608 DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND—EDUCATION OF. [ART. 30.

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 teach-
able age, and is endowed with capacity to receive instruction, and
that neither such person, his or her parents or guardian, is pos-
sessed 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 aforesaid, to certify the same to the
governor of this State.

P. G. L, (1860,) art. 33, 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 term not exceeding oeven 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 return-
ing 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; pro-
vided, 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 ap-
propriation, he shall suspend the action upon the excess until
vacancies occur, or further provision be made by the general
assembly.