
colored deaf minors committed from said counties or said city based upon
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