A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 103

CHAPTER 68.
AN ACT to amend and re-enact section two of article thirty-three of the Code of Public Gen- eral Laws, relating to the education of the Deaf and Dumb.	Passed March 21, 1865.
SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That section two of article thirty- three of the Code of Public General Laws, relating to the educating of the Deaf and Dumb, be and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :	Section amen- ded and re-en- acted.
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 Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 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 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, pay- able to the President, thereof, in quarterly pay- ments, 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 pro- per party, for the expenses necessarily incurred in	Duty of the Governor.
transporting and returning said deaf and dumb person; provided, that the whole amount drawn from the Treasury, for the pur poses 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 ac- tion upon the excess until vacancies occur, or fur- ther provision be made by the General Assembly	Provisos.