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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tion, free of charge, who present a certificate of
the orphans' court or county commissioners of
the city or county in which such person resides,
that they, their parents or guardians, are unable
to educate or support them, and in all other
cases they are hereby permitted to charge a sum
per annum not exceeding two hundred and fifty
dollars.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said visitors

Who to give
bond.

shall require bonds from all officers entrusted
with the receipt or disbursement of money, to be
executed with such security and with such con-
ditions as the said visitors shall prescribe and
approve.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the sum of
ten thousand dollars to be used for the purchase

Amount ap-
propriated.

of land, the erection of the building hereinafter
provided for, and to be paid on and after the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, be and is hereby appropriated to be
drawn out of the treasury in the mode prescribed
by law, and to be paid by the treasurer of this
state to the said visitors, to be applied by them
in the payment of the purchase money for the
land required for the erection of buildings and.
uses of said institution, for the erection and the
furnishing of such buildings, provided the said
visitors, or a majority of them, shall execute a
bond in such penalty as the treasurer of the
state shall prescribe, for the due and faithful
application of the funds so appropriated by this
section.
SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the sum of five
thousand dollars (or so much thereof as may be

Whom to be
paid to.

required) per annum is hereby appropriated for
the use of said asylum and training school, to be
paid to the said visitors for the support and
maintenance thereof, until the capital received
by donations and legacies shall amount to the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars, at which
time such annual appropriation shall cease, pro-
vided that until the institution receives the
feeble-minded of the state no part of the above
amount shall be paid.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said visi-

Visitors to in-
vest funds.

tors shall invest the funds arising from dona-
tions and legacies not necessary for the support