980 DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND. [ART. 30

for such instruction, then it shall be the further duty of the
county commissioners, or of the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, to certify the same to the governor.

1888, art. 30, sec. 2. 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 exceed-
ing seven years; and it shall be the further duty of the gov-
ernor, on the certificate of the president of said institution
that such deaf and dumb person has been taught at said insti-
tution, 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 treas-
urer 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
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
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.

Ibid sec. 3. 1860, art. 33, sec. 3. 1849, ch, 209, sec. 1. 1854, sec. 224.
1868, ch 205 1886, ch. 278. 1892, ch. 272.

3. A sum not exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars shall
be annually appropriated to be applied under the direction of
the governor in placing for instruction in the Maryland school
for the blind, formerly known as the Maryland institution for
the instruction of the blind, such indigent blind persons of
the age of seven years and upwards, inhabitants of this State
and of the county or city from which they are recommended,
as may be recommended to the governor by the county com-