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EDUCATION OF DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND. [ART. 28.

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, his or
her parents or guardian, is possessed of means to pay for such in-
struction, then it shall be the further duty of the county commis-
sioners, or of the mayor and city council of Baltimore aforesaid, to
certify the same to the governor of this State.

1865, c 68,
1870, c 478.
Duty of
governor.

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

1870, c 422
Deaf and Dumb
Asylum
41 Md 33, 42
Md 480

dumb person in the Maryland Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, lo-
cated at Frederick, Maryland, for a term not exceeding seven years;
and it shall be the further duty of the governor, on the certificate of
the president of the 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

Appropriations

hundred dollars per annum, for each deaf and dumb person taught
in pursuance of his authority at said institution, payable to the presi-
dent 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
inclined in transporting and returning said deaf and dumb person;

Provisos

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

Applications

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 ex-
cess until vacancies occur, or further provision be made by the Gen-
eral Assembly.

1868, c 205
Annual appro-
priation for in-
digent blind

3. A sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, shall be annu-
ally appropriated to be applied, under the direction of the governor,
in placing for instruction in the Maryland Institution for the In-
struction of the Blind, such indigent blind persons, of the age of nine
years and upwards, inhabitants of this State and the county or city
from which they are recommended, as may be duly recommended

By whom
recommended

to the governor by the county commissioners of each county, and by
the judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City.

Art 33, s 4
1849, c 209, s 1
What recom-
mendation to
State.

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

1865, c 75
Yearly amount.

Term of
Instruction.

5. The amount per annum paid for any one individual, shall not
exceed the sum of three hundred dollars, nor the term of instruc-
tion eight years.