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neither such person, or his or her parents or guardian is possessed
of means to pay for such instruction, then it shall be the further
duty of the mayor and city council of Baltimore aforesaid, to
certify the same to the governor of this State.

1865, ch. 68. 1870, ch. 478.

247. On receiving the certificate 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 education of the deaf and dumb,
located at Frederick, 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 the 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 State 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;
provided further, that the governor shall dispose of applications
in behalf of deaf and dumb persons, under the provisions of this
sub-title 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.

1868, ch. 205.

248. A sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars shall be
and is hereby annually appropriated, to be applied, under the
direction of the governor, in placing for instruction in the Mary-
land institution for the instruction 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 recom-