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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 teachable age, and is endowed with capacity to
receive instruction, and that neither person, or 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 Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore aforesaid to certify the same to the
Governor of this State.

396. 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 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 applica-
tions in behalf of deaf and dumb persons, under the provisions
of this sub-division 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 ac-
tion upon the excess until vacancies occur, or further provision
be made by the General Assembly.

397. A sum not exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars
shall be and is hereby annually appropriated, to be applied, un-