82 DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND—EDUCATION OF. [ART. 33
ARTICLE XXXIII.

Deaf, Dumb, and Blind - Education of.

Chapter 68 amends section 2, as follows:

SEC. 1. On receiving the certificate of the County Commis-
sioners, 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 Columbia
Institution for the deaf and dumb, 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 Comptroller 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 Trea-
sury, 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 appropriation, he shall
suspend the action upon the excess until vacancies occur, or
further provision be made by the General Assembly.

2. The yearly rate per capita, for the instruction of deaf and
dumb persons, as provided for in the foregoing section, shall be
allowed during the period for which payment will become due
on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.